Royal Mail international services

[Orcs]

The best delivery I had from abroad was from Simons soldiers in Sydney Australia. Ordered Tuesday afternoon. Arrived the following Monday morning.  Postage cost £7.50.

[Daldnoa]

Finally I got my parcel! A month from Royal Mail and another month at customs. Not bad at all

PS: these models are great.

[kustenjaeger]

I had one from Spain sent in November 2021 which had not arrived by late January so the seller replaced the package which duly arrived some weeks later. In April the original package appeared - with UK Border Force stickers having been opened.

What they made of 1/72 British and Japanese figures and kit I do not know.

When I offered to return or pay for the original package the seller told me to keep it as it was too difficult to return.

Edward

[Heedless Horseman]

It is several years back, but regularly ordered Takara 1/144 from an Ebayer in Japan. Item would usually arrrive in UK, mabe 4 days after purchase...and postage was about same as UK Second Class!

[pierre the shy]

It is several years back, but regularly ordered Takara 1/144 from an Ebayer in Japan. Item would usually arrrive in UK, mabe 4 days after purchase...and postage was about same as UK Second Class!

I had similar timeframes in the past with stuff coming from the UK or US to NZ - about a week to get here usually. Things from UK are still a bit mucked up, but they do get here in the end.

Postage charged was/is highly variable. Some places used to want up to an additional 50% of order value for "postage and handling" so in some cases you REALLY had to want to get the desired items. 

[Heedless Horseman]

Have just been idly sniffing around Ebay YES, I KNOW! but had no intention of buying anything...TONS of stuff already. USA postage is prohibitive... but Canada £8.24, not all that bad really, considering what a Letter Stamp now costs!