AddressPal & Lockers - An Post's Parcel Service SEE MOD WARNING FIRST POST

Really quick on the US Service - Parcel delivered by Fedex and email from Addresspal 90 mins later and Tracking now shows it Left Polar Express a further 1 hr later, The Item was $129 (Discounted from $199) and they valued it at $25, The same Item here is almost €300 - Another excellent saving on a premium product.

They open the box and if there is no invoice they just guess - I purchased this from Home Depot on sale for $129 (No Invoice in the Box)- Addresspal valued it at $25 !

No Invoice is working for me, All my US Home Depot orders have been way underestimated and I have saved about 2 grand,

Any talks of AddressPal reducting their fees...... €6.50 +€3.50 = €10 fees to deliver from UK is still alot on a <€50 item in UK (and then VAT + DUties on top!). A lot of my purchases are less than €20 so its just unecominical for em to buy in UK any more.

If this fell by half... it be worthwhile for me to come back to buying in UK again!

Til then I just use Amazon ......

Shopping in the UK is dead in the water. I bought a coffee maker last week from Amazon.de and it cost €11 to post over. Still worth it although I forgot about the continental plug. 🙄 Can't wait for the Irish Amazon to open.

Just double checking addresspal is still functional and good to go at present?

Still functional - I use both sides of the Atlantic regularly. If you think they are expensive check out the courier prices ! Its the old story - many retailers are just not willing to post overseas so we are stuck with forwarding agencies like Addresspal. The main problem I found is getting the retailer to enter a complete and accurate address. Send a message with the order stressing this. If the address is faulty Addresspal will hold a package in Limbo until you enquire about it.

Just what we need - even sh1ttier jobs from sh1tty employers, because our own employers aren't quite sh1tty enough.

For me in Dublin, its usually a week to delivery when it arrives in the UK AddressPal and 10-14 days in the US AddressPal.

Of course they should be open 7 days / week. Pop them an email - you might get a response after a few days.

Customs charge for everything (outside of items on the VAT-free list like books) from the UK so its not down to Addresspal - there are no waivers anymore. You must be lucky with the US outfit as I've been sent a customs charge for everything since the new customs rules have come in (albeit with Addresspal US sometimes taking wild swings at the declared value - usually in my favour when it does happen)

New to AP, used to use PM.

The UK depot should have received my package on Wednesday last. I bought on ebay UK but their tracking says it's out for delivery still. Was posted on 3rd May.

Anyway, the question is when the UK address location receives the item, does that show up in your addresspal account as received. PM used to do something like that so you knew it was received by them and on the way?

Also it is liable for a customs charge, how long does that roughly take to be processed?

Hi

I am thinking of having my friend in new york ship me send me some dried food products and use addresspal.

However I'm afraid that addresspal with value it very high and I will have to pay a large amount of tax on it.

How are addresspal valuing things and is there an option to fill in the value yourself ?

The US service has been fine with valuations for me; it's the UK side that overstates valuations.