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The Book Depository has free worldwide shipping and their books are often a tiny bit cheaper than Amazon UK. Also useful when a book you want is out of stock on Amazon. (Their prices as an Amazon Marketplace seller is higher than the prices listed on their own site. I'm guessing that's because Amazon takes a cut of the profits.)

Also, I was looking at Spin: Repackaged on Amazon. I already have the Spin CD since it came out years ago, but didn't realise there was another version with a second disc that has tracks from live recordings. Seeing as it's Darren Hayes and he's better live than recorded and the CD is only £2.98, I thought I should get it... but then there was a problem. Amazon's free shipping starts at £5, and a £2.98 CD plus shipping would make it oh, £4.50? So I looked around to find something roughly £2.02 to buy instead and... didn't find any.

And then I remembered HMV. 8D It turns out they have free shipping on everything and they sell the CD for £2.99, one whole penny more expensive.

♪ There's life outside ~~your apartment~~ Amazon ♫ *hums to the Avenue Q song*

Sometimes I wonder. People blame email and other technology for the postal service's troubles. Sure, people probably don't write letter so much anymore, but we have many more businesses these days and also do so much online shopping, which didn't exist before. Why can't they just admit that their suckage at management has contributed to their own problems? For example, I'd be willing to use ParcelForce a lot more if they actually have decent customer service. Instead I look for alternative ways to get stuff sent to me and avoid using ParcelForce to send my own stuff out, opting for DHL and FedEx instead. The only company that's as bad or worse than ParcelForce is probably City Link...