Is free shipping from Intl-outdoors slow??

[Suncoaster]

@2100

@Suncoaster

Oz customs once delayed one of my Manafont orders for a week while they figured out whether the bonus crystal mud was contraband !

And the customs duty value limit is $1000, so be careful to keep your orders below that !

Do they open at least 50% of all the orders inbound to Aus? (good govt you have there!)

Geez….no wonder laser and knife sellers don’t send these stuff to Australia (i noticed this on Ebay and Aliexpress).

ELse how do they detect stuff like those small crystal mud granules then? It’s not as if you are bringing in a 10kg pack. X-ray scanning packets in bulk is not uncommon, even then due to the large volume at least over here they selectively scan and it’s more for EMS / USPS Priority.

All small packets are inspected; xray and other non intrusive inspection technologies, and sniffer dogs.
Knives don’t stand a chance.
If the contents are sus and can’t be identified they open the packet. Very few packets get opened.

[edc]

Any time I order a knife its gets opened. Even a few of my flashlight packages have been. Thats why I stopped buying knives :cry: . I’ve found 2-3 weeks is the norm for free post chinese sellers. Quickest ever was 5 days (Trustfire) longest ever DX : 5 months at least.

[2100]

@Suncoaster

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All small packets are inspected; xray and other non intrusive inspection technologies, and sniffer dogs.
Knives don’t stand a chance.
If the contents are sus and can’t be identified they open the packet. Very few packets get opened.

Wow. That explains it.

Well, we do ban bubblegum here, if it makes you feel better….

[garrybunk]

I found that IOS will mark your item as "shipped" quickly, but it doesn't seem like it really is shipped for a few more days. Almost like "shipped" just means delivered to the postal service (or picked up, whatever) and then the postal service sits on it awhile. I forgot tracking on my last few orders, so I can't compare the dates of when it really "shipped".

IOS is a very good vendor though and I wouldn't worry. I still get my orders rather quickly.

-Garry

[mags]

limit is $1,000.00 for customs?

I thought it was much much lower than that…

[blitzwing]

Gah, I might even be overseas when it gets here, in that case. :~

[Foy]

For me, it's been about a two week turn-around to the US for IO. I'll 2nd the hallelujah for Solarforce shipping; when this flashlight Foysanity began oh-so-long-ago (about 18 months/seems like my whole life) Solarforce-sales orders would take a month to arrive. My last L2M was in my hand 7 days after ordering.

canIgetanamenFoy

[blitzwing]

Got my F12, so shipping was around 24 days.

It would not work out of the box. First I thought it was my protected 18650 batteries (3000ma/h Ultrafires and the regular DX Trustfire “flames.”) It seemed to turn out to be the anodising on the tailcap and body threads preventing proper contact. Works fine now though there seems to be little rhyme or reason to the UI and modes. Other than that the workmanship seems top notch. Just waiting for dark now.