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MG Midget and Sprite General - Shipping to UK

I am needing to ship a couple small Midget parts (less than a pound) to a bloke in the UK. No idea what the preferred method would be or how to indicate used auto parts or whatever. I do not want him to unnecessarily incur VAT charges, etc. if they are not legitimately required. No, I do not know the ins and outs of VAT and when it gets charged; sales tax is bad enough for me. Anyway, I suspect the US Post Office is probably best, but I figured someone else out there has already made these mistakes and I can benefit from their experience ;-)
David "trying not to make ALL of the mistakes" Lieb
David Lieb

David, I shipped some stuff over for a friend there and just used a prepaid USPS package. Listed it as used auto parts and declared the value and there were no taxes or VAT involved. I used the smallest international pre paid package they had, cost around $13 as I remember. Goes slow boat or so they say, but I think it really went by air as the package arrived pretty quickly. The rules change if a business is shipping the stuff, but private citizens can ship without a lot of duty and such for small value items and not have to go through all the customs forms. The only form I filled out was a declaration form similar to what you get on an airplane and that was part of the shipping label at the post office.
B Young

Bill

Issnt that the same friend that recently became homeless without a mention or word....LOL

Sorry...just kidding

seriously ...can you still ship up to 70 lbs ...if it fits, it ships, or is that just domestic only... that is a good post office program.
Prop

Prop,
The weight limits for domestic are very different from the ones for international, but yes, this is the eBayer's choice ;-)
David "yes, something good from the USPS" Lieb
David Lieb

This thread was discussed on 02/03/2011

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