Knitwear country is the far Borders: the railway stops short at Tweedbank, the A7 winds, and Hawick’s practical route to a recovery bench is the one that’s always worked — the insured overnight box, which reaches Princes Street from the Teviot as reliably as from anywhere in Scotland.
Insured post from anywhere in Scotland, or bring it to Princes Street yourself — the diagnostic costs nothing either way.
Hawick posts: Special Delivery from the town lands on the bench next working day, the diagnostic completes within 24–48 hours, and recovered data returns the same insured way — a full recovery without a single trip up the A7 (though the determined can drive it, or ride from Tweedbank after the run up the valley). The cashmere-and-knitwear trade contributes pattern archives, design systems and the occasional venerable stock database; the town at large contributes what every town does — photos, laptops, the external that was the backup. Distance appears nowhere on the quote.
The full bench travels with the postcode: mechanical drive recovery under clean-air conditions, chip-level card and USB work, RAID and NAS reconstruction, ransomware response. And the terms never vary by distance: the diagnostic is free, the quote is fixed in writing from £300 + VAT for single drives, and on most jobs no recovery means no fee.
Almost certainly: legacy systems are familiar bench work, from vintage file systems to databases whose software vanished decades back. Send the machine or its drives; recovery extracts to modern, usable formats, and the free diagnostic tells you what's in there first.
Where next-day post ends, which is nowhere in the Borders: every town and every mill valley reaches the bench overnight for the price of Special Delivery. The A7's length is the post office's problem, not yours.