Recently, I’ve seemed to have become a second jobber as a postal servicewoman. I have friends from USA, Canada and Hong Kong asking me to purchase stuff for them and sending it out to them. Them lamenting about not having a Topshop pair of patent flats just really tugs my heart strings. Having assessed that a majority of items that I feature here will be from shops in the UK who don’t ship internationally, I have decided to offer my second jobbing services as a postal worker to anyone who asks. Instead of forking out a monthly fee for a postal forwarding address, just e-mail me if you would like to buy something from say, Topshop or Office or if there’s an item that is only available in shops here.
Since I work in Central London and shop regularly, I might as well shop for my lovely blog-readers too. Nobody needs to be in fashion Siberia! Here’s how it will work (which is how I do it with my friends too):
1) You peeps email me your request.
2) I will work out shipping costs and figure out the availability of the item. Unlike some Ebay sellers who rip people off by marking up shipping costs, I will be scanning receipts of postal costs for you guys.
3) You guys Paypal me the money. (Unfortunately, with my pittance junior advertising exec wage, I can’t pay for your stuff first. You’re just gonna have to treat me like an Ebay seller!)
4) I will buy it online or in the shop and send it onto you. I get parcels delivered at work very promptly so I can usually send it out the day I get it.
Any questions, please email me! I’m doing this as a non-profit thing because I don’t like the idea of people missing out on the goodies that the British high street can offer (likewise, I have to beg my friends to buy stuff for me from Target!)
Hey great idea Susie, helping fashion comrades in need! … I could be pestering you to buy me some stuff from urban outfitters soon, I can’t get their stuff near where I live (even though I live in the UK…. the more fashion siberia part of the UK)…but yeah, great idea, thumbs up!
i think i’ll totally be taking you up on this!
oh, susie that’s so lovely of you! and i don’t even have paypal:p
anyway, i predict this blog will get famous.. and it definitely deserves so…
xxx,
estella
Wow, that’s really nice of you, maybe I’ll do that some day 😉
I loove your style and clothes, so when I found out that you had a blog at tfs, I got really excited 😀
I just know this is going to be one of my fav blogs 🙂
hugs
Hi Susie! I love your blog…and can I just tell you that this is the most fantastically generous offer ever! I may be contacting you…and of course if America offers anything you’d like, I would reciprocate (love Paypal!)
Awww….you guys, thanks for all the blog-loving! And really, it’s no problem at all, it’s not like it costs me anything!
Estella: I’ll be happy enough if just you guys bothered reading my blog!
great idea..im always wanting stuff from topshop!!
That’s so nice of you!!! Guess I’ll probably accept your offer one day… Maybe I’m as fashion magazine addicted as you. Nylon, i-D, british vogue <3 are tooooo expensive in germany. I'd love to make this offer for gemany too, but I guess there's nothing here anyone wants to have 😉
Oh my God, that is so sweet of you! Honestly, you are just about the nicest (and not to mention most fashionable!) blogger ever!!!
Waoo…that’s really nice of u~
since u get to shop a lot in central, u should snap pix of the latest cool outfits or jewellery which are in shop now~ that will be quite intersting to look at coz i don’t get to shop much anymore especially i am in uni 24/7 =(
No need to thank me…thank my oodles and oodles of time spent in Central London and surfing the net at work 😀
Linda: I would like to take lots of snaps of clothes and stuff but some shops are a bit iffy about doing that. Especially in the smaller ones. I’m going to try and blag myself as a journalist to see if I can get some snaps!
i just happened upon your blog and i fell in love with it/you. i’d be happy to do the same for you with the whole trading and what have you…especially since i’ve been craving everything in the uk as of late. =X
cool.. me and my friends abroad do that too…
you are an angel! you are very nice for doing that 🙂
i just went on the topshop website and there are so many things that i want from there.