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Bookishly X Gardners
We're so excited that we are now working with the UK's book distributer Gardners, so you can purchase our products on there, alongside your books. At present Gardners are buying our top totes, mugs and postcard sets so you can add to cart at the same time as topping up on your current bestsellers 📚! You can find our wares on Gardners here. We also had the opportunity to exhibit at the Gardners Trade Show this week, and really enjoyed meeting so many brilliant Booksellers.
Bookishly & Frameishly and the 4 Day Week!
We have some exciting news! The Bookishly team are moving to a four day week from April. We're teaming up with 4 Day Week Global to take part in their trial, supported by researchers at some top international universities. I'm really optimistic that it's going to be great for the business. We're aiming for the 100:80:100 model, where employees get 100% of the pay for 80% of the time but 100% of the productivity. We've done a lot of planning in the run up to the trial and we have some great strategies for achieving this. So from w/c April 4th 2022 onwards...
Current Lead Times
Bookishly and Frameishly Wholesale orders are currently being dispatched within 5 working days of payment being received, unless we let you know otherwise. Occasionally for very large orders we'll need to get in touch to prioritise what you need first and get things dispatched in stages. For individual print-frame-ship orders, we are currently managing next-day-dispatch quite comfortably but I'm aware that covid could interrupt that at any moment so please allow 2-3 days with your customer just in case.
Christmas Closure 2021-22
Frameishly Trade Framing We are taking a break and will be back in the workshop on January 4th. Print-Frame-Ship orders that come in during that time will be shipped by Friday 7th. Wholesale frames will take a little longer, we will dispatch them during the week commencing Monday 10th. Bookishly Wholesale Products Bookishly wholesale orders will be dispatched during the week commencing Monday 10th Jan.
January 2021 Covid-19 production update.
We are down to our minimum staff levels in order to keep everyone safe, so some of our lead times will need to lengthen a bit. Often your orders will go out within the usual time frames but in order not to over-promise, or to put too much pressure on our team, we are asking for a little bit of time in hand. Frameishly Trade Framing Print-Frame-Ship lead times are slightly extended, we are asking that you allow up to 4 days for dispatch (previously 2-3 days). If you are only finding this out after having taken an order from a...