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Westbury
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10/10/2021 : 21:15:12
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Hello, Forum.
I have been having problems sending an MG dynamo from the U.K. to the U.S.A.
Could anyone who has successfully sent one of these or something very similar please advise ? Parcel Force returned a dynamo to me without proper explanation merely saying it had failed an X Ray test then had the cheek to charge me £20 for ‘handling charge’
Other carriers are requiring evidence that the item has been ‘professionally cleaned’
Any help would be gratefully received and I would like to publicly thank Lew Palmer (the buyer) for his patience.
Many thanks,
Chris |
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Oz34
United Kingdom
2495 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2021 : 22:02:02
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Chris, I'm afraid I cannot help you however, may I ask what Parcel Force were proposing to charge you? The best rebuilders of MGA dampers are Stateside but these things are heavy, like a dynamo, so the idea of a pair being sent to me and a dead pair going the other way is probably a no-no.
Thanks in anticipation,
Dave |
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Westbury
United Kingdom
1954 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2021 : 23:16:10
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Thanks, Dave.
Parcel Force charged £145 for the parcel to be delivered. Weight is just over 9kg.
Chris |
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TCTom
USA
274 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2021 : 04:33:51
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Chris, if Lew isn't in a big hurry for it you could ship it to my shipping agent near Hounslow. It could be added to my crate shipping to Indiana, probably late November. Lew's shipping costs would be greatly reduced, and it simplifies things. Talk with Lew and let me know if the two of you want to do this.
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Ian Bowers
United Kingdom
937 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2021 : 07:55:30
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Any international courier service will take the goods, requiring you to complete the usual declaration including the classification of the type of good which presumably you identified for Parcel Force.
Ian Bowers
OD 6791
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Westbury
United Kingdom
1954 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2021 : 08:18:08
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Tom.
Thanks very much for your offer of help. I will contact Lew and see what he thinks and get back to you.
Ian.
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I completed all the forms correctly, it’s a mystery to me why they sent it back. What did they expect to see in an X-ray of a dynamo ?
Regards to you both,
Chris |
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1481 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2021 : 10:03:17
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At a guess I would think that to the average x-ray machine operator there would be a similarity between a dynamo and a bomb i.e lots of wires and a central solid metal core. I have read somewhere that it is always best to describe an item being exported as a "vintage car part".
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i.thomson
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/10/2021 : 11:29:16
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It's asking a lot of an x-ray operator who has no experience of what a "vintage car part" may be and even less room for discretion to be able to decide what is safe and what is not. After all he/she is acting to keep us safe, or that is the official line, and we all want that don't we? If simply labelling something "correctly" worked the bad guys would be doing just that. These problems are the cost of of relying on technology to provide the answers to our every fear. Perhaps we need to learn to like and trust each oher before this quest for security eventually overwhelms us.
Ian
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Oz34
United Kingdom
2495 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2021 : 21:04:25
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Thanks Chris. I always thought this was a non-starter! I seem to remember these are 26k each....both ways.
Cheers,
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