Thread: ebay UK razor ban?

Originally Posted by Traveller

My local Post office will not allow me to ship Straight razors to the UK any longer.Best regards GAry

Put the word razor on the shipping label and you'll be fine.

Originally Posted by Kees

Put the word razor on the shipping label and you'll be fine.

+1

I put shaving razor on the customs declaration form and it's never an issue.

Isn't Europe fun. They banned guns. Now after many knife attacks, they can't get guns, ban knives. What's next rocks over 2 inches in diameter? Oh... the people who were attacked with knives could not protect themselves because guns are illegal. It is interesting to see how the "Civilized" part of the world lives.


Later,
Richard

That sucks! Is it just to the UK that you cant dispatch? Did they give a reason?

Regards,

Nobby

I can't understand why your post office won't allow you to send straight razors to the UK. They certainly aren't illegal here, unless you start waving them around in the pub!

Anything can be an offensive weapon in the eyes of the law here. Not what it is, it's what you do with it. Only a couple of years ago the police shot dead a bloke carrying a chair leg wrapped in paper, thinking it was a gun!

Originally Posted by Traveller

My local Post office will not allow me to ship Straight razors to the UK any longer.Best regards GAry

I believe the standard solution is to call them "shaving supplies."

Originally Posted by Galopede

Anything can be an offensive weapon in the eyes of the law here. Not what it is, it's what you do with it. Only a couple of years ago the police shot dead a bloke carrying a chair leg wrapped in paper, thinking it was a gun!

I remember getting into a debate on this.
One of these is the chair leg in question. The other is a shotgun. Can you guys tell which is which and how would you feel if someone was waving one around menacingly?

Shaving Supplies is what one of our most respected members / founder uses .
I've not bought any razors off ebay for a wee bit tho .. I really hope they haven't extended the knife ban to razors , it's getting absurd now ..


Garry

Originally Posted by riooso

Isn't Europe fun. They banned guns. Now after many knife attacks, they can't get guns, ban knives. What's next rocks over 2 inches in diameter? Oh... the people who were attacked with knives could not protect themselves because guns are illegal. It is interesting to see how the "Civilized" part of the world lives.


Later,
Richard

Yeah, that works great here in the US. We never have attacks, only justified, cowboy style shootouts. And the good guy always wins.

Originally Posted by riooso

Isn't Europe fun. They banned guns. Now after many knife attacks, they can't get guns, ban knives. What's next rocks over 2 inches in diameter? Oh... the people who were attacked with knives could not protect themselves because guns are illegal. It is interesting to see how the "Civilized" part of the world lives.


Later,
Richard

Great .. taking our rocks ..!!!! bang goes all my hones ;-)
for future ref: when selling hones to the uk please class them as fossilised tools

the Nanny State awaits

Cheers Garry

Jason01 was nice enough to send me one of the Welsh rocks that he dug up from an old quarry. From UK to the USA. He listed it as a "geological specimen". Of course that is what it is and he could have said rock or whatever and it wouldn't have been an issue. I have a razor coming from Perth, Australia. I don't know what the seller listed it as on the form but he had no problem at the post office mailing it.