Posting (An Post) Airsoft Labeling?

ACW

I am sending someone an airsoft device in the mail, should I declare it or say as such on the box to prevent confiscation/issues. Or stay stum and hope it isn't randomly xray-ed?

Rooky1

ACW wrote: »

I am sending someone an airsoft device in the mail, should I declare it or say as such on the box to prevent confiscation/issues. Or stay stum and hope it isn't randomly xray-ed?

Are you sending it to someone in Ireland?
If you are they are legal so there should be no problems at all!
I have posted to many different parts of Ireland without problems.
Never needed to declare what I am sending.
The only thing I have declared is the value when sending it by registered post.:)

ACW

Yes, in Ireland. Cool. Thanks for help.

Fyr.Fytr

Yep you only need to make a customs declaration on goods being sent outside the EU. Other then that just the value if registered post, witihin ireland your grand

Stercus Accidit

Make sure its registered post.

senordingdong

Frankly I think you're mad to declare what's in it, and more so to declare the items value.

The staff at an Post seem to have awfully sticky fingers.

TerrorFirmer

I assume that's the one to me right? Just parcel it up and send, don't worry about anything else. I've sent and received up to 100 airsoft weapons and other related items through an post and never had any issues, frankly I'd be extremely surprised if you ever had an issue once it was wrapped in a way that any tom dick or harry can't see what's within the parcel. I'll be sending the gear to you just double wrapped in black wrapping.

buzzymcg

I work for An Post & what I'd do is send it registered and advise the value for the item. It won't get stroked. Or send it parcel post won't be insured but you will get a tracking number and usually next day delivery and cheap. Never seen anything being nicked and I worked with some right scumbags.

senordingdong

buzzymcg wrote: »

I work for An Post & what I'd do is send it registered and advise the value for the item. It won't get stroked. Or send it parcel post won't be insured but you will get a tracking number and usually next day delivery and cheap. Never seen anything being nicked and I worked with some right scumbags.

Sorry, I didn't mean to generalise.
I have family working on An Post!

Masada

my sister used to work in the sorting office years ago, heard some right aul story's about stuff getting stroked.,:D

buzzymcg

Don't worry about it there's bad apples everywhere (people not taking there hits for example).

trentf

Yeah An Post used to be pretty bad for things going missing, but over the last few years they seem to have beefed up on security and deliveries so its pretty rare nowadays things get robbed, customer service is still a joke though. If you ring and ask about parcel tracking one guy tells you one thing and another guy tells you another , I think they just make it up as they go along :pac:


Then again, no service is 100 per cent secure, and they do come up with some elaborate schemes to get their grubby hands on your items. I've had a guy at a popular parcel delivery service who won't be named for legal reasons, get someone to show up at my door and try and take a package away with no receipt given, no uniform, a toyota corolla parked outside and a skangar accent. He told me he was requested to pass on the parcel to the 'guy in the service van who's just to busy down the road with deliveries to collect himself'. Rightly so, I told him to f off and reported him and his associate to the complaints dept.

Best advice is actually send it registered post, get a tracking number and always insure it. Confiscation won't happen because airsoft is legal, the only problem i could see if someone saw it and mistook it for a real gun but if you pack it well and don't be stupid about how you do it i.e clear wrapping plastic, not blurting out to the cashier what it is etc then they won't see it and you don't have to describe the item just put down toy because thats what airsoft is classified as in ireland. It's really a non issue ive sent and recieved many airsoft items and they've always arrived no problem by an post.

Mr B. Wooster

Don't be cheap - send it registered and insured so its safe, you also get a tracking number too!

An Post are great, and in my humble experience are better than most of the couriers out there with their strange delivery times/dumping it in a random neighbours house and leaving me to search for it.




Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

trentf

definetly insure it