The first step is to choose the contents of your basket, at Abc Baby Gifts we offer you the choice of lots of ready made baby gift baskets such as our best selling ‘Deluxe’ or our ever popular ‘Beautiful’ baskets, or you can ‘create your own’ this means you can pick exactly what goes into your basket.

Whichever basket you choose you can be sure we will make it look beautiful. We take the items you choose and after filling a wicker basket with white shredded paper we nestle them snugly in the basket and sprinkle with confetti. The next step is to shrink wrap the basket, this is to keep everything from moving around and then we wrap the basket in cellophane, tie it up with a big bow in the appropriate colour and add lots of curled ribbon. The pefect baby gift to send to anyone!

So, they lost another one today. I phoned the local delivery office in Tottenham, London to see if the baby gift basket was there and after a short conversation the very rude member of Royal Mail staff put the phone down on me. Poor customer service again by Royal Mail. Why should we pay them our hard earned money. If they don’t lose your item, they damage it!

A new problem has developed now, no ‘sorry we missed you’ card is left after a delivery is attempted. Or was the delivery attempted in the first place?
I could go on and on, but I don’t want to waste anymore time talking about Royal Mail, they have taken up enough of my time over the years.

After a little research I decided to go with Interlink Express. Their customer service is great and they do care about you and your parcels. They also text and /or email the customer on the morning of delivery notifying them of a one hour delivery window. The customer also receives a message with telling them ‘your parcel will be delivered between 10am  – 11am’. You can also call them to change the time or day.

This one hour delivery window is unique to Interlink Express and was a deciding factor for me. Of course I still need Royal Mail for letters, small packets and deliveries to small British Islands around the United Kingdom.  Interlink Express pricing is £5 for up to 10 Kilo which is great. But northern Scotland and non mainland UK areas get pricey at £16 for 10 Kilo. So some items will have to go with Royal Mail still.

So far so good, all baby gifts have been delivered and we are happy at Abc Baby Gifts again.

The twin baby gift basket was showing the wrong first tooth keepsake box.

The new mum basket was not showing the new baby soap.

The Christening gift basket had the wrong photo frame.

All fixed today. I took the photos during the week in our lighting cube using our Cannon SLR and did the editing on Adobe Fireworks as normal.

‘Such little choice on Dover’s deserted high street so thank goodness for abcbabygifts. All the time friends keep popping out babies i’ll keep coming back. Great choice of quality gifts, beautifully gift wrapped and an efficient friendly service…. good value is hard to come by these days but abcbabygifts manage to deliver without disappointment every time!!!! Hope to see you open a baby boutique on the high street one day!!!’

As always, we like to try and support our local businesses first, our stationary and boxes come from Puckles Supplies in Canterbury and our soft toys and teddies are from Keel Toys in Ashford.
So it seems we may have to look further afield for a frame at the right cost as in the current climate customers just don’t want to pay the high prices that local manufacture costs. China may be a possibility.