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We get more enquiries about
shipping than anything else!
We ship 99% via ordinary mail
services. It is by far the cheapest and perfectly reliable and safe. However,
sometimes the Post Office can cause confusion.
Airmail : Usually will be delivered
worldwide in around 7 working days. Though any security scare or similar
may add time. We would consider airmail to have failed after about 3 weeks.
Surface Mail : This is the
service that causes the most confusion.
Surface usually takes between
6 weeks and 8 weeks to arrive in USA or Canada. Parcels to Australia and
New Zealand often take up to 12 weeks or more. However, very often parcels
will get 'upgraded' to airmail by the Post Office if they have space in
an air container at that time. This is an entirely random thing and always
causes confusion when one parcel arrives early and others do not. Although
your items are shipped together on the same day at the same time, they
ALWAYS get split up in the postal system and are treated individually.
Rest assured that your remaining item(s) will be still on the way and
will arrive.
We would not consider a US/
Canada surface item lost until after about 10 weeks.
We try to pack every item to
withstand the Post Office playing football with it and breakages are extremely
rare.
We will pack suitable items
together but only up to a certain value and weight (2 Kilograms). By doing
this, we ensure that your parcels slip through the customs net of MOST
countries (unfortunately not Canada, sorry!). We have only had ONE US customer
report being charged any duty and that was on a large parcel by carrier, not PO.
If you order several items
from us you will receive a succession of parcels. It does seem odd but
please believe us that it is the cheapest way!!
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