Overseas Shipping Question

**Pleater** · 18th February 11, 05:29 PM

By the way - I regularly send items to the US using the Post Office 'small packet' rate and the normal transit time is under a week.

We have recently lost an item, but it is the first one, and suspect that the recent dreadful weather is to blame.

In the past several years we must have sent a couple of hundred packets and parcels using Post Office services.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**tpa** · 18th February 11, 05:30 PM

The link has got abbreviated, but as this is not a commercial post, I'm sure no one will object if I attempt to give it again . I would certainly not recommend using Royal Mail if you can avoid it, their compensation is not worth the paper it is written on.

http://sg.royalmail.com/portal/rm/Pr.../rm/search.jsp

**Sammac** · 18th February 11, 05:39 PM

I've had a couple of items go through Royal Post/USPS and have always gotten them in 10 to 12 days.

**Clansmen** · 18th February 11, 07:10 PM

@ Pleater, It was sent just as a Royal mail small packet, The lady at the post office advised me to split the items into seperate bags, then she charged for postal of each seperately but the total was £34.82 don't know if that helps.

**Pleater** · 19th February 11, 05:57 PM

Thank you for clearing that up, Clansmen, the two separate parcels must have each been under 2Kg, so no problem with the weight limit.

I seem to have only HDL as an option for the 8Kg parcel if I wish to pay under 50 UK pounds to get it to the US.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: