Still have a couple of your "packagings"
Multifunction, packaging, pipe boxing and firewood all rolled into one fairly heavy container.
Old news: 2013. PO states "weapons" cannot be posted, shows pic of knife.
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Multifunction, packaging, pipe boxing and firewood all rolled into one fairly heavy container.
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I tend to send the odd thing with creative labelling. Last thing was a hand and a half broadsword sent as a "Theatrical Prop".... Not a peep from the postie
Biker
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I tend to send the odd thing with creative labelling. Last thing was a hand and a half broadsword sent as a "Theatrical Prop".... Not a peep from the postie
Ditto. I sent a take down axe last month and when asked what it was said it was a starting handle for a tractor. I didn't have to fill out a contents label on the package though, just "Anzered ze kweztions."
xylaria
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some postal staff are eedjits. I wont use the main post office, give the bloke behind the counter a small parcel and say the cheepest way possible please and he will come up with a £6.50 super tracked delivery. Give him one of the envelopes with the midge repel in it, he will say its a small parcel not a large letter. He asked what I am posting, I ask him why, he comes up some stuff about enforcing anti terrorism law. If I say it is insect repellant and I will get some speel about noxious substances. I dont bother saying my cat has guffed more noxious stuff than what i post. I think he must be on commision for selling the most exspensive way of posting, and his attempt at defending the royal mail of all things sharp and smelly is a bit of a power trip. Anyway I use the other postoffice, they weigh they measure, they sell me second class stamps.
Go to the post office, get the leaflet they are giving away re the new postal regs, read and inwardly digest, the only mention of knives is under weapons where it states
" Weapons - (Inc Section 5 firearms, CS gas & pepper sprays, flick knives, tasers & stun guns)"
Apart from that there is no mention of knives, axes or anything else we are likely to use, therefore there is absolutely diddly squat to worry about.
" Weapons - (Inc Section 5 firearms, CS gas & pepper sprays, flick knives, tasers & stun guns)"
Apart from that there is no mention of knives, axes or anything else we are likely to use, therefore there is absolutely diddly squat to worry about.
TurboGirl
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Marvellous
I think you found todays 'Tin Hitler' award winner there, Kev! What a twit... I'd be having a quiet word with the postmistress/master/their line managers re bad advice.
Except for some jobsworth's personal interpretation of what a weapon is...
Which is where just about all of the issues where items are refused come from.
Fairly sure I've just labled a billhook and few axe heads (boxed very solidly) I've sent as being woodworking tools. Thats what they are after all.
Maybe they still have a good rep locally, i like to use my local PO. Staff know what i post and to whom, Whisky in an irn bru bottle, is de riguer for my friend abroad. Although the big irn bru factory along the road does help.
Its a couple of miles to my nearest post office so I can take a parcel down there, stand there for ten minutes (only ever one or two windows open) or can book online, print off the bar code/label and wait the the courier to come to me to pick the parcel up from my house and the difference in price is next to nothing. With the PO it can take 2 - 5 days for the parcel to arrive but via courier its there next day. I lost all faith in the PO when they shut the local office down which really was a little social hub for people in the village.
The post office will do the same thing here. And the prices are way apart here; more than double for FedEx, UPS, are any of the commercial carriers compared to the post office. That said, the post office is slower.
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