[Fot] Buying Parts From England?

[J Wagner]

This doesn’t answer your question at all as it’s the other way around, but I’d like to also hear if anybody has any thing to say on this topic when it comes to shipping to England.

Around Christmas, I went to the US post office to mail two vintage magazines as a gift from California  to the guy in England  that bought my triumph TR2 (TS805).  It was packed in a flexible envelope. One was an old, “Classic Cars Magazine”, the other a little thinner.  So basically standard sizes and not very heavy. The post office wanted nearly $55. I didn’t ship it, sadly.

It doesn’t make sense to me.  You can order heavy widgets shipped from China for peanuts, but it costs $55 to ship a couple magazines to England.

—Justin Wagner
 

> On Jan 17, 2026, at 1:20 PM, Anthony Parker via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> From: Fot <fot-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Dan Forgey via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
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> Does anyone have recent purchases and thus knowledge of how much, beyond the part's cost, it costs additionally for shipping, tariffs and tax, etc. to get it here?   I'm considering parts costing just north of $500.  
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