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Parcelforce Error with Import Charges
aburobert replied to Phoenicia's topic in Postal and Delivery Services
If you go down the re-send route make sure the sender uses the correct declaration form on the package the CN22 Customs Declaration on any future packages. If the value is $10 US it must be declared as such not just a figure 10 with a Dollar sign. Should you have future problems and you regularly buy this item you will need to contact the Postal Customs and ask why they are levying duty on the item and how the duty payable is arrived at. Some items from outside the EU attract very high rates of duty and your item may be such an item. I have had similar problems before importing collectable items from Kuwait (used postage stamps) where some bright spark in the postal customs must have spent hours opening my packages counting the face values of the used stamps and levying duty on the total. Instead of paying duty for £50 of material I ended up with demands for several thousand pounds per package. After providing invoices and copies of trade advertisements they did levy the correct duty which I then paid - but I lost the processing fee! -
Parcelforce Error with Import Charges
aburobert replied to Phoenicia's topic in Postal and Delivery Services
Unfortunately you will not get anywhere with Parcelforce. Your only option if you want the item is to pay and reclaim the fees but you will lose the Parcelforce processing/administration fee. Probably the best thing is for you to tell Parcelforce to return the item and you will pay nothing. If the sender is willing to ship again get them to do that - but let them know you have asked the item to be returned. Parcelforce should return the item - if they do not they are on a sticky wicket as the item is not theirs to dispose of. I believe under UPU regulations the item should be returned to the sender but with so many private companies now involved in the transmission of mail I'm not sure how relevant these regulations are any more as they applied to Government postal agencies. -
As Dx states not worth the paper it would be printed on. Did you pay extra for the extended warranty? If yes - claim the money back. If no - forget it as you have SOGA protection anyway.
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Postal Order - you do not want them to know any of your banking or financial details unless you are forced to divulge them.
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I would be tempted to ask for my re-direction fees back as the Post Office failed to provide the service that you paid for as well as asking for compensation for their incompetance - and don't let them fob you off with a book of stamps like they usually do!
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A lot of the problems with offences caused by foreign registered cars is the inability to access EU data bases due to the governments refusal to sign up to whatever Protocol is was that allowed EU wide access to member states vehicle registration data.
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Maybe register your car in the Irish Republic? Isn't there a requirement though for UK residents to register a foreign plated car inside a certain time frame? So unless you spend time travelling in your vehicle overseas on a regular basis to re-register in another jurisdiction would be self defeating.
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Can you prove your connection to the area for the last 25 years? For example old utility bills with you name and address in the area, bank/credit card statements, employment or benefits records etc. Usually they are asking for relatives in the area to show you have family connections and roots. I had the same problem with my local council when I returned to the UK after being repatriated from Iraq just before the first Gulf War. As I had taught in the area, went to school in the area as a kid I could prove a connection - it also helped my local newspaper gave me plenty of publicity as well as my local MP at the time jumping on the publicity bandwagon. So I managed to eventually get social housing.
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DWP back their sanctions with make believe
aburobert replied to SabreSheep's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
Just noticed this interesting article - its probably caused a few blushes: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/iain-duncan-smith-under-pressure-6276811 -
Not too sure this is the right forum - if not please shift to a more suitable one. I came across this article when researching successful court actions against Paypal: http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/simon-read-is-paypal-right-to-freeze-customers-accounts-2360058.html Is there an easy way to locate/find this case so it can be quoted in a future action against Paypal. Will writing to Milton Keynes County Court elicit any response? Or perhaps contacting the Independent? The case took place in 2011 so is already becoming ancient history!
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What is the position with those living in canal boats? I know of a retired couple who spend their lives travelling along the inland waterway network through the year. What happens to them when they can no longer care for themselves - they have no immediate family and no property?
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Couriers delivering to wrong address
aburobert replied to chelle123's topic in Postal and Delivery Services
As the contract is with the sender complain most strongly to them. It is not up to you to chase wrongly delivered packages unless you are the sender/shipper. These companies get away with their practices because many do not complain or give up at the first hurdle when they do. If more of their customers kicked up a fuss and insisted on compensation for poor service the more likely it is things will improve. The downside is that prices may go up as a result. -
Just received this from my local council:- "I refer to your recent enquiry about Japanese Knotweed. The Council would only become involved if it was located on land we own or controlled. It is more a matter between landowners to deal with it between themselves. I have provided some links below to the government websites which may be of assistance to you. https://www.gov.uk/prevent-the-spread-of-harmful-invasive-and-non-native-plants https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296930/LIT_2695_df1209.pdf" It looks as if the local property owners affected can only wait and see if this weed starts to break up the pavement and road and then see if the Council will show any interest, the landowner where it is growing takes action or a joint action is taken for damages caused by the weed against the landowner where it is growing. The weed has already spread to two adjacent properties. Or all can wait and see how long it takes for Section 4 of the Infrastructure Act 1915 to become law.
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Migrant crisis - solutions ?
aburobert replied to unclebulgaria67's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
One proposed solution? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11554161/How-Australias-migrant-policy-works-and-is-it-transferable-to-the-Mediterranean.html -
Migrant crisis - solutions ?
aburobert replied to unclebulgaria67's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
Free enterprise at its best!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11797363/French-police-powerless-to-stop-British-gangs-smuggling-migrants-from-Dunkirk.html -
UKCPS Parking Charge
aburobert replied to keepfighting1973's topic in Private Land Parking Enforcement
You do not need to prepare a defence until (if) they actually are stupid enough to issue a summons. -
It is they who accepted the items and the original fees paid - so I think it is up to them to prove you actually owe them any money and exactly what for. I doubt very much they incurred anything extra if your measurements were close to what you quoted them anyway. I often use couriers to shift stuff from the Irish Republic to the UK and all my measurements are approximate not exact and I have had no problems in over five years - but then again I have never used UPS.
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Thanks Ford - a very useful link.
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Thanks Unclebulgaria - I appreciate your input. Some of the local houses are Housing Association properties and I believe this weed has already spread into some of their properties so I will contact them as they will be affected by all this. As explained before the owner of the property really needs to have things explained in Urdu as his English is poor - our local Council does send messages out in this language as we have a substantial Urdu speaking population in the area. My Urdu is non existent and any approach by myself or other concerned neighbours may be viewed with some hostility particularly as we have some rather unpleasant 'white supremacist' types in the area who have been problematic in the past. I will also contact my local councillor and see if I can prise him off his backside and get him to do something.
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Thanks for all the links - all useful information. If my local council takes no action over this what are the options? The Infrastructure Act 2015 Section 4 is not law and cannot be used at the current time. Is there any current legislation pertaining to this pest plant growing in a private garden that can be used to get the council to take some sort of action - even if it is only advisory (which is what I am angling for rather than anything punitive) so the landowner is given the opportunity to remove the plant or, at least, get it under control?.
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Do note though - this is not law yet it is prospective!
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Anyone affected by this and similar pests or invasive species will find the Infrastructure Act 2015 Section 4 interesting reading: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/7/part/4
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Thanks - I obviously did not read closely enough to catch the name of the Act. Will look it up and have a read.
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Thanks Unclebulgaria. The reason I posted my concerns was Knotweed growing on the back garden of a nearby property - where it is spreading like wildfire. I doubt very much if the landowner is going to pay very much attention to myself and others attempting to draw his attention to the dangers of this plant - hence contact with the Environment department of the local council. The landowner/property owner is a Pakistani descent devote Muslim who tries to protect his and his families privacy - so keeps himself very much to himself. There may also be language difficulties here as well. Just cutting it down and bunging the cuttings into the green recycling bin is not the way to go - so I believe an 'official' approach by the Council or similar agency is the way to go where treatment, disposal, possible legal consequences etc. can be carefully explained in Urdu to the property owner. We also have a number of bull headed hot tempered types living in the area who may cause problems associated with this we can do well without. Regarding the variety - this is the 'nasty' one. Another neighbour - equally alarmed took a cutting that was growing over the property boundary to the Council for identification and they confirmed it was the virulent invasive type.
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The 'Telegraph' article is interesting. If local authorities now have the power to go onto private land to eradicate pests and invasive species without the landowners consent - where is this enshrined in law?
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