Heads up - Post office not sending sharps after 22nd April

[Nice65]

Ok but then arises the question what they consider being a bushcraft knife.
Is it just this british utterly boring model:

Or could this be, too? I think this is buscraft knife.

UK knife law has always been ambiguously worded. We’ve seen this way back with regard to compression locks and button locks where the blade can drop out under gravity. There used to be a problem with customs flicking blades out with a wrist flick and confiscations as gravity knives. I remember a UKPK getting stopped as a gravity knife. Customs were holding the blades and flicking the handles we discovered.

I think it’s deliberate, it allows for confiscation pretty much without question. It’s still a lottery sending knives with RM, always has been.

 

[ONE]

Resurrected to say I was IDed today by a young lady delivering a kitchen gadget with a blade on behalf of Amazon. There was a little discussion, as I'm in my 50s and it shows, but she was or at least seemed quite willing to walk away and have the item returned if I didn't show her proof of age. In the course of the conversation (which was entirely civil) she said postmen can do an "obviously of age" entry on their gadget, but Amazons couriers can't.

 

[Falstaff]

Resurrected to say I was IDed today by a young lady delivering a kitchen gadget with a blade on behalf of Amazon. There was a little discussion, as I'm in my 50s and it shows, but she was or at least seemed quite willing to walk away and have the item returned if I didn't show her proof of age. In the course of the conversation (which was entirely civil) she said postmen can do an "obviously of age" entry on their gadget, but Amazons couriers can't.

I've got the same problem with Nationwide - my ID to vote is a Bus Pass but that's not acceptable to them - as I don't have a photo ID driving licence, if I don't have a semi-recent passport I'm screwed. Even a Birth Certificate isn't ok as there's no recent photo on it!.

 

[Tony]

Yeah, Royal Mail have their Challenge 25 policy, if you look under 25 they ask for age. I'm not sure that Amazon force the age verification, although often the delivery drives are dictated by what the device says to do, they're more after date of birth to compare to their system.

 

[ONE]

Yeah, Royal Mail have their Challenge 25 policy, if you look under 25 they ask for age. I'm not sure that Amazon force the age verification, although often the delivery drives are dictated by what the device says to do, they're more after date of birth to compare to their system.

I've had the year check in the past. But on this occasion the YL involved was totally deadpan about me not getting the goodies without ID.

And, no word of a lie, I went out at lunchtime today to find a box containing a 15" sirupate khukuri sitting on the doormat. Different courier!