Thank you fnksb. That was awesome of you. I ordered a Falcon F15 yesterday. I’m still not sure if the discounts end at midnight St.PB time or what, so I ordered a day early to make sure.
I hope this one comes as quickly as my Panda 2M-CRI. That was super fast, 11 days door to door.
It was dispatched on day 2 and was in my hands on day 11. It spent the first 3 days enjoying a tour of post office “local distribution centres” in St.Petersburg where it visited no less than 4 of them, plus the post office it was dropped off at.
It was in Russian customs for about 27 hours, it left Russia the next day and was handed over to UK customs a day later.
It was in UK customs (GBLALA) for only 16 hours which was a pleasant surprise and it was in my hands a day later.
Russia Post (pochta.ru) tracking was very good and it tracked the whole way.
Read the tracking from the bottom up.
British Post
Delivered
11 December 2019, 13:30 , England
Handed over for delivery within England
10 December 2019, 03:30 , England
Processing in England
10 December 2019, 02:22 GBLALA, England
Passed registration in England
10 December 2019, 00:15 GBLALA, England
Handed over to England for further delivery
09 December 2019, 10:22 GBLALA, England
Russian Post
Released from Russia
08 December 2019, 05:12 190970, Sankt-Peterburg
Released by custom house
07 December 2019, 01:02 190977, Sankt-Peterburg
Handed over to the customs
07 December 2019, 01:01 190977, Sankt-Peterburg
Arrived at the customs of Russia
05 December 2019, 22:23 190977, Sankt-Peterburg
Arrived at the local distribution center
05 December 2019, 22:21 190975, Sankt-Peterburg
Departed from local distribution center
05 December 2019, 06:13 190970, Sankt-Peterburg
Arrived at the local distribution center
05 December 2019, 06:09 190970, Sankt-Peterburg
Departed from local distribution center
03 December 2019, 23:19 200960, Sankt-Peterburg
Arrived at the local distribution center
03 December 2019, 15:26 200960, Sankt-Peterburg
Departed from local distribution center
03 December 2019, 14:52 190916, Sankt-Peterburg
Arrived at the local distribution center
03 December 2019, 13:06 190916, Sankt-Peterburg
Sorting complete
03 December 2019, 07:58 192102, Sankt-Peterburg
Arrived at the Post office
02 December 2019, 17:48 192102, Sankt-Peterburg
Tracking number assigned
02 December 2019, 15:53 192102, Sankt-Peterburg
Double thumbs up for YLPs packaging department. The customs declaration was marked “Gift” and the value was declared as 300 rubles. That’s about $5 / £4 / €4, therefore way under the £15 threshold for UK tax.
This was a big factor in me deciding to order again.
Thanks again fnksb and a big thanks to YLP for the discounts.