You're welcome.Well I learned something today. There is a little known exception to knife sale law which no knife retailer seems to adhere to. 100% I've come across want you to be 18.
You're welcome.Well I learned something today. There is a little known exception to knife sale law which no knife retailer seems to adhere to. 100% I've come across want you to be 18.
Hopefully @Mervg can get his knive set back- and perhaps there needs to be a requirement on the "edged tools classified" that the sender used age verified service?
My age verification sent knives got stopped which is why I now know quite alot about this after 3 weeks of emails back and forth the problem is the staff arnt trained and don't know the difference between the banned knives and restricted knives they tried everything with me started by saying my knives were illegal and they were contacting the police they soon backed down when I said I worked for the police and if they would like my collar number and at that point it hit them with the fact they had now stolen my knives they would be getting investigated and that was the point they became very nice my destroyed knives were magically found and a few days later I got an apology and my knives got returned but I had to fight for themMy concern is that even if Mervg had used the age verified service, they would have still seized and apparently destroyed the knives, given their letter makes no mention of the lack of age verification being the issue.
The ones I've sent using age verification were far less traditional knives than Mervg's, but reached their recipients. So it may be possible that age verification parcels are not scanned like the rest of the mail, but I'd be very surprised. I imagine it's more likely to be inconsistent and incorrect interpretation by the staff working that particular day of what is and isn't prohibited. Much like the border/customs staff.
Not a good situation.
That is appalling. Excellent result but appalling from them. Very useful to know about the age verification not offering protection from this kind of overreach.My age verification sent knives got stopped which is why I now know quite alot about this after 3 weeks of emails back and forth the problem is the staff arnt trained and don't know the difference between the banned knives and restricted knives they tried everything with me started by saying my knives were illegal and they were contacting the police they soon backed down when I said I worked for the police and if they would like my collar number and at that point it hit them with the fact they had now stolen my knives they would be getting investigated and that was the point they became very nice my destroyed knives were magically found and a few days later I got an apology and my knives got returned but I had to fight for them
Retail sellers do not seem to be subject to the same terms as private individuals using these services.
Hey, it was going from stourport on severn Worcestershire to Shetland - a long way !!!@Mervg May I ask where you were sending the package from and to? Just counties/nearby cities will do, just trying to work out how far it had to travel.
Again, I'm really sorry to hear this.Hey, it was going from stourport on severn Worcestershire to Shetland - a long way !!!
As an update, I did complain to the post office and had the expected reply. I then upgraded the complaint and had pretty much the same reply. Knives were destroyed !!!
Nothing else can be done !!!!!