It's due to Bitcoin fees being sky high mate, also Lightning Network is not compatible with LB.

Check my topic I have linked out for a partial solution.

I ordered 6th July, still at royal mail 19th July, spoke to customer service, they say it is classed as missing and not seized and sender can get refund.
Postman definitely took that lol
21/7

I had a NDD that was supposed to arrive yesterday (listed as sent Monday). The afternoon is wearing on and it's still not here today. I sent a message last night to see if it could be tracked but it hasn't been opened (vendor hasn't used messenger for two days, apparently). My area isn't listed as affected by delayed service by RM. The last NDD I had from this vendor arrived fine. If I'd seen all those posts, I'd have ordered elsewhere. I use edibles for pain management so being stuck like this really fucks me up--I guess I just got too comfortable with things arriving when I order them! I'm not swimming in money either and this wasn't a tiny order. Not happy at all.

I think the problem is RB’s Royal mail area as there’s loads of comments all saying stuck. I too saw he’s not been on messenger for 2 days. I’ve ordered loads of times from him in the past all NDD & have all arrived bang on time so I’m really hoping it’s just covid delays & nothing more sinister

Mine arrived this morning! I checked the tracking and it was sent... yesterday afternoon (21/7), when it was marked as sent Monday (19/7). Not really pleased that I paid for next day delivery and have been sitting around waiting on the postie for days for no reason, but very glad it materialised! Hope yours does too.

Glad yours arrived but not good they only sent it yesterday. I hate the hanging around for the postie bit too. I’ve been told mines lost so he offered reship 50% or refund 50%

My first real issue with RB

Me too. As best I could tell the ones like yours ordered last week(?) were stuck at some depot. If there was a known issue I would certainly hope that the vendor would send later orders from a different post office, with different packaging, whatever... Or if orders aren't getting through RM, stop accepting them temporarily. If NDD is the problem, send first class. Something. Fingers crossed it's just RM delays and nothing worse...

Hey, RB has been in touch to say my NDD parcel was intercepted at the sorting office, and has offered a 50% reship or refund. Would recommend getting in touch with him to get sorted :-)

Hi yeah he’s contacted me saying RM said mine is lost & offered me the same. If someone’s taking them from the post office not sure I want to risk losing another order. Did you get the tracking number from RB to know it was actually sent as Deepdish received their order today that they’ve been waiting on but was only posted yesterday.

Yep got the tracking number and it was sent when RB said it was, 10 days ago now so deffo taken me thinks. It isn't RB fault however I'm not going to accept a reship as don't want it to go missing again or put my address at jeopardy.

Likewise mate, sticky finger post man got mine too, no point in a 50% reship, just cut losses. Shame though, RB was one of my regulars.

Yeah I can’t see the point of a reship if compromised. RB was my go to as well, got 99% from them so it’s a shame

Some further info from RM website which might be useful…

Due to resourcing issues, associated self-isolation and safety measures, deliveries in some areas may be disrupted this week. We aim to deliver at least every other day in these areas, though this may not always be possible in offices temporarily affected by very high levels of absence. These offices are exceptions, and are listed below when appropriate.

Blackpool (FY1-FY6)
Chorley (PR6)
Enfield (EN1, EN2, EN3)
Henley on Thames (RG9)
Middleton (M24)
Newton Abbot (TQ12, TQ13)
Plympton (PL7)
Rochdale (OL11, OL12, OL13, OL14, OL15, OL16)
Southport (PR8)
Worthing DO (BN11, BN12, BN13, BN14)

We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We’re working hard to deliver as comprehensive a service as possible with the resource available. And we’re ensuring we prioritise the delivery of Covid-19 vaccination letters and test kits.

Thanks Georgie93 really helpful

Hey! I received an order this morning 21/7 that was sent RM 1st class recorded on 15/7. Not NDD I know, but there is hope :)

I shared this information recently on another post, but I’ll mention it again.

According to yesterday’s service update on their website, as well as some other issues, a fair few Royal Mail staff have had the dreaded ping from the NHS app and are having to self isolate which has caused disruption to deliveries 🚚
They are also prioritising delivery of COVID test kits, which will no longer be free of charge as of next month. I have a feeling folk have been stockpiling which will create more of a backlog.
Worse effected seems to be guaranteed next day and signed for. I’m guessing that processing requires more resources?

I can’t offer any words regarding seized parcels as thankfully never had the experience.
I’m sure another Bigga will be able to advise on that subject.
Best of luck!

Im heading over with a reference link as soon as they are ;)

We remember this happened a few months ago too!! Vendors struggle just as much :-( Let’s hope Biggy moves to another coin soon!!

Just been charged £3.48 to semd £60 using coinbase. Just 10mins ago.

Lucky you.

Placed 4 orders last night without looking at the charts 😔 hope the stash will last till.fees drop. Had to message a vendor or two lb needs a alt crypto or even just a stable coin. xrp payments are almost instant.....imagine. Still £55 fees for £6 of btc as of 11:30 GMT

Fees been on or around £48 all day. Starting to do my f**king head in

Reason I've found a different platform. Some great vendors and products here but only having the one crypto and only now trying to react to it by introducing an alrernative, while other places take LTC and a few others, it's too little too late for me.

Apparently biggas have been asking for an alternative crypto for years, probably every time the fees are high, and nothing's happened so I think it's a case of go elsewhere if you can while the fees are high and come back when they're low again.

I sent £230 btc with my revolut account and fees were only £15.15 highly recommend revolut bank

You've still been had.

I have a Revolut account. Will need to have a look

Just been chatting to blockchain customer services as i am still getting over $200 fees quoted for a $35 transaction,they told me to try later as markets have just opened and there has been a bug in the fees since the halfing event,i think they hope it will resolve itself i guess we will see.

Check my topic I have linked out, it will cost you around £10-15 in fees to send with this method.

Still not ideal but definitely better.

I've just opened a Kraken account. Can i transfer funds from Coinbase to Kraken? Or will i have to spend it at Coinbase? Pretty new to this.

If it is crypto then you can yeah otherwise if it is fiat then just withdraw to your bank.

Be warned tho, the method I am about to state incurs some small fees although still nothing near as high as Bitcoin's network fees;

If it is Bitcoin that you have on Coinbase then use the 'convert' feature, convert into something that has cheap fees like Litecoin.

Then send all to your Litecoin address on Kraken and again convert it back into Bitcoin there on Kraken.

This prevents you paying the dreaded BTC network fee whilst transferring from Coinbase to Kraken.

Just a heads up tho, for your first withdraw on Kraken you have to wait 1-3 days.

This only applies to your first withdraw though, after that there is no waiting.

Cheers pal. Very helpful

You have to wait 24-72 hours before your first withdrawal mate.

Only applies to your first one tho.

Also on Kraken they call it a 'withdrawal' not a 'send' like other exchanges.

On the Kraken app > click 'portfolio' > click 'withdraw' > select 'BTC'

Oh yeah make sure you don't send your BTC here on the Lightning Network as it is not compatible.

£50 fee on a £84 transaction 😬, no thanks coinbase!

Fees still high 11.35

Tried to buy £33 of hashish this morning (22nd April at 06.30) and also saying not enough funds, have over £50 in bitcoin:((

Hi went on coin base last night about 8 ish only got charged £4 in transfer fees hopefully going down now 🤑had to get meds took the chance and it was really low 🫶 still need alternative coin really 👍

TESSERACT a platform that allows you to pay with alternatives.

28 fee coinbase today seems at slowly going down

Fees have minimized possibly temporary but I paid £15 in fees to move 130 I’m happy with 10% especially if the price messes about for another couple days 23/4-21:47

Just got the fees at just under £15 for a £80 deal. Here's hoping it levels off now

It’s taking it’s time at 30 min tho as long as it goes through I’m happy

Just cleared. 1hr and 15mins. Happy Bigga now

Yeah mine's the same.

Stop using Coinbase - i stopped using them years ago - they are thieving scalping bastards. I sent £105 of BTC this morning and it cost me about £5 and was confirmed within 20 mins. There are so many options these days to buy and send BTC - people need to do the research and find better services than Coinbase.

What do you use then?

Just made a GBP200 purchase via Kraken: total of GBP13.64 to buy and send to LB.

Took a little less than 30 minutes from deposit in Kraken to being received by Transaxe.

NB My order was a little over GBP200 and I already had about £30 of BTC in Kraken, so I'd guess about GBP15 in fees if I was starting from scratch.

Trying to transfer £100 have £38 in fees think it’s going down but still ridiculous
23/4-11:57

Still sky high
23/4
12:40

Hello

Been using binance from the get go to send btc, normally £4-7 fee what ever the amount is same fee...the lowest I've seen in the last 4 days is like 27..should I hold on till it lowers or use a different app ? Cheers for any advise 👍

Just paid £56 fees for a $99 bit 😅 07:27am 22/4, coinbase yay 🤐

Ah so, least urs is working? Every time I even try sending to an any address the next screen is something went wrong. Error. Been like that last 2/3 days.

That's weird man, Im useless with tech, sorry, wish I could help

Mine did that last week, got email at weekend to say all is good. Tried and just did the same. Using Paybis now.

You should be able to change the BTC fee in settings before finalising the transaction. Go to https://mempool.space/ to find out the going rates on network fees, if they’re high wait 30 mins and check again. Currently for low priority it’s $7.30 and will process in ~20mins (6:15am).

How can i change it tho

Depends on how you use bitcoin.
personally I use coinbase to buy the bitcoin, then transfer to my personal wallet for which I use electrum software.
In electrum you can choose when sending a payment how much fees to pay.
As others have said you can look at the mempool.
Prices have been too high over the last few days, but will eventually return.
The last time fees were this high there was plenty of chat about an alternative to BTC on LB.
Part of the problem with the fees is that they have little relation to the purchase price - you will pay the same fee regardless of whether you are paying $30 or $300.
Bitcoin is really more of an investment tool than a payment tool.
I do hope that LB get an alternative soon, as no one sane is going to pay $50 in fees for a $30 deal.

I won't be using lb till fees come down considerably, especially when there's alternatives, bought a bit with Lt this afternoon and had 0.00 fees, couldn't believe it..

Guys,

Fees look like they are coming down lowest I've seen all week. Infzct low enough to place a few orders.

Come check out full filtered range. These hash eggs are 💪💪

23/04 10.00 .... send £20 BTC urgent with moonpay for a bargain price of £216.13

ALTERNATIVE CRYPTO OPTION NOW !!!!!

this is 08:16 on 23 april
Current rate in the mempool for quick (10 min) processing is around 160 sat/vB, 'normally' around 20.
This is not 'lowest all week', and is a bit higher than yesterday.
Looks like it will take some days to calm down.
I just paid a fee of ~£11 on ~£130, so a bit less than 10%. - this got me on the 39 minute block.
(I'm using electrum wallet which allows you to choose rate)

24 April 07:30
Despite many people thinking that the rate would go down over hours or a couple of days, it looks like it is acutally increasing.
Yesterday I wrote 10 min processing was 160 sat/vB, today its 650 or ~$60 per transaction.
So it doesn't look like it is going to decrease any time soon.
Yesterday I made an order and paid about 10% in fees on ~£130, glad I did it, no telling how long it will take for things to get back to 20 sat/vB

Today we seem almost back to normal, with even the 10 min processing @ 33 sat/vB or ~ $3 per transaction.
Lets hope it stays like that, and a good time for people to buy to transfer to their private wallets

25 April 08:00 (UK)

I'm trying to spend dust from my referrals....160 sat is INSANE for the amount of uxto I have in one transaction. Ridiculous

Mines saying 55 :( . Literally can’t order.

Be like this for a bit yet i think

Coinbase wallet don't allow me to change the send rate speed for BTC only ETH

Next time the fees are better send a couple of order’s worth of coin across to a new wallet. Trust wallet allows you to change the BTC fee and i’ve had no issues sending to LB.

I’ve got trust wallet and it’s trying to charge me over £80 in fees
Please explain

In advanced settings (highlighted below) you can set the sat/vB rate.
Go to: https://mempool.space/
To figure out what a reasonable rate is at that time. It changes drastically throughout the day so keep checking in if it’s high.

Cheers bandit, you're the realest

I think fees going down slowly. I sent 1000£ yesterday and paid 55£ fees, so its not so bad

Back at £20. Proper pain in the arse

Yes, a signature is required. My postie trusts me and so he simply puts through my letterbox.
Strictly speaking though, a signature is required.

Hey mate.

Plausible deniability. Don't own up to the package. Deny all knowledge of it. They've not the time or the inclination to look further into a package with a bit of weed in it.

They'll ask if it's yours, where it came from etc. They won't need entrance into your home either but if you don't want neighbours over hearing the conversation if you've got nothing to hide at home it won't make a difference if they enter. I seriously doubt they'll conduct a search from what I've seen others in your position have said.

They'll just give you a warning not to do it again. That's if it has been intercepted by Royal Mail. There's a lot of sticky fingers within Royal Mail!

Hope it sorts itself quickly. It's a lot of stress for something that shouldn't be illegal in the first place.

ULC

The criminal justice system relies almost entirely on people pleading guilty out of fear/pressure. Just deny it to the bitter end and make as much of a nuisance of yourself as possible (asking for police report records, specific details, copies of conversations etc) until they’ve spent more money pursuing it than they’ll get back in a fine and they’ll throw the case out. This is essentially what solicitors do cause enough trouble until it’s no longer worth the police time. This works for a lot of crimes and is always worth pursuing.

You're more likely to get a letter than a knock unless it's large amounts or it's tied to someone they're investigating

Nah they don't write letters for small bits they eventually knock door. Maybe international mail. a letter occurs.

Amen

What was the quantity and does the seller have a history of good stealth? Like ULC says, plenty of sticky fingered posties have an inkling of what’s in zero weighted Jiffy bags these days and may have thieved it. RM just don’t need the hassle otherwise (it’s a no reward game) so unless it’s big and it stinks like (enter joke here) they won’t go there.
If it was big and it did stink and they do knock then you know nothing. At best: ‘some idiot friend somewhere might have sent it thinking they could use your address but you have no idea who or why or when’. Terribly sorry, terribly polite. They won’t want to enter unless it was a BIG order! A warning will ensue, leave it a while and only order very stealthy Henry’s in the future.
Worry not….🙏😇

a run of packages is a stinker somewhere in the chain and it may not be the posties. your seller may have a new hire or who knows what operationally. the seller needs to make good on this regardless.

Same vote as yourself so fingers crossed

Hey,
I am late with the response, but i speak from experience.
I've been to police and courts because of sensitive packages arriving to my address.
It does suck when it happens. It also takes away any confidence in ordering again. I do not order from abroad anymore.
Luckily i live in a country where we have postal secrecy - only satan knows what is being transported by the postal trucks in this country (anything from human organs to most deadly drugs and weapons lol).

You got to remember that it is not a crime to receive a letter/package.
As long as you deny ever knowing about it or ordering it - you should be fine.
Don't leave too many tracks online when ordering.
And if they will offer to do a piss test (which at some point happened to me) - you have the full right to deny doing it. It makes no difference to the court and in fact it can be easily proved that such tests are basically self-incrimination.

Do not hesitate to ask if in doubt.
Cheers,
V.

p.s. By the way, ULC wrote a good post response to you.

I too have been down this route. Had to go to Police Station, denied all knowledge of it, used free-appointed lawyer. Very very scary, but in the end, investigation dropped....but it does mean I had to change my delivery address, which is a pain in the arse, as I can't risk it happening again.

How much was the intercepted package? Seems out of the ordinary to get as serious as getting a lawyer even if free involved. I know of somebody who almost certainly had a quart intercepted due to poor stealth but he just never got the package, never heard anything else.

I had 7g seized a few weeks ago due to poor stealth. I got a letter from the police pretty much advising don’t do it again.
Still the orders are dropping…

It’s why I strictly stick to vendors with a proven track record regarding stealth.

and who do you recommend

To stealth is Ghost town terps his stealth is super slick

I've not even seen him yet. Does he do live resin? Currently with Canadian Imports and can't complain at all.

He ghosted had some good stuff and then is gone, Ci is my go to aswell they are boss

I had several, from 7g up to an ounce.

was about 5g. Two cops at door. Package had been intercepted.

about 7g

I’m in the same boat! Deny all knowledge! Then they have to prove it was you.

And here's me worrying about a missing 1g of cheese in the post lol

I will send you a g what’s your adress hahahaahh 😉

Yeah okay haha
Really am missing that g of cheese though. Hell knows where it went

Postie sticky fingers most likly

I know it wasn't my post lady, she's lovely.
It either wasn't sent, got lost, or found out. Not sure. Hopefully seller Will reship

Mine was pinched by the posty, in that case you'll be fine.

It happens there is many RM workers that smoke and if your aware of places like LB that ship smoke all day long through RM it’s bound to become known what packages has smoke and what don’t to a trained eye plus it’s the perfect crime nobody is gunna complain about there missing parcel when it’s packed with weed lol

If you don’t have it in your Possession they really can’t do much they can ask and you just say I have no idea what you are talking about it’s as easy as that happened to my pal up north they knocked gave a whole speech and he said i have no idea and they went on there way

Had a few knocks at door. 3-6 months down the line from royal mail specials being caught. It all depends on how the police deal with it. I had internal royal mails own polce force who turned up in a very very nice estate bmw and attire that looks more posher then ur usual plod.

they ask simple q's . - If it was ur name on the parcel might be harder to play dumb.

if it was big weight they may search but no one on this site should be selling weights.

with mine i was lucky i was dressed in shirt suit wear and just spoke politely. - Played dumb to it all and just by skill and some luck they left and asked where the best take away place was in this area. which also made me realis ethese police were not local and not normal police. which then lead me to finding out they have fib's or something. special internal royal mail police force with own cars and diff sorta hats.

if it's just smalll persy weed. They basically have to catch up on the file. Again it depends how badly they want to get you. They could get a search warrant They could even try follow you which has hapened to ppl in the past and then they get more evidence agaisnt them and take them to court. But yeh teh 2 times they just came to door. Asked if was mine. then asked if i knew person on the parcels name i used an alias. I denied all knowledge and they left and semed quite happy. This is why Specials and sigend for should not be used on any dark web market. but yet the lemming consumer fiends want to really put every one and themselves under attack by not managing their habits or life styles well waiting for last minute to get an order n pressuring the vendor to rush it out which gets caught. Bring back 1st class postage world wide. I sent personal weed to friend in india normal post landed 14 days later.. Its the ppl using the parcel system that fuckin it up. mainly the consumers which always mess things up to.

They send you a letter saying that they've intercepted and are keeping your drugs .
In civilised countries ,they don't hold the recipient accountable because it would be open to too much abuse.
In Japan it's another story.

THANKS TO EVERYONE SHOWING US LOVE <3 WE APPRECIATE YOU ALL

Get back on the wall, we need you, SORT IT OUT NOW LITTLE BIGGY your screwing over one of the best vendors here!!!

thank you <3

Yup I've had plenty of well priced bangers from Pistach so deserves a shout out and a place on the wall, come on borgs it even looks like they deleted the naughty words for you lol! :)

Good luck Pistach!

Thank you dear <3

I've purchased UpTo 50 times with pistach now and is my only go to vendor these days! Delivery is always so fast! Stealth is perfect! And prices/quality are unbelievable, they have helped me so much to buy my medication and not stress about the other things I need in life, food, electric, etc, even though our economy is going through the roof now! If it wasn't for pistach I wouldn't be able to get half as much to last me until my paydays, if not any, so thanks PISTACH! Much love ♥️

Does anyone know how the wall works? Pistach has lots of sales, good engagement, solid reviews and a decent menu catering for all price ranges. But disappears off the wall for no reason.

No clue we are still number one tho ♥️♥️♥️

There's alot of things that go into the algo, but If I had to speculate I'd guess it's to do with disputes, I'd guess these negatively effect you even if they're eventually settled outside of escrow / auto dispute.

Hopefully we get it sorted soon

🙏🤞

<3

I think if there's any disputes then may get removed?

We have some disputes not being removed still