1st class delivery - For just £4.99 per order, we will send your products by Royal Mail 1st Class. We aim to dispatch your parcel on the same day if the order is received before 12pm excluding weekends and Bank Holidays. We apologise but this service is currently only to Mainland UK. *Please note that there is no tracking available for this service. Royal Mail aim to deliver within 1-2 days but this is not guaranteed.
2nd class delivery - For just £3.99 per order, we will send your products by Royal Mail 2nd Class. We aim to dispatch your parcel on the same day if the order is received before 12pm excluding weekends and Bank Holidays. We apologise but this service is currently only to Mainland UK. *Please note that there is no tracking available for this service. Royal Mail aim to deliver within 2-3 days but this is not guaranteed.
Next Day delivery - (Monday to Friday) we will send your products by Evri courier service. We aim to dispatch your parcel on the same day if the order is received before 12pm excluding weekends and Bank Holidays. We apologise but this service is currently only to Mainland UK. If you require tracking details please contact [email protected]. This service isn't available when ordering swimming awards.
*If ordering Gift Vouchers, please note that these are sent via email only as soon as you place your order. Free delivery is automatically assigned to your order if this is the only product in your basket.
Free 'Swim Awards' delivery - If you are ordering swim badges & certificates from your 'My Puddle Ducks' page or via 'Backdated swim badges & certificates' from the shop, your postage will be totally free (using Royal Mail 2nd class). This will be automatically assigned to your order if these are the only products in your basket, there is no need to select a postage type. Please note that we ask you to allow 10 working days to receive your swim awards. If you order other products in addition to the swim awards these will be sent separately using the postage type selected.
General delivery information - Once an order has been placed you will receive a confirmation email from us which acknowledges your order and provides full details for you to check. A dispatch confirmation email will then be sent to you in due course. Your order may be dispatched in several packages as some of our products are stocked at different locations. Please note that until you receive the dispatch confirmation email your order has not been officially accepted by us and could be cancelled if mistakes are found. We therefore strongly advise you to check the details of your order acknowledgement email immediately upon receipt and contact us if any amendments are required. Any products that are not listed on your dispatch confirmation email can be taken to be unavailable and will not be charged to you.
For orders sent via DPD: Once your order has been dispatched you will receive a one hour delivery time-slot from DPD via SMS text message (if you have provided us with your mobile number) or email. You will then be able to:
- Nominate a ‘Safe place’ for your parcel to be left i.e in your porch, if you are not going to be in.
- Arrange for your parcel to be delivered to your nearest DPD Pickup point/depot. This can even be done while your parcel is 'in-flight' i.e out for delivery!
- Reschedule your delivery.
- Track the progress of your parcel on a map as the driver makes their way to your address, counting down to a 15 minute window.
- See the position of your delivery in the driver's overall delivery queue.
- See your parcel's tracking history.
- Upgrade your delivery to a DPD premium service such as Saturday or Sunday delivery or arriving before a specified time (NOTE: (i) you will incur extra charges for these services which are to be paid by yourself direct to DPD; and (ii) if you choose to upgrade we will not be liable for any refund of these additional charges if you change your mind.)
Find out more about our DPD Local delivery service.
Please be aware that we will not be liable if a parcel goes missing once it has been left in your designated safe place (in the case of our Next Day delivery option).
If you are not in when the courier driver/postman arrives and no safe place has been designated (in the case of our Next Day delivery service only), they will attempt to leave the parcel with a neighbour. They will leave a calling card and you will be sent a notification with the details of the neighbour's house name or number. If they are unable to leave the parcel they will provide you with instructions so that you can re-arrange the delivery. Generally two further attempts to deliver will be made. If the parcel then has to be returned to us you will unfortunately be liable for additional re-delivery costs or we will refund the item minus the delivery charges.