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lexbubbles

Aesop wrote: »

they xray them and will destroy them. I know someone who sent over £100 worth of nail varnishes abroad as a gift for someone. The PO didn't check what he was sending and when the items went through royal mail they xrayed and destroyed the parcel.

The poor sender was only notified they had been destroyed

guttted is not the word. This is why I stick with couriers for most items as can see what they will and will not accept.

I know myhermes just weigh parcels, they don't xray.

But my local PO are horrific! they never check what is in your parcel! I always have to say it is a single nail varnish please put on the special sticker! say with mobile phones that are being sent for repair. Have to make sure I tell them. otherwise it will get destroyed.

I won a job lot of nail varnish for like £27 before I moved house (probably about 30 polishes some of them expensive like Nails Inc) and apparently the PO never asked the sender what was in it because it never arrived and I can only assume it was destroyed.

Really don't think it's fair to destroy parcels where it's clearly the PO who haven't done her job. Granted under the stupid regs that job lot would have had to be sent out in 10 parcels :eek: what with there being a max of 3 each but it being all in one clearly shows the PO didn't do their job - why punish us for it? It's nonsense anyway - what would the difference in """danger""" be if I received 10 parcels of 3 polishes or 1 with 30?

I sent a gift box of 5 polishes to a friend for christmas once and had to open it and separate it which rather ruins the effect

lexbubbles

Aesop wrote: »

£5 received from receipt hog, I only claimed last night, it has taken a few months though to get to redemption.

£2 from slidejoy :j

I've gotten into the habit of stealing left-behind receipts in the self-serve at tosco and m*rrisons for receipthog :rotfl: you can only do 3 per retailer per day but taking mine and grabbing 2 that have been left behind (there's always a pile of the things sticking out of the machine) gets me some more points :money:

lexbubbles

Checked my credit report on Noddle this morning and I've gone from 1/5 with a rating of 300-something to 2/5 and 552 :j

Slowly repairing it

Aesop

lexbubbles wrote: »

I've gotten into the habit of stealing left-behind receipts in the self-serve at tosco and m*rrisons for receipthog :rotfl: you can only do 3 per retailer per day but taking mine and grabbing 2 that have been left behind (there's always a pile of the things sticking out of the machine) gets me some more points :money:

yes have DS wombing when we are walking along the high street

rylee12

£5 received from receipt hog, I only claimed last night, it has taken a few months though to get to redemption.

You've just reminded me to scan all my receipts from the past couple of days and I have been slacking.

Spent the morning returning unwanted Christmas gifts and now have a whopping £12.50 to add to my monthly total. Still got some more to do but ran out of time before I had to pick DS up from nursery. Might see if I can squeeze a couple in before his swimming lesson this afternoon.

Aesop

lexbubbles wrote: »

It's nonsense anyway - what would the difference in """danger""" be if I received 10 parcels of 3 polishes or 1 with 30?
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it's the quantity, it makes it flammable

" Flammable liquids

This includes mixtures of liquids or liquids containing solids in solution or suspension which give off a flammable vapour. Any liquid with a closed cup flash point below 60.5° C is prohibited e.g. acetone, benzene, cleaning compounds, gasoline, lighter fuel, paint thinners and removers, petroleum and solvents, certain alcoholic beverages, perfumes and aftershaves, varnishes and enamels including nail varnish"

lexbubbles

Aesop wrote: »

it's the quantity, it makes it flammable

" Flammable liquids

This includes mixtures of liquids or liquids containing solids in solution or suspension which give off a flammable vapour. Any liquid with a closed cup flash point below 60.5° C is prohibited e.g. acetone, benzene, cleaning compounds, gasoline, lighter fuel, paint thinners and removers, petroleum and solvents, certain alcoholic beverages, perfumes and aftershaves, varnishes and enamels including nail varnish"

Nail polish is flammable in any quantity, though. It doesn't magically become flammable when you have more than 3 bottles of it together. So again, sending 10 packages with 3 in them at the same time is no more dangerous than one package with 30. That's not how flammable things work. One bottle is flammable.

They also aren't prone to spontaneous combustion, and I should hope royal mail aren't in the habit of handling naked flame around my post. Since that's the only way they're going to catch fire.

I've read the prohibited rules, I know why they're apparently prohibited but the point stands that it makes absolutely no sense - especially when combined with such an arbitrary quantity. I mean, nail polish comes in different sized bottles for one. 3 bottles of 13ml polish (39ml) isn't "flammable" but 4 bottles of 6ml (24ml) is?

And, again, if the packages are all sent together (as they would be) then if one somehow spontaneously combusts it's still gonna take all the others with it. It's complete nonsense and either way the consumer loses out to it - either by paying massively hiked postage costs because separating bottles 3 and 4 by a bit of paper makes them not-flammable anymore, or by having the package destroyed as a failure on the PO's part.

Interestingly, if you buy nail polish from Superdrug, Boots, Models Own etc online and have it delivered you can have as much nail polish as you want in the same package. I got a dozen from Ciat! the other week in the same box. So it's only flammable when Royal Mail do it :rotfl: which raises some serious questions about their package handling.

I don't buy nail polish from any person or company who uses Royal Mail anymore because it is just them who have that rule which in and of itself shows what nonsense it is.

(And before anyone says "it's because of what you can take on planes because post might go by plane" - I take more than that with me in hand luggage every time I fly, so no)

Sorry for being really salty about that, I just get mad that RM get away with such nonsensical statements and charge people through the nose for it in the hopes they won't notice.

Aesop

lexbubbles wrote: »

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I don't buy nail polish from any person or company who uses Royal Mail anymore because it is just them who have that rule which in and of itself shows what nonsense it is.

(And before anyone says "it's because of what you can take on planes because post might go by plane" - I take more than that with me in hand luggage every time I fly, so no)

Sorry for being really salty about that, I just get mad that RM get away with such nonsensical statements and charge people through the nose for it in the hopes they won't notice.

I did google to see what level makes it flammable and found loads of posts saying that other companies use couriers etc and send them out, so why does RM limit them.

but then some couriers won't transport certain items that RM does and other couriers do.

lexbubbles

Yeah it really doesn't make any sense. If something was actually dangerous to transport, nobody would do it.


My Christmas package from L's dad/step-mum (my "adoptive" family I guess) arrived this morn. Got a new purse (how do they always know?!) and £50 :j

Surfchik80

lexbubbles wrote: »

I don't buy nail polish from any person or company who uses Royal Mail anymore because it is just them who have that rule which in and of itself shows what nonsense it is.

Not that I don't agree with the ridiculousness of this (I do 100%!!), but I have a sneaking suspicion it all boils down to which postal/courier services are willing to pay higher insurance premiums in order to carry so called 'high risk' items and what hoops they have to jump through to legitimise it under the terms of business. Lets be honest, it's almost always the insurance companies that make everyones life difficult in the background!

If I'm completely wrong however, please don't shoot me for making a wildly sweeping assumption on it. Like several others here, I'm up to my eyeballs with the flu so I admit I'm far too giddy to research it! :rotfl: