Teoretically ALL packages should be taxed, but do you imagine the amount of packages from china? It will be impossible, so they will get attention to the bigger packages or the ones with a high declared value.
I see my tracked stuff has now left Hong Kong - with any luck it will get here this week. I have one from DX, 1 from Lightake and 3 from Manafont.
I've been suffering from lack of new lights :(
I've not heard how the EU regulations will effect the post here. The Royal Mail certainly hasn't said anything about it.
So I had a look on their website and found this:
All mail that enter the United Kingdom may be examined by customs, but normally letters, postcards and packets containing only documents or similar forms of correspondence are excluded.
If you are receiving a package from overseas (unless it’s from another EU Country), please be aware that it may incur customs charges. Any package assessed by HM Revenue and customs as being liable for customs charges will also incur a Royal Mail handling fee of £8.
Any goods imported into the UK over the value of £18 are liable to import VAT. Gifts between private individuals over the value of £40 are also liable for VAT. Goods and gifts over these values may also be liable for customs duty. You no longer have to pay customs duty for goods up to the value of £135, however you will still be required to pay import VAT and excise duty where applicable.
Please note that these limits do not apply to alcohol and tobacco goods where both excise duty and import VAT may be charged. It is not permitted to send alcohol and tobacco products into the UK from another EU country unless prior arrangements have been made to account for the excise duty.
For more details please read the Royal Mail guide to receiving goods from overseas. You can also check the HM Revenue & Customs guide to Shopping (new window) on the Internet.
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That´s it!
Is an European law
An order from Lightake, ordered on 13th, shipped on 14th has arrived (at the Post Office) today. It'll be in my hands tomorrow morning - fortunately the post office is between where I live and where I work so my Mrlite will finally make it into my hands - three weeks from when I ordered it. Oddly, the DX order that left Hong Kong the day before has not yet arrived. Hopefully the Manafont BLF one (dispatched on October 25th) won't be far behind so I can compare the two.
OH MY GOD!
You receive orders shipped on 14 October and I dont receive 3 orders shipped on 21 and 23 SEPTEMBER!!!!!! also some orders shipped from early october hasnt arrived!!!!!!!!! This is ridiculous!!!!!!!!! Almost 2 months from shippment date and nothing!!!!! 
However, small and light items shipped on mid-october have arrived. I dont understand the way of work of HKP!!!!!!!!!
It probably makes a big difference that HK was a British colony until 1997 and I suspect a lot of the mail to Europe from HK ends up passing through the UK. It is going to take at least a couple of days more from the UK to Spain.
At least I'd assume that traditional links would only be changed if there were a good reason to do so.
But then I know nothing at all about how mail is routed so this is just guessing.
Don't worry fran. Your not the only one.
Maybe this will confort you a bit. All my orders from LT have been already shipped from 5 to 10 days ago. Well, not a single one have left HK yet (at least for tracked ones). Not to mention that order date was around 15 days ago for some.
Sorry, thanks for your support, but that not confort me.
I have a tracked item with shippment date of 20 Oct, which had been as "item xxx is being proccessed to delivery to addresese" from 20 to 31 october. Now shows "item was posted on 20 Oct". Simple as that..... and no clues of when is going to leave HK. And the item was waiting for supplier almost a month........... I beleive is next to waste the 45 days paypal user protection........
I have 3 items from 3 different sellers shipped on 3th, 4th and 10th of October, still waiting.
A driver shipped on the 8th I have received.
OK your shipped orders are from early october. I am talking about orders shipped on 21 and 23 september.......
This one left DX 10-10 and was finally leaving HK the 10-23. But I still didn't get the 801 from ebay, some old orders from KD, DX, BC and the BLFs from Manafont.
DX have just emailed me to tell me that part of an order from 25th July has now been shipped! Unfortunately their database won't tell me what it is just now. I wonder how long it'll take HK Post to get them here, I mean it has taken DX 102 days months to source them, so HKP won't have to work very hard to beat that.
Out of curiosity, how long was your longest wait for an item from when you ordered it to when you got it?
I think mine was about a month and a week.
About 4 months. And it was sent EMS but from the Chinese mainland which always seems to be a lot slower.
4 months! That's going to be tough to beat.
Another day passed. The post man has arrived but............... BUAAAAAAAAAAAAAA no one of the 7 untracked items, and the tracked one continues saying "was posted on 23 october".....
This is bad for a flashaholic............ I have the "mono"
22 days LT untracked. Fastest one 7 or 8 days (counting sunday) after placing order on DX.
LT usually takes a whole week more than dx. Based on about 5-6 orders.
At the moment KD orders seems to arrive faster than anything else.