Same day box-office ticket pick-up worries

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Hi, I have a question about box office ticket collection.

I have one arena standing ticket for each night at RAH, one from Gigs&Tours and one from SeeTickets.

Because I live in Canada, they would not post me the tickets but would only allow same-day box office ticket pick-up. That’s all fine and good - I imagined leaving the queue for a few minutes during the day to make the pick-up. But, I later got e-mails informing me that tickets are only available at the box office from 18:45 on the day of the event. Doors open at 18:45. I’m travelling all the way from Canada for these two gigs so of course I planned to queue for the day. I do not want to be queued at the box office when everyone else is rushing onto the floor. I tried to contact both companies about this issue multiple times but only got form replies and their customer service numbers don’t seem to be reachable from overseas. So I don’t know how firm this ‘after 6:45 only’ rule is.

Surely, SURELY there are thousands and thousands of tickets sold annually for RAH events to non-British residents, same for SeeTickets and Gigs&Tours. Does any outside-UK person have experience with this with these companies? Will I be able to get my ticket before doors open?

A couple people on Tumblr have told me that it will probably be fine but I am really anxious anyway. I am going to be genuinely distraught if I can’t even get my tickets until doors have opened…