How the hell do you send a knife now?

[Cottis]

Post Office will not let me send from the counter. Said it is an item that requires age verification and must be sent via online portal. So I try that and it does not offer the age verification service as a one time, infrequent sort of visitor. It suggests I need to set up an account. So i do that and it now thinks I am some sort of business ha ha ha. I try to create an order or a product but it wants names and addresses and I am not actually ready to send this yet if at all.

No idea how much it costs. Christ they don't make this easy do they? Is there an easier way to do this? It is just a knife. People up and down the country being massive bellends and decent folk cannot send basic tools somewhere in the country they live. Generally I am not one to moan about the UK but this seems an odd change in policy. Totally understand the age verification thing but why can it not be done at a Post Office counter? Why the onerous and obstacle ridden process?

Am I being a massive bellend myself or is there another company that will do this without making a big song and dance about it?

 

[VSS]

Tell the PO counter walla (quite truthfully) that the parcel contains "kitchen utensils" or "sports equipment" or "craft items".

 

[finnbear270]

UPS

 

[Cottis]

Tell the PO counter walla (quite truthfully) that the parcel contains "kitchen utensils" or "sports equipment" or "craft items".

That isn't the truth though and clearly these items fit in to the category that Royal Mail say should be sent with age verification. I don't want to send an expensive item and find it is confiscated or does not get to where it is mean to be going.

 

[finnbear270]

UPS!!

 

[Cottis]

UPS!!

Bloody hell, give me a chance ha ha ha. I just tried their website and residential to residential looks a PITA. I work and cannot be at home to have stuff collected. I just want to go somewhere, drop something off and pay someone to deliver it. That is how I post most stuff. Stupid rules.

 

[finnbear270]

Bloody hell, give me a chance ha ha ha. I just tried their website and residential to residential looks a PITA. I work and cannot be at home to have stuff collected. I just want to go somewhere, drop something off and pay someone to deliver it. That is how I post most stuff. Stupid rules.

No neighbours to trust?, Workplace collect?

 

[Sampo]

Any of the below terms could work (technically correct)

• Precision Scoring Instrument
• Ergonomic Box Opening Device
• Culinary Preparation Tool
• Horticultural Pruning Accessory
• Woodworking/Craft Supplies
• Machined Steel Component
• Hardened Alloy Sample
• Pointy Metal Physics Demonstrator
• High-Carbon Steel Paperweight (Sharpened Edition)
• Manual Vegetable Disassembly Unit
• Pocket-Sized Friction Reducer
• Portable String-Shortening Device

 

[Cottis]

So collection only or be economical with the truth?

 

[lotuseater]

Royal Mail are a joke. I have to send vital hard-copy documents Tracked 24 or they just don't arrive...and the "24" bit is merely an 'aspiration' they tell me, not a commitment. For guaranteed delivery next day you need Special Delivery at nearly £9 for letter. Except on Fridays when even £9 it doesn't guarantee Saturday delivery. They want you to pay £15 for that.

Not long ago,1st Class was almost always delivered the following day and really very secure.

 

[finnbear270]

Sent a parcel on Thursday for delivery by 1 pm Yesterday, ... £10.00, arrived two & half hours late, suppose I should be grateful it got there at all.

 

[Fosbery Holster]

It might be an idea to make enquiries at your local auction house as to whom they use for bladed items sold to absentee buyers.
If you intend to sell a few such items it could be worth a call.

In the past I’ve sent different items next day delivery guaranteed and l hope they arrive late which means I can claim a full postage refund !

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Post Office will not let me send from the counter. Said it is an item that requires age verification and must be sent via online portal. So I try that and it does not offer the age verification service as a one time, infrequent sort of visitor. It suggests I need to set up an account. So i do that and it now thinks I am some sort of business ha ha ha. I try to create an order or a product but it wants names and addresses and I am not actually ready to send this yet if at all.

No idea how much it costs. Christ they don't make this easy do they? Is there an easier way to do this? It is just a knife. People up and down the country being massive bellends and decent folk cannot send basic tools somewhere in the country they live. Generally I am not one to moan about the UK but this seems an odd change in policy. Totally understand the age verification thing but why can it not be done at a Post Office counter? Why the onerous and obstacle ridden process?

Am I being a massive bellend myself or is there another company that will do this without making a big song and dance about it?

Chisel works for me

 

[eldon]

Metal samples....... works for me and pretty true.

 

[Darkwoodecho]

Cutlery

 

[sauer]

Yesh lie. .. then when its scanned at depo and you have hassle of trying to get the f8cker back !

Ask me how I know ...

And same goes for lithium batteries.....ssell without and tell buyer to buy their own ...its just f8cking easier.. .life's too short

Paul

 

[Smellydog]

Bull**** Britain again, the land of the deluded **** and utopia dreamers.

You gotta feed them with what they understand, bull****.
Try a carving set ??

 

[Foxyboy43]

Yesh lie. .. then when its scanned at depo and you have hassle of trying to get the f8cker back !

Ask me how I know ...

And same goes for lithium batteries.....ssell without and tell buyer to buy their own ...its just f8cking easier.. .life's too short

Paul

Hmmm.
I tried ordering a blister pack of 6x2032 button batteries but ….. “We cannot post to your address”.
So tried 3 packs of 2 from the same supplier - arrived 2 days later in same envelope……

PS I live in Northern Ireland….

 

[Smallholder]

Legally you need to verify the age of the buyer so sending the knife any other way via the PO will not meet your legal obligation.

I expect the reasoning behind the new law to force anyone, including private sellers, to apply for a knife selling licence and all the costs and stuff that goes with it is because so many people ignore the current laws.

Not sure any of this will stop stabbings but there you go.

 

[NoIDeer]

Evri claim to deliver knives, with insurance should be safe?

I've been trying to buy a cheap skinning knife off Amazon for a couple of years without success. I can't get past their age verification due to my lack of credit history. My account with them is 23 years old!