Suggestions for Blow Pipe imports

[J.R.]

I'm glad you're relieved, but did you need to do it so many times?

no forget I asked that!

I'm reliably informed Ruthie, that it happens with age !

[Scone Lover]

Does that mean I am going to do it more often as I get older?

Oh yes there is a God!!!!

[Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)]

Oh dear Scone Lover, you're just another one of them, aren't you?

And I had such high hopes...

[J.R.]

Oh dear Scone Lover, you're just another one of them, aren't you?

And I had such high hopes...

OF WHAT ????

[Scone Lover]

Actually I am getting high hopes too Ruth

Has anyone here used viagra?

[Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)]

No...

[peter2095]

My son got a genuine Malaysian blow pipe when he visited Brunei/Malaysia some years ago. It is about 6 feet of blow pipe with an 8 inch blade tied to the end, so that it is almost 2 metres long.
He managed to get it from Malaysia back to Buenos Aires where we then lived. He didn't take it to University in Guildford, as I suggested, and it travelled with us to Spain (part of our household effects).
Now that he has his own flat in London, we want him to take it back.
He claims that they won't let it on the plane, he had trouble in 1997, where it had to travel as hand luggage as it was too long to go in the hold, and he kept getting stopped for having a dangerous weapon.
I reckon he will have no trouble as it is pretty obvious and certainly not capable of being hidden, but he won't try.
It's almost too long to go in the car so how do we get it back to him.

I don't even think we can sell it on E-Bay.

Any suggestions?

You might be able to send it via courier (dhl prob best) as long as you declare it and your best bet would be to send it in two pieces or to make sure the blade is fully covered.

When declaring it, i would suggest that you don't write blow pipe but maybe something along the lines of Malaysian ornament.

[Scone Lover]

I worked for what is now Exel for ages and they are now DHL, I know from bitter experience of importing stuff from all over the globe, if your paperwork is not exact, you are likely to end in a world of trouble and that doesn't even go into the legality of CMR's

[Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)]

CMRs?

[Scone Lover]

It is a type of cross border insurance document. If it is not completed fully by all parties concerned then the haulier doesn't get paid. They can be a flaming nightmare because we don't use them in the UK except for international transport so most Brit hauliers fill them in wrong and the repercussions are just horrible. I once spent seven weeks talking to five countries all because my waehouseman wrote forks instead of tines when we exported some specialist forklift parts to Turkey

[Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)]

but that's what you're paid for!

ha ha! isn't this world a lovely place?!

[Scone Lover]

He was a very nervous little warehouseman for weeks afterwards because I was responsible for payrole too!

[Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)]

poor guy!

[Scone Lover]

I know but it made work fun for a while

[Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)]

oh well that's ok then

talking of work, I might have to go and get on with some... bye for now...