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anyone tell me who is best to go with for sending a Martini Henri to a bloke down country, which ones will twist if it looks like a rifle etc, my package is fairly non gun looking.

send it via a rfd


greenshoots

But it's not a firearm and that would end up costing me £50

Probably Parcel Force.

Redcat

costs me £25 to send via rfd shop around

greenshoots

greenshoots wrote:costs me £25 to send via rfd shop around

greenshoots

When I've done it they want £25 each end

In the case of a firearm the receiving RFD usually makes a charge (unnecessarily in my opinion) for the paperwork - entering the firearm into a register then on to the buyer's FAC - all of 10 minutes work. In this case there is no paperwork so should be nothing at the receiver's end. OK, he might have to sign for the parcel and hold it for a couple of days - a fiver would be a generous payment.

Redcat

I would agree with the RFD route these days, its getting harder to send unrestricted firearms (deacs, Sec58) in the post with some post offices refusing to deal with them at all.

A sign of the paranoid times we live in unfortunately.

well I dropped it off yesterday at my local post office , middle of nowhere village, all wrapped in brown paper outside of cardboard and bubble wrap, and named my self gazoo antique bundhooks ltd, sending to john smith antiques so we will see, my story if asked what an antique bundhook was, that it is victorian objet d'art and hope to leave it at that. wait and see if it gets returned to me.

good luck, hopefully all will be fine, definite trend against anything firearm related these days though, particularly if it has to fly at any part of its transit.