Excessive charges on post - Page 3

Roland wrote on Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:09am:

Trouble is this sort of thing is not widely publicised & people just keep on getting caught out.

Lyn33 wrote on Wed Nov 23, 2022 12:47pm:

Don't buy anything from uk Amazon and discourage all your friends from sending things from uk.  I always look either on amazon.es  or Amazon de (Germany) you may have to pay a small delivery charge from Germany but goods usually arrive in 1 or 2 days, depends on what they  tell you...

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... at the time of paying.  Never had any problem so far, nor had to send things back.  

Lyn33 wrote on Wed Nov 23, 2022 12:47pm:

Don't buy anything from uk Amazon and discourage all your friends from sending things from uk.  I always look either on amazon.es  or Amazon de (Germany) you may have to pay a small delivery charge from Germany but goods usually arrive in 1 or 2 days, depends on what they  tell you...

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... at the time of paying.  Never had any problem so far, nor had to send things back.  

subfiver wrote on Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:00am:

There is a fee for 'clearing customs'; this is to assess whether duty is payable or not. This fee is payable whether any duty is applicable or not.  As far as I'm aware this is charged on anything other than a simple letter. 

Other carriers (DHL, FedEx, etc) who may be responsible for customs clearance have different fees for this 'service'...

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Mags44 wrote on Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:00am:

My son-in-law sent us a jar of his home-made jam and paid extra in the UK post office to supposedly cover any customs costs but when the parcel finally arrived in Spain about three weeks later, Correos sent us a form to fill in with all the details of the contents of the parcel, plus a whole list...

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... of other questions. We filled in the form and gave the value of the parcel as 2€, which would be the cost of a jar of jam, and returned it to Correos. 10 days later, we received a demand via Correos from the Aduana, demanding 58€ to cover the cost of additional postage, taxes, customs duties, and "handling". The "handling" was the largest part of this bill! We declined and told them to send the parcel back from whence it came! It took another 3 weeks for the parcel to be returned to sender but it did arrive eventually. We picked up the pot of jam personally when we went to the UK the following week and advised our family never to post anything to Spain again!

Pinkie123 wrote on Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:22pm:

I know.  We had the same problem. We sent over a remote control (no batteries as that only complicated things on Custom's Sheet!) and when that was delivered it was about 18 euros for the recipient to pay!!  Downright robbery.  I don't know whether they're being awkward due to us c...

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...oming out of Europe but it seems that way.  Damn robbers!!

eviedoll wrote on Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:34pm:

Do you have to have a separate Amazon account as I buy from Amazon.es