Posting PF48. Persistence and politeness pays off.

[angrybear]

[QUOTE=Gavlar;7301224]Went to my local post office today to post the MFR I've just sold. Told the posty it had to go PF48 and he asked me what was in the package. "An air rifle" says I. "You can't post those" he says, after perusing his laminated restricted items sheet. After a couple of minutes trying to persuade him otherwise I went home, dug up the 'restricted items' page of the Parcel force website, and armed with my iPad, I returned to the post office and showed it to him. Good as gold, he asked if he could take a screen shot of my iPad on his phone, exclaiming that he had never been aware of this before. I offered to take the parcel elsewhere if he wasn't happy, he would have none of it and duly accepted the parcel.

The moral is, be polite, arm yourself with a copy of the facts and educate your local posty.[/QUOTE]

Exactly,
it's easy and that's the problem dealt with.

[gothicsera]

You can send air weapons through normal post too - it's a restricted item, not a prohibited one - it's even on Royal Mail's website

https://personal.help.royalmail.com/...detail/a_id/94

The only things prohibited are Section 5 and illegal weapons.

I'm not sure where the PF48 thing came about?

Guns intended for sporting purposes - including Section 1 (e.g. hunting rifles) and Section 2 (e.g. shotguns) firearms, low-powered air weapons and their component parts - may be sent in compliance with UK law and subject to domestic controls on the possession of firearms. Antiques, deactivated and imitation firearms are also permitted. When sending deactivated firearms include proof of deactivation.

Items that appear to be prohibited weapons may be subject to additional checks and delays. Please see www.royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods

Use 1st Class as the minimum service. The sender’s name and address must be clearly visible on the outer packaging.

I've recently received 2 rifles through PF and both arrived perfectly safely, mostly as a result of the good packing by the sender!

[angrybear]

You can send air weapons through normal post too - it's a restricted item, not a prohibited one - it's even on Royal Mail's website

https://personal.help.royalmail.com/...detail/a_id/94

The only things prohibited are Section 5 and illegal weapons.

I'm not sure where the PF48 thing came about?



I've recently received 2 rifles through PF and both arrived perfectly safely, mostly as a result of the good packing by the sender!

Because ParcelForce who are a different company to RoyalMail state that the only PF service for guns is PF48 it's that simple.

[gothicsera]

Because ParcelForce who are a different company to RoyalMail state that the only PF service for guns is PF48 it's that simple.

I'm aware of that, but there seems to be a general thinking that PF48 is the only option. When both Royal Mail and many other couriers will actually quite happily carry air weapons