Uygar from AOP
Mar 23, 2020
COVID-19 Updates
Immediate service disruption
Hello all
As many of you will have heard on the news*, due to fears about the spreading of the latest variant of coronavirus, travel links between the United Kingdom and several EU countries including France have been suspended. Ferry ports, as well as the Eurotunnel service, have been closed.
Several countries have already suspended air traffic from the UK (Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Turkey and Canada amongst the latest).
This has an immediate impact on postal services between both the UK and all other continental destinations.
As a consequence, Many Postal Services (DHL, UPS, DPD etc.) suspended their services to Europe effective immediately until the situation is resolved.
We expect this to be within 48 hours.
From the UK to the USA, deliveries look okay at the moment, and if there is any update, we will inform you immediately.
On AOP+ side, we all healthy and safe, and we have so many beers in the fridge. Current lockdown in London did not affect the production of AOP. Everything is going smoothly on our side, and we will be working till the 24th of December. Our holidays manufacturing schedule will be announced during the week.
Loves from the Lonely and Infected Island.
Uygar and AOP+ Team.
You can follow updates on;
AOP Blog: https://blog.aop.plus/covid-19/
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/alloverprint
or send email to AOP Support: https://aop.plus/help
Stay Safe.
Business as usual.
UK Government announced a new national lockdown across the UK on Saturday, after a rapid rise in coronavirus cases.
The new measures will come into effect on Thursday 5 November and will last until Wednesday 2 December. The new measures will apply nationally for four weeks up to Wednesday 2 December. At the end of the period, they will look to return to a regional approach, based on the latest data.
Under the new restrictions, manufacturing workplaces can remain open. So AOP will continue their operations as usual. We are not expecting any delays on supply chain and manufacturing will keep going as usual. We are having the busiest Q4 in AOP’s history and we will keep helping our users in those hard times too.
We’ve introduced further changes to our operations and procedures in order to provide the best possible service we can whilst continuing to protect our staff in-line with guidelines on social distancing. We will monitor all updates and inform users if anything changes.
You can follow updates on;
AOP Blog: https://blog.aop.plus/covid-19/
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/alloverprint
or send email to AOP Support: https://aop.plus/help
Stay Safe.
Masks are ready to go
Thanks for your great interest to our Fashion Face Face Masks. In a shirt time, we have prepared all blanks and they are in printing at the moment. All we are waiting is FILTERS from manufacturer. They had been post and on the way to the UK. Once they are in (We are expecting this week) they will be start going out. Remember, there is so many delays in supply chain and postal services. That effects to everyone, not only us and all other POD companies too.
For the rest of the products please follow the Spreadsheet below.
List of products and delay times: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ZGplJWBcjRX7orhsSVutL7Y2HqzlFiBGQm2jeeJGcE/edit#gid=0
Some good news!
Some of our suppliers decided to open one or two times per week. Which is great news. Please check link below to see updated Product Delay Times File.
Please check the updated product list and delay times for those products. Once our suppliers are open again we will update the list and will let you know. AOP HQ is still open and we will continue our production till stock lasts.
List of products and delay times: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ZGplJWBcjRX7orhsSVutL7Y2HqzlFiBGQm2jeeJGcE/edit#gid=0
Coronavirus pandemic spreading in the UK.
AOP+ has 125 products with tens of thousands different variants in its catalogue and as you may already know we are able to offer this many products by our flexible supply capabilities, we have many suppliers that would send what we need the next day and some of the products are unique to one supplier. Unfortunately by this week some of them closed until further notice. We stocked up on the most popular items yet short to long term delays are expected in the future.
Please check the updated product list and delay times for those products. Once our suppliers are open again we will update the list and will let you know. AOP HQ is still open and we will continue our production till stock lasts.
List of products and delay times: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ZGplJWBcjRX7orhsSVutL7Y2HqzlFiBGQm2jeeJGcE/edit#gid=0
First of all, we hope you, your family and loved ones are healthy and safe.
Coronavirus is affecting everybody in every way of life and we decided to give our users an update.
Production and Dispatch time;
So far AOP+ team is healthy, following the advice of public health experts, paying extra attention to hygiene and carry on processing your orders.
We will practice minimising the amount of people working at the same time in the office for the next weeks. We will keep the production in the projected time of 1-3 work days for the ready made products, yet 24-48hr delays may occur.
The cut and sew products as listed below are subject to delays due to our cut and sew partner is stopping their production. We will try to send the orders in bulk, yet we cannot give a precise production time since we have to accumulate a number of orders to make them open their workshop. For more info please contact [email protected]
Supply and Stock;
There hasn’t been any disruption to our stock deliveries and we carry on receiving our needed supply on time.
AOP+ Partners;
As mentioned above there will be delays with the cut and sew products (listed above) due to our partner closing the workshop.
The phone case printing and US dispatch partners and there hasn’t been any disruptions or warnings of delay so far.
Shipment and Dispatch time;
We closely monitor updates from our main shipping companies, delivery option is not affected in most countries, even though some countries closed their borders to outside, this covers people, not the goods, they still go through the customs.
USPS;
AOP+ uses USPS for all US destinations and The US POstal Services states that they have experienced only minor operational impacts in the United States as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and they haven’t noted any disruptions to the deliveries in the US.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/usps-statement-on-coronavirus.htm
DPD;
AOP+ use DPD for destinations in France and Germany and they published in their bulletin that their operations continue in both countries however delays may be expected in both Germany and France since the country’s own postal services try to operate with minimum amount of workers as a safety precaution.
https://www.dpd.co.uk/content/products_services/service_updates.jsp
Royal Mail;
We use Royal Mail for the Rest of the Europe, UK and Rest of the World. They continue to provide a service to all European countries however delays are expected due to the countries authorities applying special orders.
Royal Mail’s main approach is not asking the recipient’s signature as stated below;
“Due to the current coronavirus situation Royal Mail are no longer asking recipient’s to sign for items delivered on or after Saturday 14 March 2020. We will still capture the recipient’s name and confirmation of delivery which can be viewed at www.royalmail.com/track-your-item.”
There are some countries that have been affected more than others, to see Royal Mail’s country by country updates please check here.
These are the updates from our couriers and some delay is expected due to safety measures.
All in all everything all operations continue as usual except the cut and sew production delays in AOP+, we monitor the situation closely and will update you when there is a change.
We will survive this madness together, stay safe, try to self isolate and wash your hands!
