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Originally Posted by SMHarman
But - get the sender to send them USPS (US Postal Service) Global Priority. This ends up with Parcel force for onward 24 hour delivery.
Mrs H uses this route to send lots of packages from her suppliers to the UK, now because the USPS / Royal Mail get so many boxes each day and have insufficent staff to process them all, you are likely to find that unless yours is the 1/20 crates of mail that is set aside for duty calculations it will appear on your doorstep with no duty or vat charged.
In the unlikly event that you are picked then your calculations in post 12 are about on the money. The charge from the post office is £4.
If you send them DHL/UPS/FedEx etc then it is pretty much guaranteed that you will be charged vat and import duty. UPS can often hold the package until you pay up. FedEx and DHL are more likely to deliver and invoice later. We refuse to let suppliers ship to us with UPS (Useless Parcel Service) these days, they cause too many problems.
Sounds a nice solution continuous wear. The astigmatism in my right eye makes contact lens fitment a nightmare (along with hay fever giving me rough eyelids) so all toric lenses spin and don't sit properly. I can wear contacts socially, but they give me headaches reading a computer screen as my right eye cannot focus properly. For me this means dailys are the best option.
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Thanks for the advice, I think they send it via the route you mentioned, how do I pay the £4 fee to the Royal mail (and any duty), do I need to pay the postman or do they invoice me?