Superscrews News

We've had a lot of inquiries and yes, we are open during lockdown and shipping orders as per normal. We are infrastructure that provides current needs of people and communities, in particular maintaining their dwellings. We can also do this contactless as we ship our orders from a shed on our land.

Our courier company NZ Post has been doing a wonderful job and there seems to be very little delay from normal with transport times (typically a maximum of three business days), if you see the courier driver give them the thumbs up.

We hope everybody is managing ok and putting this unexpected time at home to good use, or just chilling out. So far around here we have a new greenhouse door, some new shelves in our storage area and we're about to hack through a wall and start on a new bedroom. We've also put up the badminton net outside.

We have a new payment method, we now accept Bitcoin on chain or via the Lightning Network.

Bitcoin is set to be the global currency of choice and is already an option for us to pay our suppliers so it makes sense to accept it as well. Until we add it to the website in the next few weeks if you'd like to pay for an order with Bitcoin please email us and we'll get back to you with the wallet address to send to.

Welcome to the future :-)

We had a great holiday season and we've been back shipping orders since early January, we hope you did too and best wishes for the year ahead.

People sure seem to have noticed our new shipping rate, FREE for orders over $50, and it's quite astonishing to see how organised many of you are placing orders just over the $50 target :-)

This year we are concentrating on re-stocking our range and adding some new styles, at the moment importing stock is harder than ever before but hopefully we will land a shipment before the middle of the year.

Toby has been working on getting the workshop up to speed for doing some caravan renovations and in doing so has invented something notable.

Using some recycled aluminium tent pole (apparently old radio aerial works too), cut with a pipe cutter, he's been attaching them all around the place with P or T series screws. Sure you could just use a screw but then the thread is often out of the wood and can cut into whatever you are hanging up.

They're been proving very useful for tools, jackets and even sleeving irrigation tube onto for making plant tunnels.

We've been having such a good experience with Courier Post lately doing a killer job of delivering things fast and true that we thought we'd pass on some of the goodness by lowering our Free Freight limit. To $50! From now on (until we change it again) orders over $50 are FREE FREIGHT, even for rural customers!

We'd also like to extend to you and your families a very happy Christmas and summer period. We're going to be here sending out orders up till the 18th December and then will reopen on the January 10th. We might be able to send out orders between those dates, it depends on if Toby has to replace the airbags on his bus.

We have just received the driver bits that match out new T Series Torx screws into stock. So we now have Torx driver bits in sizes 15, 20, 25, 27, 30 and 40 available here:

https://www.superscrews.co.nz/products/series/DB

We love Torx screws. Square drives are way better than Pozi, and Torx are way better than Square. We stoked to announce our new "T Series", counter sinking interior screws. They have a bunch of features to ensure they split wood less and drive faster and straighter. They also have a low chromate coating for professionals using screws all day everyday, and for a better overall environment.

We have these in 17 sizes from 15mm #6 up to 150mm #14 - try them out!

We've just put our website update live that replaces the credit card processor Paypal with Stripe. It's a much simpler and easier to use service and we look forward to getting it running as sweetly as possible. If you have any problems please contact us and we'll get right on it.

In the last few days we've had a few reports of people hitting credit card errors when trying to pay through Paypal. We're having a look into it now. If you do hit a problem please pay by internet banking and if you email us a screenshot of the transaction we'll ship the order ASAP.

Current status: Courier Post is still shipping and we will be dispatching orders on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

Wow, crazy times.

Superscrews is a small family business and we live rurally. This means, if our courier service stays operating we will be able to continue shipping orders indefinitely. If however any of us get sick then we will have to stop taking orders.

We would like to wish everybody the best of luck, family, community and health in this time and look forward to everything returning to normal. I have been told there is a tree house to build by my 9 year old so to preserve our mental health we will certainly be putting some time into our building projects along with looking after the family.