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I need a new water pump for my 55 series one original motor

and quote to send to australia


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In message <[email protected]>
"Adam Bryce" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need a new water pump for my 55 series one original motor
>
> and quote to send to australia
>
>
> Adam
>
>

We don't currently export outside the EU as a rule, because the
paperwork and getting the delivery right is a nightmare!
However, I'm in the process setting up to send stuff to
Auatraila/NZ (since neither are noted for reaching for their
lawyers at the drop of a hat). We can send stuff there
by Royal Mail now, but anything over 2kg is very expensive
and/or very slow (3 months plus!).
I'm currently talking to a courier who I hope can deal with
vast majority our parcels, as Royal Mail's new "volumetric"
idea is uttery unworkable for anyone not using standard sized
boxes, and in the process start sending stuff to selected
countries outside the EU.

Keep nagging me!

Richard
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:32:40 +0100, beamendsltd wrote:

> as Royal Mail's new "volumetric" idea is uttery unworkable for anyone
> not using standard sized boxes,

Apart from the price I wouldn't have thought there was that much
difference anything bigger than a VHS cassette box is a "packet".

I haven't check but I think the "pricing in proportion" only applies to
Royal Mail not to Parcel Force. The current overlap between Parcel Force
and the Standard Parcel rates offered by Royal Mail does cause confusion.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
On or around Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:32:40 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>
>We don't currently export outside the EU as a rule, because the
>paperwork and getting the delivery right is a nightmare!
>However, I'm in the process setting up to send stuff to
>Auatraila/NZ (since neither are noted for reaching for their
>lawyers at the drop of a hat). We can send stuff there
>by Royal Mail now, but anything over 2kg is very expensive
>and/or very slow (3 months plus!).

sent a 4kg parcel to alaska the other day, international datapost, collected
from here and got it to alaska in 3 days (where the USPS took 5 days to
deliver it) for about 62 quid. not cheap, but fast and tracked and 150 quid
compo if they lose it. 10 quid more gets you up to 500 quid compo.


>I'm currently talking to a courier who I hope can deal with
>vast majority our parcels, as Royal Mail's new "volumetric"
>idea is uttery unworkable for anyone not using standard sized
>boxes, and in the process start sending stuff to selected
>countries outside the EU.

some of the couriers use volumetric too. Hmmm. wrap it in strong plastic
and suck the air out and then use a displacement test to get the volume.
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On or around Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:00:52 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:32:40 +0100, beamendsltd wrote:
>
>> as Royal Mail's new "volumetric" idea is uttery unworkable for anyone
>> not using standard sized boxes,
>
>Apart from the price I wouldn't have thought there was that much
>difference anything bigger than a VHS cassette box is a "packet".
>
>I haven't check but I think the "pricing in proportion" only applies to
>Royal Mail not to Parcel Force. The current overlap between Parcel Force
>and the Standard Parcel rates offered by Royal Mail does cause confusion.

international datapost has volumetric pricing - it depends on the wieght
though - you either pay by weight or volume, depending on which is larger. I
think the same applies to standard parcels.

30x30x30 cm gives a volumetric weight of 4.5 Kg, ISTR.
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In message <[email protected]>
Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> On or around Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:00:52 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:32:40 +0100, beamendsltd wrote:
> >
> >> as Royal Mail's new "volumetric" idea is uttery unworkable for anyone
> >> not using standard sized boxes,
> >
> >Apart from the price I wouldn't have thought there was that much
> >difference anything bigger than a VHS cassette box is a "packet".
> >
> >I haven't check but I think the "pricing in proportion" only applies to
> >Royal Mail not to Parcel Force. The current overlap between Parcel Force
> >and the Standard Parcel rates offered by Royal Mail does cause confusion.
>
> international datapost has volumetric pricing - it depends on the wieght
> though - you either pay by weight or volume, depending on which is larger. I
> think the same applies to standard parcels.
>
> 30x30x30 cm gives a volumetric weight of 4.5 Kg, ISTR.

it depens on the firm exactly how they do it - with our current
courier the EU is on weight unless it's a daft parcel (e.g. an
exhaust) in which case they measure it - but the difference between
weight an volume charging is minimal unless it was spoiler or
something - but then the packaging would out-weigh the item
anyway!

Richard
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In message <[email protected]>
"Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:32:40 +0100, beamendsltd wrote:
>
> > as Royal Mail's new "volumetric" idea is uttery unworkable for anyone
> > not using standard sized boxes,
>
> Apart from the price I wouldn't have thought there was that much
> difference anything bigger than a VHS cassette box is a "packet".
>

It's not that simple - there's some templates that things have to
go through, plus envelopes over 24mm or something are not envelopes -
it's going to take the bloke at the post office *ages* to deal with
it (I'm bloody not - if RM want to do such a stupid thing then their
staff can dam well do the work).

> I haven't check but I think the "pricing in proportion" only applies to
> Royal Mail not to Parcel Force. The current overlap between Parcel Force
> and the Standard Parcel rates offered by Royal Mail does cause confusion.
>

The pricing overlaps are pretty stupid too - second class only goes
up to such a weight, first class can be cheaper than standard parcels,
etc etc. If the yuppie bloke who's "going to sort things out" would
care to spend a week with us he'd soon see why his company is in
chaos - it's because it is. I have a strong suspicion that going on
the proramme "Back To The Shop Floor" would be a real eye opener to
him - I really don't think he has a clue what and, more importantly,
how his company works - like so many who took part in that programme
he's just being presented with meaningless figures by managers who
don't care as long as it looks good. The prog about Caudwell was good,
he went back to his roots, attended a board meeting and pormpty
sacked most of his senior managers for doing just that - I seem
to recall he used the word "lying".

And don't get me going on "Lost" mail........

Richard

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> And don't get me going on "Lost" mail........

Or me! My wife sends out 20+ packages a week, it is pretty
commonplace for one a week to go "missing".

<winge warning!>

Not to mention our home postal delivery. Last week we had 5 letters
for other addresses. One day we had 4 letters: one was for the previous
owner (fair enough, even though they did move out 3+ years ago!) one was
a card saying that we had to go to the Sorting Office because someone
hadn't paid enough postage (why the postie couldn't bring the letter to
our door and take the 21p back with them instead of charging us an
extra £1 "handling fee" and forcing us to go over to the Sorting Office
I have no idea) the third item was for next door and the last item was
for an entirely random address! At least once a week we get post for
"Prospect Crescent" instead of "Prospect Avenue" - despite the postcode
being entirely different aside from the first two letters. (I've
actually got something from the Tax Office for her on my desk from
Friday waiting for me to re-post!)

Spoken to them countless times about it, with the usual "Yeah,
whatever." response - given up now.

<winge over!>

Matt
 
On 2006-06-18, Matthew Maddock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spoken to them countless times about it, with the usual "Yeah,
> whatever." response - given up now.

When I was a student, we got a pile of 30 letters and small parcels
pushed through our door in one go, addressed to towns all over
Britain! We phoned the post office, who weren't interested, then just
shoved the lot into the nearest pillar box.

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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:42:18 +0100, Matthew Maddock wrote:

>> And don't get me going on "Lost" mail........
>
> Or me! My wife sends out 20+ packages a week, it is pretty commonplace
> for one a week to go "missing".

I asume you are refering to dishonest buyers. Order something, wait a
fews days, complain it hasn't arrived (when it in fact has), get refund
from seller who then claims for lost item from the PO...

This is why my other half now sends everything by some form of "signed
for" service. The buyers seem happy enough to pay the extra cost. She
also sends about 20 items/week.

As for poor postal service. Ours isn't, it is excellent. You can almost
set you watch by the time the van arrives in the morning. Post arrives
virtually everyday regardless of conditions, and that includes roads
covered in 6" of snow and drifts several feet deep making the roads
single track. Conditions if they occured in the SE would be headline news
for days with questions asked in the house as to why "they" didn't do
something about it.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
> I asume you are refering to dishonest buyers. Order something, wait a
> fews days, complain it hasn't arrived (when it in fact has), get refund
> from seller who then claims for lost item from the PO...

That sort of thing is pretty rare really.

No, I mean packages going "missing" in the post. We get a lot of
parcels too and quite a few have gone missing coming to us. Not long
ago a post van tuned up with 13 parcels for us, posted on a variety of
days over the previous two weeks. The postman admitted that they were
so short staffed that they just couldn't deliver parcels on time so
were stocking them up and delivering them when they had staff avail.
Things do seem to have improved fairly recently on the parcel front tho.

> As for poor postal service. Ours isn't, it is excellent. You can almost
> set you watch by the time the van arrives in the morning. Post arrives

Are you joking?! Our post arrives anything between 9am and 4pm! Very
rarely does it arrive at a similar time daily. Now for the courier I
use, I can guarantee that he will arrive between 8am and 8.30am
every day, and if I'm sending something he will arrive at almost exactly
2.30pm, and this is to a private address as I work from home, not a
business address.

Matt
 
Matthew Maddock wrote:
>> I asume you are refering to dishonest buyers. Order something, wait a
>> fews days, complain it hasn't arrived (when it in fact has), get refund
>> from seller who then claims for lost item from the PO...
>
> That sort of thing is pretty rare really.
>
> No, I mean packages going "missing" in the post. We get a lot of
> parcels too and quite a few have gone missing coming to us. Not long
> ago a post van tuned up with 13 parcels for us, posted on a variety of
> days over the previous two weeks. The postman admitted that they were
> so short staffed that they just couldn't deliver parcels on time so
> were stocking them up and delivering them when they had staff avail.
> Things do seem to have improved fairly recently on the parcel front tho.
>
>> As for poor postal service. Ours isn't, it is excellent. You can almost
>> set you watch by the time the van arrives in the morning. Post arrives
>
> Are you joking?! Our post arrives anything between 9am and 4pm! Very
> rarely does it arrive at a similar time daily. Now for the courier I
> use, I can guarantee that he will arrive between 8am and 8.30am
> every day, and if I'm sending something he will arrive at almost exactly
> 2.30pm, and this is to a private address as I work from home, not a
> business address.
>
> Matt


We NEVER get our business mail before 11am, ****ers.
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We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!


 
Adam Bryce wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need a new water pump for my 55 series one original motor
>
> and quote to send to australia

If Richard can't help at the moment I can probably give you details of a
NZ based supplier.

--
EMB
 

"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Matthew Maddock wrote:
>>> I asume you are refering to dishonest buyers. Order something, wait a
>>> fews days, complain it hasn't arrived (when it in fact has), get refund
>>> from seller who then claims for lost item from the PO...
>>
>> That sort of thing is pretty rare really.
>>
>> No, I mean packages going "missing" in the post. We get a lot of
>> parcels too and quite a few have gone missing coming to us. Not long
>> ago a post van tuned up with 13 parcels for us, posted on a variety of
>> days over the previous two weeks. The postman admitted that they were
>> so short staffed that they just couldn't deliver parcels on time so
>> were stocking them up and delivering them when they had staff avail.
>> Things do seem to have improved fairly recently on the parcel front tho.
>>
>>> As for poor postal service. Ours isn't, it is excellent. You can almost
>>> set you watch by the time the van arrives in the morning. Post arrives
>>
>> Are you joking?! Our post arrives anything between 9am and 4pm! Very
>> rarely does it arrive at a similar time daily. Now for the courier I
>> use, I can guarantee that he will arrive between 8am and 8.30am
>> every day, and if I'm sending something he will arrive at almost exactly
>> 2.30pm, and this is to a private address as I work from home, not a
>> business address.
>>
>> Matt
>
>
> We NEVER get our business mail before 11am, ****ers.
> --
>
> Subaru WRX
> Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)
>
> We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!! Hi Group
I mark a lot of exam papers and it is not unusual for one lot to go missing.
I spoke to the lady behind the Post Office counter about it and was advised
NOT to send mail recorded delivery because that highlighted the fact that it
is valuable and therefore more likely to vanish! Can this be true?
Alan
>


 
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:04:34 +0100, Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:

> ...
> I spoke to the lady behind the Post Office counter about it and was
> advised
> NOT to send mail recorded delivery because that highlighted the fact
> that it
> is valuable and therefore more likely to vanish! Can this be true?

sure she wasn't talking about 'registered'?

so far as I know, 'recorded' is simply that, whereas registered gets some
insurance.

Has anyone considered marking each item "RM vs Courier Test - Mail
#5473"? just a thought.

--
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110 V8
 
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:21:39 +0100, William Tasso wrote:

>> I spoke to the lady behind the Post Office counter about it and was
>> advised NOT to send mail recorded delivery because that highlighted
>> the fact that it is valuable and therefore more likely to vanish! Can
>> this be true?
>
> sure she wasn't talking about 'registered'?
>
> so far as I know, 'recorded' is simply that, whereas registered gets
> some insurance.

All post is insured(*), OK 1st Class only up to the price of 10 1st Class
stamps but thats enough for small items.

Registered doesn't exist anymore it's now called "Special Delivery".
Recorded just gives each item a traceable number but not tracking apart
from it was delivered to... before... and the online service now
reproduces the signature. Again SWMBO'd has had recorded stuff returned
as "uncollected" but when the client is asked no card has been left,
curiously this only happens with address's in large cities...

(*)For general items, valuables, cash and fragiles not...

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:22:07 +0100, Matthew Maddock wrote:

>> As for poor postal service. Ours isn't, it is excellent. You can
>> almost set you watch by the time the van arrives in the morning.
>
> Are you joking?!

Nope, if the post hasn't arrived by 1000 I half worry if he has had an
accident. Those at the end of the round won't get their post until
lunchtimeish. We are fairly near the begining of the round those right at
the begining of the round will get their mail around 0830.

> Now for the courier I use, I can guarantee that he will arrive between
> 8am and 8.30am every day,

The various couriers also all arrive at roughly the same time for each of
them. DHL will be around 0845, Parcel Force 1630, several others don't
deliver direct but the minibus from the local that takes some of the kids
to school brings back and delivers parcels for them. I think some also
just drop at the garage and the "last mile" is done by the garage.

One advantage of being remote is that the drivers make damn sure they
deliver when they get out here. If they don't they'll just be doing the
hours drive in and hours drive back out again for the second attempt.

**** poor postal service is a feature of the big cities only as far as I
can tell. They have a huge turn over of staff, of the 5 or so posties
that deliver round here there has been no more than two new ones in the
last 7 years.

--
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Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:38:51 +0100, beamendsltd wrote:

> It's not that simple - there's some templates that things have to
> go through, plus envelopes over 24mm or something are not envelopes -

Yes, you can get a cardboard template sent to you free from the Royal
Mail website. A3 size with two colored areas starting from the bottom
left corner. Align item to bottom left corner:

Is the item within the red area (240 x 165mm)?
yes > Will fit through the 5mm slot?
yes > It is a "letter".
no > Will it fit through the 25mm slot?
yes > It is a "large letter".
no > it is a "packet".
no > is the item within the grey area (353 x 250mm)?
yes > Will it fit through the 25mm slot?
yes > It is a "large letter".
no > It is a "packet".
no > It is a "packet".

> The pricing overlaps are pretty stupid too - second class only goes
> up to such a weight,

Fairly sure 2nd class has an upper weight limit as is.

> first class can be cheaper than standard parcels, etc etc.

There are similar anomalies in the current system.

I think a lot of firms are going to get caught out by the size of the
"letter". One company then sends me lots of stuff, A4 folded once, uses
envelopes that are just bigger than "letter" size. If they don't spot it
they'll be hit with roughly a 10p increase per item (roughly 'cause they
use a franking machine so get a discount on stamp rates).

--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:21:39 +0100, William Tasso wrote:
>
>
>>>I spoke to the lady behind the Post Office counter about it and was
>>>advised NOT to send mail recorded delivery because that highlighted
>>>the fact that it is valuable and therefore more likely to vanish! Can
>>>this be true?
>>
>>sure she wasn't talking about 'registered'?
>>
>>so far as I know, 'recorded' is simply that, whereas registered gets
>>some insurance.
>
>
> All post is insured(*), OK 1st Class only up to the price of 10 1st Class
> stamps but thats enough for small items.
>
> Registered doesn't exist anymore it's now called "Special Delivery".
> Recorded just gives each item a traceable number but not tracking apart
> from it was delivered to... before... and the online service now
> reproduces the signature. Again SWMBO'd has had recorded stuff returned
> as "uncollected" but when the client is asked no card has been left,
> curiously this only happens with address's in large cities...
>
> (*)For general items, valuables, cash and fragiles not...
>

I used to live in a little market town mid-way between Nottingham and
Derby (Long Eaton for the curious), and the Post people were lovely.
Very short-staffed, extremely ****ed off with the management, very
apologetic when the second post was cancelled and the delivery promise
went from "by midday" to "by 4pm", but if something went missing (which
was rare) they worked hard to find it for me. I never lost an exam
script package, and even a year after I had moved to France (and the
international redirectiona had finished) I rang up one day to chase a
parcel that mother-in-law had sent by accident to the old address, and
they found it and sent it on, having remembered who I was! Greta
service, but they felt totally let down by the decisions made by people
"higher up".

Stuart
 
> Yes, you can get a cardboard template sent to you free from the Royal
> Mail website. A3 size with two colored areas starting from the bottom
> left corner. Align item to bottom left corner:

When is this new system coming into force? I've not had anything
measured as of yet! I can imagine the queues at the Post Office
when it does and I turn up with two carrier bags full of parcels
of varying bizzare shapes and sizes!

Matt
 
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