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Originally Posted by SCEtoAUX
So request that the delivery be made by UPS or FedEx or DHL or some other shipping company if available.
Maybe the online shops and stores that have online shopping will quit shipping by Royal Mail and start using a different delivery service.
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Well, I certainly hope that other carriers will still agree to ship legal blades. Currently DPD for example don't state anywhere they will be implimenting any new rules and just list 'knives' as a prohibited item, which might include hobby blades or not. But as mentioned, there is quite some probability other couriers will make similar prohibitions, because the source of all this was a child getting a knife over Amazon by using their parent's credit card and a 'just leave it at the door' note. No courier wants to get labelled as 'the one which is still shipping knives to kids' and we have a vicious tabloid press who run the country by whipping up hysteria based on half-truths and outright lies. Not only that, but you have to take a parcel to a collection centre and declare what's in it to post, and with the panic over this you might well get some ignorant jobsworth refusing to allow it.