Gabhal Luimnigh Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 46 minutes ago, irishmail said: How long would you normally wait for delivery after customs/VAT paid. Last item I had was delivered next day but seems like Anpost have gone on a go slow again. No update on tracking since yesterday morning. Paid yesterday morning and got email receipt and conformation and stated they would now 'deliver' my parcel. 04 July 2024 11:29 Customs charges have been paid. Your item will be processed and delivered as soon as possible. 04 July 2024 11:21 A customs charge has been applied to this item and details have been sent to you. The fee can be paid on our website, or at your local post office. 02 July 2024 18:25 Item information received from the sender/retailer 9 days last month for me, too frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 Got an email from Royal Mail telling me " Your parcel LG**********GB from ELLIS JAMES CLARK has now arrived in Ireland. Checked An Post Track and Trace and got this " Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12" No shortage of updates from Royal Mail! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 Latest update on mine, will not be getting it till monday now at the earliest. Last time I paid a customs charge on a Thursday I had item delivered next day. Seems Royal mail and Anpost delibreatly hold things up for no reason! 05 July 2024 11:59 We have your item and will process it for delivery DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 05 July 2024 11:57 We have received your item DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 04 July 2024 11:29 Customs charges have been paid. Your item will be processed and delivered as soon as possible. 04 July 2024 11:21 A customs charge has been applied to this item and details have been sent to you. The fee can be paid on our website, or at your local post office. 02 July 2024 18:25 Item information received from the sender/retailer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabhal Luimnigh Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 1 hour ago, irishmail said: Latest update on mine, will not be getting it till monday now at the earliest. Last time I paid a customs charge on a Thursday I had item delivered next day. Seems Royal mail and Anpost delibreatly hold things up for no reason! 05 July 2024 11:59 We have your item and will process it for delivery DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 05 July 2024 11:57 We have received your item DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 04 July 2024 11:29 Customs charges have been paid. Your item will be processed and delivered as soon as possible. 04 July 2024 11:21 A customs charge has been applied to this item and details have been sent to you. The fee can be paid on our website, or at your local post office. 02 July 2024 18:25 Item information received from the sender/retailer Anpost don't have your parcel yet, it's still with revenue until they release it to anpost, that's the hold up every time, I discovered that through a lot of research. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOGUL Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 36 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said: Anpost don't have your parcel yet, it's still with revenue until they release it to anpost, that's the hold up every time, I discovered that through a lot of research. Revenue don’t physically have the parcel, it’s just takes An post a few days to register the payment, file the customs entry and release the parcel for delivery 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Got this this morning from Royal Mail Your parcel from ELLIS JAMES CLARK has now arrived at your local office and is being processed for delivery. .............................................................................................................. So I checked An Post tracking and my package is indeed out for delivery today. I will inform NASA when the Eagle has landed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 (edited) NASA the EAGLE has landed. Just to confirm this Royal Mail just sent me this.."You have received your parcel LG............ from ELLIS JAMES CLARK ." Edited July 8 by spudfan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 (edited) This gets stranger by the day. I got a customs demand this morning for a package from Roads & Rails. I checked back through the tracking & it's the same package that An Post told me they were sending back to the sender on 30th June. It seems that someone with a head on their shoulders decided to let it go through. They really are just making this up as they go along The problem is that we can't really trust them anymore as we don't know what they want. Tony. EDIT. Well my UK packet finally arrived after being round the houses in An Post for the past few weeks. I reckon the automatic sorting was throwing up too many rejections so they sent in a human to investigate. Edited July 12 by amdaley 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 ICS2 Destination... My last two parcels of Bulleid Opens were delivered yesterday, a good week or two after the first arrived. Both of these parcels were held back by Customs in Madrid, then released, no contact or anything, just held back and subsequently released. Both are labelled as "ICS2 Destination", but nothing else was labelled as such. My understanding would be that mainland Spain is an ICS2 destination, as with the rest of the EU. As Canarias have their own Customs and tax regime due to their autonomy, are they also an ICS2 destination? Or was that likely a labelling error, and the reason behind the subsequent delay? Or does anything passing through the EU before going to a non-EU destination need such labelling? I can't remember ever seeing an "ICS2 Destination" label on a parcel here before. Normally, for Canarias, the An Post staff behind the counter have to fill out an AED, basically a digital declaration, and the parcel must also have a physical CN23 decalaration attached. If either is missing or incomplete, or the info on the two conflict, the parcel will be rejected and returned to the sender. Does ICS2 mean that a third declaration is now required for Canarias, the ENS or whatever it's called? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 4 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: ICS2 Destination... My last two parcels of Bulleid Opens were delivered yesterday, a good week or two after the first arrived. Both of these parcels were held back by Customs in Madrid, then released, no contact or anything, just held back and subsequently released. Both are labelled as "ICS2 Destination", but nothing else was labelled as such. My understanding would be that mainland Spain is an ICS2 destination, as with the rest of the EU. As Canarias have their own Customs and tax regime due to their autonomy, are they also an ICS2 destination? Or was that likely a labelling error, and the reason behind the subsequent delay? Or does anything passing through the EU before going to a non-EU destination need such labelling? I can't remember ever seeing an "ICS2 Destination" label on a parcel here before. Normally, for Canarias, the An Post staff behind the counter have to fill out an AED, basically a digital declaration, and the parcel must also have a physical CN23 decalaration attached. If either is missing or incomplete, or the info on the two conflict, the parcel will be rejected and returned to the sender. Does ICS2 mean that a third declaration is now required for Canarias, the ENS or whatever it's called? Must of left the EU at some stage on its Journey. The EU's new advance cargo information system ICS2 supports implementation of this new customs safety and security regulatory regime aimed to better protect single market and EU citizens. It will collect data about all goods entering the EU prior to their arrival. Economic Operators (EOs) will have to declare safety and security data to ICS2, through the Entry Summary Declaration (ENS). The obligation to start filing such declarations will not be the same for all EOs. It will depend on the type of services that they provide in the international movement of goods and is linked to the three release dates of ICS2 (15 March 2021, 1 March 2023, and 3 June 2024). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 30 minutes ago, Georgeconna said: Must of left the EU at some stage on its Journey. The EU's new advance cargo information system ICS2 supports implementation of this new customs safety and security regulatory regime aimed to better protect single market and EU citizens. It will collect data about all goods entering the EU prior to their arrival. Economic Operators (EOs) will have to declare safety and security data to ICS2, through the Entry Summary Declaration (ENS). The obligation to start filing such declarations will not be the same for all EOs. It will depend on the type of services that they provide in the international movement of goods and is linked to the three release dates of ICS2 (15 March 2021, 1 March 2023, and 3 June 2024). Everything for me follows the same route, has forever: Dublin - Portlaoise - Dublin - Heathrow - Madrid - Huelva - Taco - local delivery. So did these two pop over to China or somewhere on their way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOGUL Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said: Everything for me follows the same route, has forever: Dublin - Portlaoise - Dublin - Heathrow - Madrid - Huelva - Taco - local delivery. So did these two pop over to China or somewhere on their way? You never fail to provide weird and quirky situations for us Dave! A new one for me, I wonder if they were applied in Heathrow(outside the EU) to be allowed into Spain.. Must check the tracking on your order out of curiosity but at least they got to you.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 5 minutes ago, MOGUL said: You never fail to provide weird and quirky situations for us Dave! A new one for me, I wonder if they were applied in Heathrow(outside the EU) to be allowed into Spain.. Must check the tracking on your order out of curiosity but at least they got to you.. LOL, I find new ways to motivate you... Five points if you can name the source of that quote. Only two of the Bulleid Open parcels had the ICS2 labels, the two that were delayed at CAM4 Madrid. The rest arrived a week or two earlier, with no ICS2 labels, hence my confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 It’s strange how much ‘suffering’ people have to endure in order to receive their IRM purchases. Living in the UK, or Brexitstan as it is known in some quarters, I have experienced no problems whatsoever. Is that the experience of others in the UK? Stephen 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 25 minutes ago, StevieB said: It’s strange how much ‘suffering’ people have to endure in order to receive their IRM purchases. Living in the UK, or Brexitstan as it is known in some quarters, I have experienced no problems whatsoever. Is that the experience of others in the UK? Stephen LOL, “suffering” is a bit extreme. The UK haven’t caught up with the rest of the world for customs and importation, yet. When they swallow their BrExit pride and start checking thoroughly, it’ll be the same as everywhere else. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Since Brexit we’ve had to learn all about customs and importation. Stephen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Just had VAT demand from Anpost customs for my latest Railtec transfer order. First time this has happed with Railtec, but can't complain as VAT is deducted when ordering. One issue to be aware of is Anpost is increasing its admin fee to €4.95 from 9th September!! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 21 hours ago, irishmail said: Just had VAT demand from Anpost customs for my latest Railtec transfer order. First time this has happed with Railtec, but can't complain as VAT is deducted when ordering. One issue to be aware of is Anpost is increasing its admin fee to €4.95 from 9th September!! Still Cheap for an Entry but extra cost not welcomed, I find myself dipping into European model shops nowadays. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 22 hours ago, irishmail said: Just had VAT demand from Anpost customs for my latest Railtec transfer order. First time this has happed with Railtec, but can't complain as VAT is deducted when ordering. One issue to be aware of is Anpost is increasing its admin fee to €4.95 from 9th September!! Like everything with AnPost. Costs go up but service in still poor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinner75 Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 Just don't order from the UK if you can help it - simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 14 minutes ago, skinner75 said: Just don't order from the UK if you can help it - simple Not easy for some items though that are not available here in Ireland or elsewhere in the EU. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 20 hours ago, amdaley said: Like everything with AnPost. Costs go up but service in still poor Think Anpost should be renamed 'Failpost' My order from Railtec was posted 23rd August, Anpost received item on 30th , got notification for customs charge on Tues 3rd Sept which I paid and then told item will be delivered. Now two days later still no delivery. Hopefully will arrive tomorrow!?? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Still no delivery today, just been onto Anpost and they say it can take 3- 5 days before customs release items!! Two weeks today since letter posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 I have just got a notification from An Post for customs charges to be paid. The administration fee from An Post is €3.50. It's from Rails of Sheffield. I will let you know when it arrives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Past-Avenue Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Hi guys. I got one on Tuesday from Anpost €3 50 +€1 25 vat from New Zealanda. Paid it Wednesday morning and parcel arrived this morning. Enda 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 On 6/9/2024 at 5:31 PM, Past-Avenue said: Hi guys. I got one on Tuesday from Anpost €3 50 +€1 25 vat from New Zealanda. Paid it Wednesday morning and parcel arrived this morning. Enda Still waiting for mine. Anpost have had the item since 30th August, paid customs 3rd September and still not delivered. Contacted anpost customer services yesterday and was told it is still in customs!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BosKonay Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 13 minutes ago, irishmail said: Still waiting for mine. Anpost have had the item since 30th August, paid customs 3rd September and still not delivered. Contacted anpost customer services yesterday and was told it is still in customs!!!! There is apparently a bit of a backlog at the moment, as well as the closer we get to the holidays, the worse things will likely become. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 15 minutes ago, irishmail said: Still waiting for mine. Anpost have had the item since 30th August, paid customs 3rd September and still not delivered. Contacted anpost customer services yesterday and was told it is still in customs!!!! Sounds like Customs up in Ireland have been taking lessons from Customs in Madrid! 3 minutes ago, BosKonay said: There is apparently a bit of a backlog at the moment, as well as the closer we get to the holidays, the worse things will likely become. Only eleven odd weeks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, then another three to Christmas. How does the time pass so quickly??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Snail Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 46 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said: Only eleven odd weeks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, then another three to Christmas. How does the time pass so quickly??? Wha?? that means .... only 105 shopping days till Christmas!! Eeek!! I've got nothing sorted yet Better get moving on my list for Mrs. Snail Santa or I'll miss the train 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 59 minutes ago, Flying Snail said: Wha?? that means .... only 105 shopping days till Christmas!! Eeek!! I've got nothing sorted yet Better get moving on my list for Mrs. Snail Santa or I'll miss the train Don't worry, DJD has you covered: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/en-eu/collections/in-stock?sort_by=price-descending 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said: Don't worry, DJD has you covered: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/en-eu/collections/in-stock?sort_by=price-descending Are you on commison Dave? Lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 2 minutes ago, irishmail said: Are you on commison Dave? Lol. Hefty kickbacks from Heljan and IRM for abusing my power, sssshhhhhhhhhh... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 10 hours ago, irishmail said: Still waiting for mine. Anpost have had the item since 30th August, paid customs 3rd September and still not delivered. Contacted anpost customer services yesterday and was told it is still in customs!!!! My package finally arrived today after sitting in Dublin for 11 days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 Mine arived today. Paid charge last Friday. Funnily enough I checked the tracking number this morning and this is what it said " 06 September 2024 15:04 Customs charges have been paid. Your item will be processed and delivered as soon as possible" Still says that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinner75 Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I ordered a wheelbarrow wheel from Amazon - from bony Scotland. First one got stopped by Customs & returned, due to no paperwork. Offered a refund, or to try again, I said go again. Wheel has been sitting in Customs since 3rd Sept, and will most likely be returned again. I'll be asking for a refund this time! On Amazon - they have a massive distribution centre built here, but no Irish site. If you order from .co.uk, you get hit with the fun above. They really need to get the .ie site up n running. For now, it'll be back to amazon.de for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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