Anyone flying to the UK this week? I need a parcel taken- will pay £30

cyprusharv


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 15:18

Hi,



Anyone travelling to the UK this week? I need a parcel/box taken to post in the UK. The box weighs 11kg and dimensions are 78x30x30cms. I will pay £30 plus the Uk postage (internal).



If you are interested please contact me on 0533 8456019 (Harvey)



Thank you



PS The goods ARE legal!!!

seadoo


Joined: 25/02/2009
Posts: 24

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 17:05

If you can wait 3 Weeks i can help coming over full going back empty

sweep


Joined: 11/10/2007
Posts: 241

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 20:51

have you never seen the documentrys on television about people taking packages through customs for strangers.



some ended up on death row for drug smuggling,



you must be mad to take somone up on a offer like this even if you know them.



not worth the risk losing you freedom.



allways beware of people asking you to take parcells through other countrys



you could be the next one on the tv having an interview through the cell bars, telling every one you didnt know what was in the package and it wasnt yours it was only a favour for somone.



regards sweep

Whistler


Joined: 28/07/2008
Posts: 1332

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 23:46

My sentiments entirely. I was asked at Heathrow to take a woman`s hand baggage on board. I pointed out the notices to her and said an emphatic NO. Saw the police talking to her when we got to Ercan. Dont do it.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
15/03/2010 23:52

hiya sweep and whistler, whilst i agree with what you say, customers have asked me to take things back to post and shown me the contents, so i had no worries, Also I brought back two german jaCKETS FOR ALLO Allo, I knew what was in the parcel so again no probs, along with presents for the SOS. Its very difficult receiving or posting items from here as very little get here or even get to UK, so in instances like this Im happy to help when I can as long as I know what Im taking xxxxxxx

sweep


Joined: 11/10/2007
Posts: 241

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 00:29

do you not realise how deviant drug smuggers are ??



they can make drugs look like every day items you wouldnt be able to tell unless you have lab to test them.

richb


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 223

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 01:58

See what a rumbas you have caused Harvey? And all wanted to do was send a motorbike part over.



Rich

cyprusharv


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 08:06

Thanks Rich and Lilli for your understanding.



Seadoo- thanks for youroffer but 3 weeks is too long to wait.



Sweep and Whistler- get a life (behind bars please).



Anyone interested in taking the parcel I will be quite happy for you to examine the contents before hand.



Offer still stands!!!



PS If you are NOT willing to help then please don't reply.

Whistler


Joined: 28/07/2008
Posts: 1332

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 08:54

Cyprusharv. Sweep and I have obviously hit a raw spot for you to react so rudely and defensively.

It wont be us getting a life (behind bars) but maybe the person who takes a parcel for somebody else.

I hope you are never on a plane when it gets blown up by somebody carrying a parcel. You would probably be the first to complain if security was non-existant at an airport you were travelling through.

I`m off now to get a life.

cyprusharv


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 15:42

Yes Whistler good idea! GET A LIFE!!!!



The item BTW for anyone genuinely interested is a silencer part for a motorbike. Perfectly legal!



30 GBP for anyone that can help.



I can even run you upto the airport (Ercan) and go through the security with it if in doubt.

sweep


Joined: 11/10/2007
Posts: 241

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 16:49

hi cyprusharv





cyprusharve



thanks for the advice but i have quite a good life as it is, just to remind you it isnt me asking openly on a public forum will anyone take items through customs.



a motorcycle silencer you say , well these are usually hollow with a insulation stuffed inside them to create the baffle on the noise the engine makes making this an exellent item to dismantle and stuff with what ever you like, not that i am saying you are doing anything illegal.



if you cannot hand out good friendly advice on a public forum what is the point is having it in the first place.



lilli



before you take anything through customs for strangers or friends please watch the film based on a true story of a guy courght taking drugs through a turkish airport believe me i doubt you will ever chance it after watching this, my comments were posted as i was thinking of you being innocently locked up away from your family for somthing you may even be aware you were carrying.

sweep


Joined: 11/10/2007
Posts: 241

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 16:57

the comments were posted in good faith and tring to warn peolple of the dangers of taking packages for anyone through customs.



to act in such a defensive way to the two postings really places doubt on the person asking you to do this.



please be very carefull if you decide in the near future to do anything like this as if there was ever anything illegal in what you were taking through customs do you think they are going to come after someone you emailed on a forum absloutley not you will be the victim not them.



travel safe and beware of strangers remember what you parents told you as a child.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 16:59

Oh i am now so very pleased that i did not ask anyone to bring back the fan for my Toshiba Laptop..well worth the 6months i went without the laptop.!!!







Spider,X

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:01

PS,Try the card shop..i think they do a service of sorts,they may well help..good luck.







Spider,X

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:02

when we were in Sri Lanka our young tour guide asked us to take a parcel to the UK for him, my hubby straight away said "yes", when I queried this later he said "what a lovely lad". When we saw him the next day, I said, when you bring the parcel I would open it and inspect it first, we never saw him again!!!!!!!!!!!

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:04

Sadly cant get the Turkish washing powder i like back in the UK-----would anyone like to carry 10 boxes back to the UK for me.



If anybody can, will meet them at Mollys cafe tomorrow night at 10pm and will pay you $1000 in cash another $1000 in cash when you deliver them to Rajs kebab shop in Islington high st.





Easy money ........................!

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:23

I have been reading this thread with interest and I would make only two comments on what I have been reading.

Firstly Harv I am sure that you know that there are more efficient ways of exporting parts to the UK and secondly your offer of carrying said parcel through security at Ercan is not the issue, the issue is security/customs at the Uk airport of arrival. I see no evidence of any paperwork being provided to exonerate the carrier from import duties. Although I am sure your intentions are honourable, I think you need to understand exactly what could go wrong for the person that ends up carrying the parcel into a UK Airport.

AJ

Texas


Joined: 22/09/2009
Posts: 634

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:25

Karakum5c.



Even though Molly's cafe is closed, I will gladly take your package and the $1,000 up front. In fact, I now understand, why you chose a business that was closed.



I cannot guarantee delivery, but I'd be $1,000 better off and either 10kg's of washing powder, or 10kg's of "coke" ahead!



I may then have $250,000 bounty on my head, but I'd be either very clean, or totallly wasted!



PS. I'll be wearing a black uniform and my police car will be outside the Pia Bella.

koroglu83


Joined: 02/03/2010
Posts: 46

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:26

I must have overlooked the fact that the TRNC is a major hot bed for narcotics exportation and of course the logical place to ship from(with its numerous trade routes and proximity to weathly western capitals)

Why would you want to risk the notoriously stringent Dover/Calais customs when you can fly 6 hours and pass through 3 airports???

Come on guys this request appears innocent. Lets not all queue up for a pious public lynching.

Whistler


Joined: 28/07/2008
Posts: 1332

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 17:53

koroglu83. It`s not a public lynching. A couple of people tried to warn him of the dangers involved in this exercise and he came back being very offensive towards them. The film by the way Liz and Sweep, I think ,was Midnight

Express.

sweep


Joined: 11/10/2007
Posts: 241

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 19:26

koroglu



it is not a public lynching as you suggest the comments were posted to inform and hopfully protect people.



if my posting saves one innocent person and informs hundreds who read cyp44 and may of done a similar favour without a second thourght well it was worth it.



i have abosloutly no bad thourghts towards genuine people asking these kind of requests it is the one in a thousand who have a hidden agenda behind there actions i am educating the nice people of the north of the dangers of such requests.



whistler

you are bang on it was midnight express, after watching such a scary movie i would rarther be on the safe side and turn down any offers no matter what the rewards even if it was for a friend for free not in a million years.



watch the on going tv series banged up abroard you see all the scams, stories and even people who do it whilst there loved ones are with them and unaware as to what is about to unfold before there eyes.



regards sweep.

uncle-ted


Joined: 15/03/2010
Posts: 103

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 19:41

midnight express springs to mind !! for £30....



forget that

Tinkie


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 1256

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 19:54

£30 wouldnt even cover the excess baggage for 11kg would it? The last time I paid excess baggage it was about £8 per kilo...try upping your offer Harvey!!!

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 23:19

you know i take all your points on board but i as people to take cards for me so often as i have taken letters and cards for other so now no more xxxxxxxxxx

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
16/03/2010 23:22

Ah Liz - don't worry about it - so have we . Remember all the stuff we brought for Sheila and the stuff Irene and Steve took back?



While I'm on - Happy St Paddy's Day from both of us for tomorrow.



With love.

LondonCypriot


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 426

Message Posted:
17/03/2010 02:21

Have you tried posting it from the South, it could be more relaible.

cyprusharv


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
17/03/2010 18:00

Thanks London Cypriot for your advice. By my calculations it will cost 67 euros. I think it will be the best bet- sure it will be quicker and the price about the same as NC. I'll do it on friday unless I have any offers although I think my offer has now lost any interest thanks to a few "do-gooders"!!!



Why oh why do I waste my time?

koroglu83


Joined: 02/03/2010
Posts: 46

Message Posted:
17/03/2010 19:06

cyprusharv....Now just wait for the dozens of "warnings" about how dangerous/unreliable the postal service can be ;-)

cyprusharv


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
17/03/2010 19:18

koroglu83- you make me laugh



Saying that I do have a PO Box in south Nicosia and regularly have mail sent there (and friend's). Who knows, maybe I am smuggling unknown commodities through the "border" !!!!!