IRM A Class Now In Production! Here's why you should get your pre-orders in sooner than later...

[Patrick Davey]

[ak425]

 

[murphaph]

Looks like a job lot of communion chalices has arrived 

In all seriousness, it's a pretty big moment for you lads having your first customer locos arrive. Congratulations. The big boys across the water better watch out.

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Warbonnet said:

Can we all rest easy now?

What's in the boxes, I wonder? 

 

7 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Ha!!!!!!

Now THERE'S an idea! The "A Class Jig"!

We have a tune called the "Silver Spear"; shortly, perhaps, the "Silver Locomotive"!

 

[DiveController]

5 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

 "feck ton"  - See that is an official Irish Measurement Value backed up by ISO! 

 

 

I understand it’s an industry term

Edited October 1, 2021 by DiveController

[DiveController]

2 hours ago, Warbonnet said:

Can we all rest easy now?

Hang on, the container is not full! Did they forget to put in the laminate stock?

Edited October 1, 2021 by DiveController

[irishthump]

3 hours ago, Fowler4f said:

Could we have an end of the day update please. Thanks.

Here’s your update. It’s 6pm. That’s pretty much the end of the day.

Stay tuned for further updates….

[DJ Dangerous]

3 hours ago, Warbonnet said:

Can we all rest easy now?

 

How much for them big cushions?

[jhb171achill]

2 hours ago, DiveController said:

Hang on, the container is not full! Did they forget to put in the laminate stock?

No, they've arrived OK along with the GSWR bogie coaches and six-wheelers - they forgot to put in the "A" class locos, though.

[amdaley]

Oh your all very quiet over here.

Oh your all very quiet over here 

[Westcorkrailway]

1 hour ago, amdaley said:

Oh your all very quiet over here.

Oh your all very quiet over here 

Because if we say “this week is the week” an post will go on strike 

[amdaley]

39 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Because if we say “this week is the week” an post will go on strike 

You had to spoil it by mentioning An Post didn't you 

[BosKonay]

'A's far as the eye can see,..,,

 

[Dempsey]

Excellent

[Warbonnet]

Hi everyone,

As per photo above from earlier this morning, pallets currently being broken down and counted into stock. Shipping should commence from Wednesday, all going well. Please note that it will take a number of days to complete shipping, due to the massive amount of pre-orders received and requiring sorting!

Cheers!

Fran 

[Patrick Davey]

Excellent!!!!

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, BosKonay said:

'A's far as the eye can see,..,,

 

I can leak that the customs paperwork lists the contents as follows;

Bottom left pallet: Tupperware containers with panda designs

Centre left: red biros

Far left: tweezers and sewing thread 

Distant left: dog food

Distant right: cat food

Centre right: angling magazines

Near right: Models of “A” class Mercedes cars…..

 

 

 

[Broithe]

I am concerned about the large stack of pallets - it's probably just as well that they didn't arrive in early July...

[Warbonnet]

14 minutes ago, Broithe said:

I am concerned about the large stack of pallets - it's probably just as well that they didn't arrive in early July...

Hallowe'en is just around the corner though... 

[BEANO3005]

20 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

Hallowe'en is just around the corner though... 

Blue pallets too. I hear they are 50-80 squid each. Don't burn them ones.

[Galteemore]

Must have ordered a lot of A class in Larne….

[jhb171achill]

Light green IRM box on the top….

[irishmail]

18 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Because if we say “this week is the week” an post will go on strike 

Don't ship out with An post or they will never get out of Dublin 

[BosKonay]

Deliveries in Ireland will go An Post next day tracked, to Northern Ireland and the UK will ship with Royal Mail 48 hour tracked and the rest of the world will either by AN Post tracked packet service if single locos or DHL if multiple. We hope to start sending out tracking numbers in the next 48 hours 

if you opted for colllection you will need to wait until your order is processed and packed and we send you a barcode for collection.
 

hope that helps!! 

[murphaph]

Oh no more GLS to Germany? I found them excellent the last couple of times. Stuff got here really fast from Dublin. I don't think I've ever received a parcel sent by DHL from Ireland so that'll be something new.

 

[johnfromoz]

Eagerly awaiting my A Class here in Tasmania, hoping that you guys continue to use DHL, as per all my recent orders from you.  Post system here is in crisis, DHL seem to be able to rise above major delays.  
 

if I order another A, to go with my preordered one, can the order be combined with DHL as carrier?

John

[murphaph]

Is it DHL or DHL Express? 

[connollystn]

I'll be using Shanks Mare Express. It's the only delivery service I trust.

[Georgeconna]

54 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Is it DHL or DHL Express? 

You should see the shite I have to deal with from DHL.....Christ...

[skinner75]

DHL = Day & Half Late 

[Bumble_Bee]

Fair play folks its hard these days to decide what carrier to use since they are all so hit and miss sometimes. 

 

 

Although I will say....

 

 

...thank god you's aren't sending with Hermes 

[DiveController]

My shipment of vehicles left Dublin with DHL on September 23 and has been stuck in Miami since September 25. No word from DHL or DHL express, I don’t know what the difference is. This happened on a DHL shipment previously where they just sent it back to IRM without a word. Impossible to find out anything from them. I hope this is not a sign of things to come with my A class shipments

[murphaph]

These delivery companies are products of decades of mergers and takeovers. I think a brand that is good and reliable in one country can be awful in another.

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, skinner75 said:

DHL = Day & Half Late 

That’s like the famous railway company initials…..

SLNCR: Slow, Late & Never Comfortable

DSER: Dirty, Slow & Easy

LLSR: Lazy, Late & Slow

[Broithe]

There can be large regional variations in otherwise 'identical' couriers.

DHL would be my preferred deliverer on the Big Island, by far - Andrej will arrive in the first five minutes of the hour that was predicted, infallibly.

Others are less reliable - I had a delivery, by Yodel, 'to a neighbour' whilst I was exiled on the Western Island - they informed me by email and I forwarded that to the alleged sender, my phone supplier, as I suspected it was a scam - that neighbour actually found it eight weeks later, hidden behind one of my bins. The sender, having initially denied sending me anything, and knowing that I was in exile, then spent two days ringing me on my UK landline and complaining that I wasn't answering (er....), then, finally emailing me and demanding that I tell them what the label said, when I didn't even know who had it - and nobody actually did.