I presume someone somewhere has tried and possibly succeeded in sueing Royal Mail for allowing the sending of knives. When some rather odd and difficult-to-monitor new rule appears - like "you cannot now send nail clippers in the post" - there is probably litigation behind it somewhere.
The legislation is going to destroy some businesses. I have a number of kitchen knives from a company called Flint & Flame who only sell online apart from at various shows and events during the year. They don't have High St shops. If you saw the way their knives are packaged it would be clear that the risk to the carriers is virtually non-existent.
The legislation is going to destroy some businesses.
I imagine most of them don't use Royal Mail to send anyway. Anything over a regular envelop size is usually cheaper to send by someone else. I hope businesses had more notice - two months isn't much to reorganise company logistics. I suppose it will mean that RM will lose yet more trade.
I wonder if nail clippers and such would count. You'd think it would be pretty hard to enforce.
On a flight to Dublin in 2015, I had my nail clippers confiscated so I couldn't attack fellow passengers or crew. Maybe the fold out nail file was dangerous??
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I just bought online two small fingernail clippers because my old ones are nowhere to be found (and OH claims he hasn't borrowed them).
I'd better decide whether I want to buy anything like secateurs or dressmaking scissors/shears before the ban kicks in because I have much smaller than average hands and I can generally only find suitable options online. There's not much choice locally, most places just stock generic "middling size" options.
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