British rations- price check

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Re: British rations- price check

Post by SNiiP3R » Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:55 pm

I guess I'll go ahead and pull the trigger! Mainly because it's getting harder to find them. The surplusandoutdoors.com is completely sold out, Ebay US has 0 of them listed.

I'm just worried about the size and number of rations, I've never ordered that many before. Even though I know that some of you folks here ordered 10 and more from overseas with zero problems.

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Re: British rations- price check

Post by cavguy » Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:17 pm

Dealing with customs is always a gamble, true true!
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Post by SNiiP3R » Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:31 pm

What's the worse case scenario? The case will go back to UK? or they seize and destroy it ? (eat it obviously)
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Post by housil » Sat Sep 03, 2016 5:49 am

SNiiP3R wrote: Full case of ORP's, all 10 menus. The $226 includes shipping.
Includes shipping? A bargain!! Buy it!!
Scotsman1984 wrote: These rations do not contain any fuel like MREs so that should not be an issue.
But they contain "food" and any meet (pork, poultry, beef, also dairy ) is prohibited to bring into the US.
What's the worse case scenario? The case will go back to UK? or they seize and destroy it ? (eat it obviously)
They dump it and charge you for


Buy it but consider it as lost so you be happy if you get it even though. :wink:
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Post by SNiiP3R » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:16 am

housil wrote: They dump it and charge you for

Buy it but consider it as lost so you be happy if you get it even though. :wink:

Another words, if they seize the goods, they don't just send you a letter by mail stating that this and that is prohibited to enter the country, instead they send you a fine?
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Re: British rations- price check

Post by TechManDan » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:16 am

Personally I would be cautious and find out what shipping company they are going to use. The average price of a single British ration is about $50 with shipping and buying bulk will drop the price down considerably, just exercise caution. Are they a company or someone on ebay? If they ship via the post office it should be fine. If they use Pitney Bowes, aka global shipping program, abort immediately. The last time I got an awsome deal it was seized by the shipper Pitney Bowes under some bs reason.
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Post by SNiiP3R » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:54 am

TechManDan wrote:Personally I would be cautious and find out what shipping company they are going to use. The average price of a single British ration is about $50 with shipping and buying bulk will drop the price down considerably, just exercise caution. Are they a company or someone on ebay? If they ship via the post office it should be fine. If they use Pitney Bowes, aka global shipping program, abort immediately. The last time I got an awsome deal it was seized by the shipper Pitney Bowes under some bs reason.
Just someone I found on the internet, not a company. They ship via MyHermes. I'm not familiar with this shipping company, but it's popular in the UK.
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Re: British rations- price check

Post by cavguy » Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:36 am

Never heard of that shipping company... But they have a bunch of weird named ones in the UK. Worst case, that i have heard - they confiscate your rations. There is another shipping company called Parcel Force that I have used with good luck from stuff coming from the UK.
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Post by housil » Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:44 am

"Hermes" is a regular company over here like DHL, just a worse service... :mrgreen:
https://www.facebook.com/myHermesdelivery/

German Hermes only delivers into EU. Didn´t know the British "My Hermes" also delivers to the USA.
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Post by parafireboy » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:53 pm

cavguy wrote:Never heard of that shipping company... But they have a bunch of weird named ones in the UK. Worst case, that i have heard - they confiscate your rations. There is another shipping company called Parcel Force that I have used with good luck from stuff coming from the UK.
I've had very good luck with Parcel Force as well. I've never had any issues with them.
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