Sign in here if you want Marks and Spencers to start delivering overseas...

[MmeLindt]

maybe they will eventually DO something about us poor expats (and the poor expat Mums and Grannies back home who have to run to the post office to send us our M&S rations) Maybe the power of MN can achieve equality for expats

I emailed them months ago and they said they are working on it.

M&S WORK FASTER!

[MmeLindt]

Califrau
Positive thinking please!

We could just bombard them with emails until they give in

[Brangelina]

But we're in Europe Cali, it's easier for us, fewer airmiles and all that.

I'll sign your petition but only for the food. Don't like their bras anymore and as for PerUNa....I'm not that old. Are you going to draw one up?

[francagoestohollywood]

I'll sign but just for the food.
Actually just cakes, biscuits and the utterly delicious tuna pate. The rest, I don't miss, really

[MmeLindt]

Well, I rely on Mum to bring me the extra strong tea bags and the biscuits/cakes.

I do like their kids clothes and some of the ladies clothes, not quite sure who buys Per Una but it seems to be popular. DH likes their golf trousers.

[finknottle]

Agree. There used to be one in Strasbourg just an hour from us. Made for a great day out. La France. Le Marks & Spencer...
Closed now.
Sob.
Expats have extra (can't specify without sobbing so just believe OK?) special needs

Oh, MmeL, aren't you s'posed to be packing?

[JODIEhadababy]

Oh PLEASE make this happen. My mum is in Spain and I either have to cart a shed load of stuff over with me when i go, or store a shed load of things for her until she arrives here! Would be bloody lovely if she could get stuff sent to her!

ARE YOU LISTENING M&S??????

[Walkthedinosaur]

I think they are considering it actually, someone on a French Expats site got all the Anglos living in Brittany to send emails after they discovered Next had started delivering to France and I believe M&S emailed back a reply saying they were looking into it with the hope of implementing it next year, so fingers crossed.

[MmeLindt]

Walkthedinosaur
Yes, they told me that too but that was aaaages ago. Do Next deliver to France? I did not know that.

Finknottle
We used to drive 3 hours from Würzburg to Cologne to go to M&S. I cried when they closed down their German stores.

I have been packing, honest. Got distracted by my Extra Strong Teabags

[PinkTulips]

even worse, i live in ireland where we have M&S and they don't deliver here! i live an hour and a half from the closest one and can't justify the trip so tried ordering stuff last xmas and was told they don't deliver here

[Turniphead1]

pinktulips I can't think of any food co.s that deliver in southern ireland. Maybe its because the lack of postcodes and er...even addresses and house numbers would make it very hard. I don't know.

[SuperBunny]

OOo, yes, why don't they do this?

I miss my M&S undies

And clothes for DS

[SuperBunny]

Next deliver to Germany too. Or maybe that's just to BFPOs

[bebespain]

Ooh fingers´ and everything else crossed here I am getting palpitations just thinking about it!

I was gutted when M&S closed its Spain stores and we´re miles from Gibraltar.

I recently found out that Next deliver to Spain too so maybe there´s a chance....

Come on M&S - you could make a mint! That reminds me M&S All Butter Mintoes are the best!!!

[squigglywig]

Oh oh oh - please!!

[AussieLou]

oh please please please
I am going to be desperate when I eventually move back to Australia.
I'll sign anything

[MmeLindt]

Any more?

I bet M&S could make a fortune, I have loads of German friends who would love to be able to order from Markies. As it is, I have to import the dressing up clothes, you don't get anything near as nice here.

With the fab (for us) exchange rate buying in UK is great at the moment.

[Themasterandmargaritas]

Somehow i don't think they would send anything to Kenya . Besides I'm not sure it would ever make it through customs

[MmeLindt]

They could send an extra packet of goodies to bribe encourage the customs officers to allow the package into the country.

[Buda]

We have M&S here in Budapest but it is a franchise and pretty crap. No food. Fuddy duddy clothes and a huge mark-up.

Agree PinkTulips that they should now be able to deliver in Ireland. Pretty poor that they don't really. Mind you - Amazon have really reduced what they will deliver to Ireland too over the last few years - seems to be books and dvds only (I think - haven't tried anything else for a while).

Turniphead - Tesco and Superquinn deliver in and around Dublin certainly - is that what you mean by food companies? I assumed they delivered in and around any of there major stores.

[Themasterandmargaritas]

It would have to be a mighty encouraging pack of goodies MmeL, one bike shop owner has recently 'lost' 300 kids bikes from his container

[belgo]

Absolutely hope not. There will be no hope for my bank balance if they do.

[mumoverseas]

I'm in Saudi Arabia and they have a few small stores here but only clothes and smellies and very limited range. In Bahrain there is a small one that has a tiny food section but only things like pasta and other dried goods athough I did manage to get a christmas cake there last year! Not the same though and really miss some of the other food!

[Brangelina]

Ah, Christmas cake. I always have to use up my luggage allowance to bring over heavy Christmas cakes (very popular amongst the Italians). Now if we had a local shop where we could buy them at normal prices instead of the hugely overpriced British luxury goods stores then I'd be able to buy more of other crap to fill my suitcase, thus helping the British economy further.

All the other stuff like marmite and PG tips I can get from the Sri Lankan shops or Chinese supermarkets. Also Branston, Rowntrees jellies and Bird custard (Interesting that the ex British empire is now represented solely by these items.....)

However, none of these items interest me, I yearn for sliced granary bread and Dundee marmalade (alas not popular with the Sri Lankans). Why oh why did they close the European stores? The Paris one used to be a regular stop off point for during my business trips. I used to accept assignments purely because it meant I could pop into M&S.

[MmeLindt]

LOL at Brangelina's shopping tactics.

We actually have one in Geneva, so I can shop there but I think it is just clothes. Maybe they will get some Christmas stuff in too so that I wont have to ask my mum to post crackers this year.