[Healeys] Buying Parts from the U.K.

[Alan Seigrist]

I'm not so sure it will apply to Longstone Tyres.  They have some sort of
dark arts involved in keeping their shipping rates so low.  Even to Hong
Kong it costs next to nothing to ship their tyres.

Best,

Alan

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 5:52 PM Robert Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Returning to the subject, after reading the comments from the Group, and
> needing a set of tires for my BJ8, getting quotes from Coker and others, I
> decided to buy from Longstone.  Same experience as others, I bought a set
> of 4 Michelins  180 HR 15 XAS and the delivery was in 5 days.  I had
> delayed the order a few days so they would not arrive until I got to our
> Florida home so I could pick them up.  Unfortunately, my wife went to the
> PO to pick up our mail on hold and was surprised to have a platform truck
> wheeled out with tires on it.  Fortunately, they were easily rolled into
> the CRV and she was able to roll them into the garage.  She was not a happy
> camper.  I look forward to getting new threads on the BJ8 in the coming
> weeks.
>
>
>
> However, the use of Her Majesty’s Post and the inexpensive air rates may
> no longer be available in the future because the Trump Administration
> demanded the International Postal Union to revise the system of charging
> for handling overseas postal deliveries by the member states.  The rates
> were hardly changed over many years so that the USA Postal service was
> paying millions of dollars to deliver packages from China each year due to
> ecommerce.  The recent agreement in Switzerland was to allow the USA to
> raise their rates beginning in 2020 each year for the next 5 years.  The
> first country to be charged higher rates will be China, obviously.  The US
> will not increase rates for the less than developed countries.  Other
> countries will be allowed to increase their rates accordingly.  So maybe
> the cost of buying and delivery of parts via airpost from the U.K. will
> increase in the coming years. .  See article in NYTimes:
> https://tinyurl.com/y3qpywc2
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Bob Begani
>
> 67’ BJ8
>
>
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