Border Force

[novioman]

Are Border Force stopping gas & Co2 mags as well. Mines been held up for ages without any reason given.

[Lyndication]

No

[GiantKiwi]

2 hours ago, novioman said:

Are Border Force stopping gas & Co2 mags as well. Mines been held up for ages without any reason given.

 

Sometimes it'll sail through in hours, others you might wait weeks.

[Anonymoose]

2 hours ago, novioman said:

Are Border Force stopping gas & Co2 mags as well. Mines been held up for ages without any reason given.

 

Which carrier is handling it? Stuff can get caught up if it's marked as airsoft even if there's no complete RIFs inside. I've had this with UPS a couple times.

[enzo47]

recently my steel bolt was hold by custom just cause it was labeled airsoft related. 

Ups made me fill out a declaration. asked for ukara  reason why I was purchasing it and whole other bunch of Questions.  is thats just ups ........I never had that before . I had ring them up chase down till finally someone knew why it was on hold. 

[novioman]

1 hour ago, Anonymoose said:

 

Which carrier is handling it? Stuff can get caught up if it's marked as airsoft even if there's no complete RIFs inside. I've had this with UPS a couple times.

Royal Mail

I emailed E Hobby Asia who I ordered from and asked if they put toy parts or the actual details on the declaration. They did list it as a Co2 mag along with the price etc. But, and I’am not sure if this is a problem, they choose ‘gift’ rather than sale of goods. I would have thought it they choose gift they shouldn’t have put down a value. 

Edited Monday at 19:28 by novioman

[Nick G]

22 minutes ago, enzo47 said:

recently my steel bolt was hold by custom just cause it was labeled airsoft related. 

Ups made me fill out a declaration. asked for ukara  reason why I was purchasing it and whole other bunch of Questions.  is thats just ups ........I never had that before . I had ring them up chase down till finally someone knew why it was on hold. 

ups are a fucking nightmare in my experience.

[hitmanNo2]

UPS can either be an absolute shit show or as smooth as anything.  My last RIF with UPS sailed through from HK in a matter of days.  I didn't have to fill in any stupid FPS declaration or answer any silly questions.  Odd how there's such a variance in experiences with them. 

[Tommikka]

1 hour ago, novioman said:

they choose ‘gift’ rather than sale of goods. I would have thought it they choose gift they shouldn’t have put down a value. 

Genuine gifts still have a value 

When crossing international boundaries  there is a different threshold for taxes and duties on gifts 

 

The potential problem with the Chinese habit of marking as ‘gift’ is that it is a fraudulent customs declaration, and an obvious fraud

However customs are used to it, they will just get to it when they get to it

[MistakenMexican]

10 hours ago, novioman said:

Royal Mail

I emailed E Hobby Asia who I ordered from and asked if they put toy parts or the actual details on the declaration. They did list it as a Co2 mag along with the price etc. But, and I’am not sure if this is a problem, they choose ‘gift’ rather than sale of goods. I would have thought it they choose gift they shouldn’t have put down a value. 

you should probably read the HMRC website. It’s all laid out there.

 

In short, there’s no such customs code as “CO2 magazine” - they might have put the item description as CO2 mag, but that’s largely irrelevant.

 

Just because it’s listed as a gift, doesn’t mean it’s immune from customs charges, since we left the EU, everything is subject to customs charges. Even if it’s listed as a gift between two private individuals.

 

Finally - border force have a massive backlog at the moment of about 2 weeks, so if it’s stopped for inspection or customs charges, it might take as long as two weeks. My last order sat at customs goods in for 2 weeks but was processed within 30 mins of being scanned in at customs.

[novioman]

On 02/09/2025 at 06:31, MistakenMexican said:

you should probably read the HMRC website. It’s all laid out there.

 

In short, there’s no such customs code as “CO2 magazine” - they might have put the item description as CO2 mag, but that’s largely irrelevant.

 

Just because it’s listed as a gift, doesn’t mean it’s immune from customs charges, since we left the EU, everything is subject to customs charges. Even if it’s listed as a gift between two private individuals.

 

Finally - border force have a massive backlog at the moment of about 2 weeks, so if it’s stopped for inspection or customs charges, it might take as long as two weeks. My last order sat at customs goods in for 2 weeks but was processed within 30 mins of being scanned in at customs.

I was more concerned that Border Force might think I and the seller were trying to avoid custom charges by declaring it as a gift, I would prefer they put down it was a purchase not a gift.

Where did you find out about BF having a 2 week back log.

[Lyndication]

Too late, dog already shot 

[TheFull9]

5 hours ago, novioman said:

I was more concerned that Border Force might think I and the seller were trying to avoid custom charges by declaring it as a gift, I would prefer they put down it was a purchase not a gift.

 

Wouldn't worry about that, there's probably 10000 packages a day coming in to the country where the declarations aren't correct. Been that way forever.

 

Though everything I import personally I of course 1000% ensure the declaration is perfect and inscrutable in its' validity and precisely accurate on valuation to the 1/10th of a penny. If necessary I sneak in to the processing facilities with correctly printed forms like Sam Fisher, use a nano-laser cutter on the little adhesive transparent wallet, extract the dirty, lying paperwork, insert the beautiful correct paperwork then heat seal the plastic again using a micro glue that's invisible to the human eye or even indeed any scanning machines.

[novioman]

1 hour ago, TheFull9 said:

 

Wouldn't worry about that, there's probably 10000 packages a day coming in to the country where the declarations aren't correct. Been that way forever.

 

Though everything I import personally I of course 1000% ensure the declaration is perfect and inscrutable in its' validity and precisely accurate on valuation to the 1/10th of a penny. If necessary I sneak in to the processing facilities with correctly printed forms like Sam Fisher, use a nano-laser cutter on the little adhesive transparent wallet, extract the dirty, lying paperwork, insert the beautiful correct paperwork then heat seal the plastic again using a micro glue that's invisible to the human eye or even indeed any scanning machines.

I worry about you.😂

[Anonymoose]

1 hour ago, TheFull9 said:

 

Wouldn't worry about that, there's probably 10000 packages a day coming in to the country where the declarations aren't correct. Been that way forever.

 

Though everything I import personally I of course 1000% ensure the declaration is perfect and inscrutable in its' validity and precisely accurate on valuation to the 1/10th of a penny. If necessary I sneak in to the processing facilities with correctly printed forms like Sam Fisher, use a nano-laser cutter on the little adhesive transparent wallet, extract the dirty, lying paperwork, insert the beautiful correct paperwork then heat seal the plastic again using a micro glue that's invisible to the human eye or even indeed any scanning machines.

 

I, on the other hand, love it when they lie about the contents and say it's a "car air freshener" and a £5  "gift" so i skip import tax. Ayooooo

[TheFull9]

*submits anonymous report to HMRC*

 

A large, asthmatic man called Kevin who wears glasses with dirty lenses and talks entirely through his nose will be knocking on your door shortly.

[rayan]

I had two VFC stanags and a bolt carrier valued under £135 (including postage) get held up for 8 days waiting for customs clearance via Parcelforce in the last couple of weeks. 

Usually these make it through in a couple of days so it was a bit annoying.

 

I do wonder if part of it is due to the RM/PF systems merge which might be slowing things down at the moment.