It pains me to see such beautiful Tilley table lamps "over there", and then to read about the ridiculous issues related to posting them to the States. Has anyone tried to ship them in pieces? Burner in one box, vap in another, fount in the last declared as a flower vase or the like? I have NEEDS, dammit. A
You can call it whatever you want, Al, but if it's had any type of hydrocarbon fuel in it at any time in the past, it's a prohibited item and if detected, subject to confiscation at various points along its journey. I don't think it's just confined to Royal Mail - and no, I don't understand why either...
Here in Germany is the same Problem when you want to ship in foreign countries, I always write in big letters on the shipping papers. NO FUEL INSIDE Thhis works very well-
Ive used UPS and list it as lamp,dont think they Xray parcels or seek out fuel tanks as others do.... slightly similar a local chap to me ordered 1 litre of coleman fuel in the plastic bottle ,it came by royal mail with one layer of corrugated card wrapped around it,,,,
Within the UK sending a lamp should cost no more than £5.40 plus your packaging costs. This is with the parcel picked up from your door with £50 of insurance thrown in! I was not aware of the fuel issues with Royal Mail or sending abroad? Even empty founts are prohibited?? Steve
Hello, No problem at all. I am an ex pat and live in Ireland. I always use UPS or request seller to send UPS. It's reliable, cheap, and totally dependable. So everyone don"t worry about the old fashioned Post Office, bless them. And for those who sell on ebay don't restrict your sales by allowing the Post Office to rule your life and your lower sale price. When posting a tank, wash it out with soap and remove the filler cap so there can be on pressure in the tank. Maurice.
Hello, A few other points I forgot to mention. I had a stove posted recently through UPS, for 6.2 kg's the cost was £16.19 I thought this was quite good. It took 3 or 4 days to get here. The tracking is far superior to the post office. You get all the detail of all the places it goes through plus booking in exact times, when it left ect. To the point when you know that you better stay at home for the delivery. Maurice.
I can certainly agree that UPS does an excellent job here in the States, and I imagine that their international service would be as good. I'll certainly keep them in mind when I ask for a shipping quote. Many thanks to all, Al
We just shipped of a couple of used lamps to USA. The first time by royal post - it didnt even leave the country (DK) before it got caught in the airport-security and send back, because they wouldnt send anything that contained or had contained fuel or fumes of burning liquids. Then we took contact to american embassy and asked what to do and they guided us. We cleaned out the tanks totally, took photos of the contains of the package and left photos in a plastpocket outside the package for costums to drool over. Then we also left a total adress and "emergency"-phonenumber for the sender and ´the receiver to be called all hours if needed. Of course the tanks was disassembled and was not able to build up pressure, also shown on the pictures. Then the package got through. Claus C
Hello Claus, Is that the state mail service in Denmark ? If so they seem to be adopting the same policy as the u/k state service. Try UPS. But do make sure you clean the tank out and like I said before leave the filler cap off so on pressurization can take place. (My daughter lives in Grenna Denmark) Maurice. Edit : Sorry I did not not read properly. Still I think UPS would be less bother
Hi Maurice Well I was a bit too fast too. We started using the royal mail and also send all the loose, no tanks, by the royal mail while they are cheap. Second time we used UPS for the tanks and to keep costs low we did as written earlier, cleaning tanks, taking photos and stuff. Claus C
Hi, I have just been reading this article and can understand why you would want to keep hydrocarbon levels in cargo very low if you wanted to apply new "sniffing" technology: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25212775 Best Regards, Kerophile.
