Customs Sticker?

dudara

I recently sold a DVD on eBay to a guy in the states. Will I have to get one of those green customs stickers and put it onto the packaging?

SouperComputer

yea, more then likely. anything I have sent that is not going to the UK I have been asked to put a sticker on. Even for other EU countries.

I try and get a few of them so I can have them labelled before I get to the post office.

dudara

Thanks for that. Bugger though, getting to the post office is going to be a bi*ch

rubadub

I wouldnt bother, that guy was only asked since he must have been going to the post office. We send stuff all over the world from work with no notices. Never even knew we had them in ireland TBH.

Just write contains dvd on the back if you are worried, that should be enough, just like writing airmail if you have no sticker.

SouperComputer

rubadub wrote:

I wouldnt bother, that guy was only asked since he must have been going to the post office. We send stuff all over the world from work with no notices. Never even knew we had them in ireland TBH.

Just write contains dvd on the back if you are worried, that should be enough, just like writing airmail if you have no sticker.

Do you send a lot of parcels runadub?

My head is wrecked going to the post office with 20 packages and waiting for it to be sorted?

parsi

After 911 it became a requirement even for EU post that a customs sticker (cn22) be put on declaring what's in the package. Makes little or no sense after all if its dodgy you're hardly going to write that...

http://www.anpost.ie/NR/rdonlyres/CDB4304E-878E-4CC6-B606-C0AC943D8883/0/APNewServicesGuide.pdf

add: http://oasis.gov.ie/public_utilities/postal_services/postal_services_in_ireland.html - here it mentions that for security reasons bulky items have to have their contents described - thats why most POs look for the cn22 I suppose..

rubadub

SouperComputer wrote:

Do you send a lot of parcels runadub?

I send out a few and never have trouble getting through to the US where most of mine go.

In work I see them going out all the time, mostly to the UK and EU and never see customs slips on them, nor any description.

SouperComputer

aye, but what I mean is do you pay for them at the post office, or do you have an account setup?

rubadub

SouperComputer wrote:

aye, but what I mean is do you pay for them at the post office, or do you have an account setup?

No, no post office near. I just dump them in with the post at work, or weigh them myself and calculate what the postage must be and put them in a letterbox.

If you are having going to the post office with a large package then I do not see the problem with having to get a slip since they will have them.

dudara

rubadub wrote:

In work I see them going out all the time, mostly to the UK and EU and never see customs slips on them, nor any description.

I wouldn't think that you'd need customs slips for the EU, but I'm posting to the states. I can put it through the franking machine at work you see (after paying for it), and pop it into the work post, rather than having to go to the post office.

dudara

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rubadub

dudara wrote:

I wouldn't think that you'd need customs slips for the EU, but I'm posting to the states. I can put it through the franking machine at work you see (after paying for it), and pop it into the work post, rather than having to go to the post office.

We send outside the EU too, but usually by courier, I still see no slips. One thing is for sure, you are better sending stuff in jiffy bags rather than a parceled up box. Sounds wierd but it is true, any hassle we have with customs is with packages, after rining DHL and other couriers they always advised me to put it in jiffy bags. Think it passes through regarded as documents that way.

BTW if you pick advanced while editing you can delete the post

dudara

Thanks, I think that I'll go the Jiffy bag route then, and see how we get o