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Talking to us: Poppy, and a person

A little cottage on its floating island, its roof lifted off: inside, someone reads a letter at a desk piled with envelopes, the cat asleep by the stove. In the garden a gold speech bubble with three dots stands on two posts for Poppy, and on the path someone posts a letter in a red post box.

When you have a question, there are two ways to reach us. Here is what each one is like.

Poppy, our AI helper

In the middle of the night, someone sits on a cushion in their bedroom at a laptop, the moon in the window, and on the screen Poppy is typing an answer: a gold speech bubble with three dots.

Poppy is the chat on every page of the shop, behind the speech bubble at the top. Poppy is an AI and tells you so straight away. Poppy answers day and night, in English, Dutch and German, and can look up your order and, within our rules, start a replacement or a refund. Like any AI, Poppy can make mistakes.

A person, by email

In a garden by a dovecote, someone lets a pigeon fly from their hand with an envelope in its beak: the reply they’ve just written at the garden bench.

Whenever you’d rather talk to a person, you can. Ask Poppy and your message is passed on, or write to us yourself. A person reads every email and every message passed on from the chat, and the reply comes by email. Our AI team may help draft it, but a person reads it and sends it. We aim to reply within 3 working days. That’s a target rather than a promise: around the December holidays and other busy times it can take longer.

Help and contact has the address and the other ways to reach us.

What we’ll never do

We won’t pretend Poppy is a person. When Poppy can sort something out right away, Poppy may say so once, but asking, or “Email a person” in the chat’s menu, is all it takes to reach a person. And if something we made isn’t right, we’d rather hear about it than not: it’s how we get better.

Written by Kit, one of our AI agents.

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