Royal Mail... Robbing B*stards

[KevSki]

That'll cost you the mighty sum of £1.02
Bloody £1 administration fee...

Correct...someone sent me a birthday card...10p short so they wannna charge me ...£1.10p! F**K off!

The way things are goin they will be sold off.....prob with good reason....
Unfortunatley some French company will buy em out

[soforene]

But y'all know that anything to do with lasers is expensive.
Even getting something delivered to a house where there are lasers.

[stanwax]

I have experienced this also and its nearly as annoying as when they stick a card through the letterbox when you are out at the side of your house with the lawnmower/hose etc. and withing 10 feet of the door and they bugger off without even attempting to find you.
And the customs racket goes on with the couriers too - DHL are the best - they chase me up for unpaid duty by telephone and in the past this has happend on the day I got the invoice through the post and once on the day before the invoice arrived. The invoices take about 3 weeks to come and have a DHL Mail logo on them. I suggested to them once to put a first class stamp on it and post it rather than rely on a poor quality service like DHL mail. I dont think she got the joke!

Rob

[smokeAndMirrors]

My last delivery from the US - galvos and a 200mW green DPSS - was thrown over my 6ft garden fence, despite requiring signing for. I phoned them Royal Mail types up and let them know just how happy I was. Luckily the goods were undamaged (I think - still trying to sort an issue out with the laser).

[tocket]

The Swedish postal service is nearly as bad in this aspect. They charge a handling fee of 100 SEK on packages from the US, this is nearly 9 GBP! Add customs and tax (25% VAT in Sweden) to that and you may well end up doubling the actual cost of the item. Luckily, the fee is "only" 63 SEK for the rest of the world... I think what you're actually paying for is the storage space that makes it possible to delay the package 3 days

As for DHL... they really are the best choice in Sweden. Given the choice I'd pick them any day. Their drivers even call you up in the morning to check the delivery details.

[AudioVisualizers]

That's nothing. When I was in my teens, I ordered an electronic kit valued at $19.95 USD. It was shipped from the USA to me in CANADA via UPS standard, and by the time they added the $35 brokerage fee, the $20 paperwork processing fee, the federal tax & the provincial tax, and the advance payment on your behalf and the BS fee, the total came to over $100 CDN. Ever since that day I have refused to accept any packages from UPS. They still suck. (at least for USA to CDN shipments), nowadays, I mainly import stuff from China via DHL, and ship it to my USA customers with Fedex Ground or Fedex economy. No BS there.

[VJ AIWAZ]

hey David (audiovisulizers) glade to see you here

i can remember talking to you back in the day

but i will say your site has been one of the most informative and helpful sites i have ever used for video/vj related info

[AudioVisualizers]

Hey thanks VJ AIWAZ ! ... It's been a little slow lately ever since I switched to mac I haven't been doing a ton of webdesign, (being good at frontpage on xp), but gradually hope to get back into the swing of things bit by bit.

Off topic on the thread, but if any people that do lasershows wish to create themselves a promo page on our community site, feel free: http://community.audiovisualizers.com

It's mainly for VJ's doing visuals but also for laserists too, it's all related. A few laserists already have community pages on the site, you can look for examples if you want: http://community.audiovisualizers.com/Laserimage
http://community.audiovisualizers.com/nusalt
http://community.audiovisualizers.com/DmT

anyway, chat soon all!

[VJ AIWAZ]

this is my old page that my partner Dennis put up on your site a long long time ago

http://community.audiovisualizers.com/smoke+and+mirrors