I sympathise Reddevil3, I can often get bits and bobs from China with free delivery more often than I can from the UK
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Having lived in Spain for years, there were a couple of small (very cheap) products that I missed and couldn't get here in the UK.
I phoned an old friend yesterday to ask her to get these things for me and post them. She emailed me the bill this morning. The goods were about 8 euros but the postage was 20!!!!!! 
Oh my goodness....I'm very forgetful but even I'd remember a journey like that 
. The GPO is a law unto itself but at least the parcel will arrive quite soon (fingers crossed). I regularly send parcels to South Africa. I know when they arrive in the country but then they seem to disappear into the darkness known as the South African Postal Service from where they reappear several weeks later when you've just about given them up for lost.
Living on an Island can sometimes have drawbacks.
I had an unused item, which my daughter in Derby said she needed, so "can you send it because its cheaper than buying one" was her request.
After great problems of finding the right sized box, I thought I am a modern woman I can use technology to make this easier.
After 6 attempts of convincing my computer I do have a correct postcode and I do live in the UK I printed the barcode labels and boxed it up.
Next day drove 20ml to the biggest PO, to be told "we have never done this before" but we will just send it.
Two days and 3 emails to the courier later, after trying to track this parcel, I now find out that unbeknown to myself, I had nipped to Inverness, on a Ferry then had a 127mile drive to drop this parcel off. It now has a different tracking number. I now think, is this my parcel, or not? 
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