I’m buying as much as possible from local retail businesses (the non-essential ones) who offer click and collect. They’ve been going through extraordinarily difficult times, so it’s good for them and and good for me.
Some of the big name stores warn of significant click-and-collect delays. There was a 2-day delay on being able to pick up the paint I’d ordered from one local Bunnings store, and 5 days’ delay on being able to pick up the paint roller, brushes, extension poles, scrapers, filler, putty knife, builder’s bog, gloves to protect against toxic stuff, etc from another local Bunnings (which had all of the stuff in stock). (A lot of repainting and so on after tenants moved out from unit…) That contrasted with the no-delay pick-up from Sydney Tools (masks to protect against noxious fumes, goggles ditto, electric sander) and Mitre 10 (protective padded gloves after I’d already knocked and scraped skin off my knuckles and hands in general with scraping off old paint from walls, and extra drop cloths), and then back to Sydney stools for one of those Gorilla work platforms so that I can sand the failed paint bits off the ceilings.
I’ve also received some posted items from QLD and SA and NSW. These express parcels are taking roughly a week to arrive, which I think is very good in the circumstances.
In other buying / post updates, I’ve sprinkled salt in our letterbox. We’ll see if the mail-eating snails like that. They’ve been winning the war thus far…
