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Heads up regarding posting bladed items.

wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: on and from Monday 22 April 2024 Bladed Items will be prohibited by Royal Mail for all UK destinations.
I doubt this will affect many people but I've just posted my gardening knife off to be repaired and was told this. The guidelines state that it includes all "gardening and farming tools that have a blade" even if the blade is safely covered or hidden. It's a health and safety guideline they have to follow and as usual the word is followed not the sense. My folding knife will not magically open in transit and cut anyone through the package but I don't make the rules.

Also if you didn't know Victorinox will fix your Swiss Army knife for a maximum of £9.98 inc return postage even if you've been silly and snapped the blade in half :#

If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Wow, that’s going to be awkward in future then. They could amend the rules to allow folding knives, taped shut. We can hope 🙄.
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  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    If this just applies to Royal Mail, presumably I can continue to order knives from Amazon so I can carry on killing people....?


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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The website says:
    "To comply with national and international regulations governing the carriage of mail, and ensure that mail in transport does not present a danger to the general public, we restrict or prohibit certain items from our network."

    So I assume that the regulations apply to all couriers. Businesses can still send bladed items but they have to pay (or charge the customer) an extra £2 for the Age Verification Service.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Presumably that will also prevent secateurs being returned to companies such as Felco for servicing and sharpening.  Looks like a sledgehammer to crack a nut, once again.  A couple of years ago I bought a Hori Hori trowel, presumably that won't be possible either.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    So we want to clamp down on knife crime, but don’t want any restrictions which may make it a bit more difficult for folk to get hold of knives? 😵‍💫 
    Let’s carry on permitting the sacrifice of our young people on the altar of gardening 😭 

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    The world is going mad. I'm sure that some idiot has posted a blade inadequately secured which has inflicted a very nasty wound on some poor, unsuspecting person in the sorting office or elsewhere in the Royal Mail system.

    However, there is a huge difference between sending a machete with a large, exposed, inadequately protected blade and sending some locked Felco secateurs in a box wrapped around with additional packaging.

    But I don't need to tell that to anybody with half a brain cell. Sincerely hope common sense prevails otherwise I'll be tempted to tell porky pies at the PO counter...
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    So we need the government to come up with a law that permits GW forum members to send knives in the mail, but not Am&on or EBay? 🤔. I’m not going to hold my breath …

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Dovefromabove said:
    So we want to clamp down on knife crime, but don’t want any restrictions which may make it a bit more difficult for folk to get hold of knives? 😵‍💫 
    Let’s carry on permitting the sacrifice of our young people on the altar of gardening 😭 
    It's a health and safety rule not a crime prevention law. There are already rules in place for restricting postage of knives and similar but unless we're going to start locking the utensil drawer in the kitchen it will never be hard for kids to get hold of a knife or something sharp and pokey.
    We seem to set health and safety rules to deal with the biggest idiots now rather than try to reduce the amount of idiots. The same applies to knife crime. Nothing is idiot-proof to a sufficiently talented idiot.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Yes I noticed a massive notice on the Royal Mail app the other day as I was purchasing postage for a parcel for my business. 

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