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Mattdub:
I won some bits on the bay , posted in November , yet to arrive  :tickedoff:

Coastvl:
I've got parts from the UK and the US. Vert-ego stuff was here in 5 days :shocked:. Tires from Earls stuff, pedals and stacks of other stuff. Nothing has taken anymore than 14 days. Airmail rocks!  :daumenhoch: Oh and I'm in australia.  :coolsmiley:

MartyC:
In the UK our ever so helpful and friendly Customs and Excise department like to take their time looking over stuff joe public has imported.  A mate of mine works at Customs at Heathrow Airport and he reckons that there is such a backlog of work priority is given to stuff imported through airfreight companies as they chase it through whereas mail services just get what they are given.

Also, they (customs) like to open stuff up a lot to see whether it really is what the airway bill says it is and that it ain;t illegal.  All in all they don't add much value, and like the old bill are another revenue generation scheme  :tickedoff:

Still, I got a set of tyres from Ginny Rini in about two weeks which isn't too bad!  :LolLolLolLol:

Marty

toooldforthis:
I got a set of redline decals from Ginny in a week  :daumenhoch:

Still not got the bike to put them on yet though  :tickedoff:

 :angrysoapbox:

greentoad:
Hi

I just got another 16" ride from the US delivered today. It was purchased in mid February.

There are numerous pros and cons in surface mail and air mail, time, price (+ additional paypal charges), customs charges etc etc.

My package today was quite a few weeks over the USPS 4 to 6 weeks. However, for the money that I paid and I did not pay any charges to UK customs, this was the best option for this particular bike -

1, It was very cheap and needs a total restoration (shipping was a lot more than the purchase price so I didn't want to spend even more for airmail)

2, I thought that it might have some good, hard to find and valuable items on it that where not listed in auction (which it did ;) ) so didn't want to spend many many more times the bikes value on shipping in case the seller worked out what he had and gazumped me.

From what I gather it takes different times to get from different states in the US to the docks etc, then they all need loading and of course ships have to go with the weather (tide, wind etc).

Hoping that it works out for you, but in general if the seller has your details correctly, has filled in all the forms that you have requested correctly it is usually okay from the USA. I have far so always recieved my items (Eastern Europe is a different story, but that was with work).

Hope this helps.

J.

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