Bank Holiday 5th August
It is a Bank Holiday in Scotland on Monday but as usual, I expect Amazon will have ignored that and treat English Bank Holidays as if they apply to the whole of the UK.
I cannot get an answer from them about this so not sure if they are doing their usual burying their head in the sand and ignoring the fact that the UK is 4 different nations with different Bank Holidays. The August Bank Holiday has always been on a different date in Scotland it has never been the same as England.
Does anyone else know?
Bank Holiday 5th August
It is a Bank Holiday in Scotland on Monday but as usual, I expect Amazon will have ignored that and treat English Bank Holidays as if they apply to the whole of the UK.
I cannot get an answer from them about this so not sure if they are doing their usual burying their head in the sand and ignoring the fact that the UK is 4 different nations with different Bank Holidays. The August Bank Holiday has always been on a different date in Scotland it has never been the same as England.
Does anyone else know?
24 replies
Seller_hC0hNVDuILaKO
I’d treat it as though Amazon will be ignoring the Scottish bank holiday [as most of us do 
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but expect them to respect the English bank holiday at the end of the month [as is right and proper 
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Seller_bhSWqoVh7Pn98
Amazon are very poor, cannot afford decent staff to know how to programme a computer system, I assume!
It is annoying as you say when we ship from England and all shown as late on the metrics on a Scottish Bank Holiday, as they get delivered on Tuesday instead.
If PRIME but on a ‘standard’ or 2-day delivery, then those may be delivered on time. The 1-day will of course all be late deliveries, I’d at least ship on time.
Message the Performance and SFP Teams as well, with link to Bank Holiday Details on a government website, so at least taken into consideration , .
Seller_qZO3ZCjoBXEeL
I imagine that as it reflects your actual business state, you’ll have to put your store on holiday once your Prime collection is made the day before and re-enable it after Prime cutoff on the bank holiday.
Seller_prNRYzgZJre6A
We are in Scotland also, however from reading the RM website I can only see the TD12 postcode in the borders as no deliveries/collections for Monday 5th and everywhere else in Scotland is as normal for collections and deliveries.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
Amazon only take into account the holidays in the country of the buyer. So no exceptions are made if you’re unable to ship due to your own national holidays. Backwards yes, welcome to Amazon.
Seller_OPIGLOYfyTIdQ
After Brexit all those 4 nations will rejoin the EU separately.
