jollysmart

Thank you for pointing out my error, not saying "essentially tax free" as the assumption is that the VAT will be dealt with by the retailer and as you say it isn't a matter of views, but of pedantry. However, since your stated view of what will happen closely aligns with what the Government say is the situation and what I and others have stated was our experience, you and I appear to agree that in the majority of situations no VAT will be collected on packages under £135 which was actually the original question. So pedantry wins.

The Government website says you won't have to pay anything to the delivery company under £135, which has been my experience with such items from Japan which is. what the original question was about, not the EU and its VAT regime.

So what is the £135 limit for if Vat etc is still charged and yet the governments own website says that under £135 you will not have to pay anything to the delivery company?

I just buy straight from the dealer, you can't use Ebay as an arbiter as it has its own rules. Sadly we both have our views and we are unlikely to agree, but if the £135 no tax limit means nothing why is it quoted?

I thought we were talking about Japan, which I quoted, I have never been charged VAT on things below £135 from Japan, I have no idea if Japan charges VAT or not, they quote the price and postage, as the section I quoted clearly says you wlll not have to make payment to the delivery company for goods under £135, real life experience.

Try the website you quoted? ":You will not have to pay anything to the delivery company to receive goods worth less than £135 unless they’re gifts over £39 or excise goods (for example, alcohol and tobacco)."

Imports from Japan are not subject to tax if under £135, which given the low prices that can be available sometimes makes considerable bargain.

Ran out to Cleethorpes and back several times today (22/6/23), two of the visits.

66 118 passes the undergrowth to platform 4. at Barnetby with another train of iron ore, Immingham B.S.C. Ore Tml to Santon F.O.T. 21/05/23.

153324 basks in the sunshine at Cleethorpes 26/6/2011 (My photo)

Took a look in today, what a friendly show with a variety of excellent layouts and traders as wells the museums own layouts and exhibits , It's open again Sunday so take a look if you are in the area, highly recommended.

Got to admit Le Bassin is an absolutely spectacular layout, fantastically well observed and interpreted, the whole magazine is as ever. brilliant, you certainly set a very high bar. Thank you, very well done.

Barrow Haven Station has had a recent rebuild with a new platform, better lighting, waiting cover and safer access. Before, after demolition and complete.

Much rebuilding work being undertaken at Cleethorpes station 25th March 2023.

My reading of this is that it won't reduce the number of journeys just make them longer by making people drive further to get to where they want to go hence increasing all of the things that the changes are supposedly trying to reduce, hence people legitimately objected.

There was/is a supposed plan to fit OH electrification to a straight/level section of the M180 which did appear to be rather silly when the railway that runs parallel to the motorway isn't electrified and also carries a significant volume of freight. Nobody explained why disrupting miles of a busy motorway would be acceptable, or why just the straight section would be electrified and what happens at each end of the OH?

60010 rolls light engine through Barnetby 12:28 11th July 2022

A gruby 156907 waits at Cleethorpes 23/03/2022

Part of a short lived trial landing Icelandic fish at Mallaig and transporting by rail to Grimsby using interfrigo wagons, there is some more info about it on the "Photos of mixed trains / passenger trains with tail traffic, West Highland Mallaig Extension, blue diesel era" thread.

I can vouch for the overcrowding having spent many hours standing on the lower ECML

Peterborough is a commuting station though so maybe more adversely affected? Maybe the actual figures are the most reliable though with the continuing strikes and cancellations it is hard to know what the reality is.

Isn't it half term this week, many parents off work with their children?

I agree with what you say but my point is that we should either complete what we started or not bother, destroying it by cutting bits off won't prove if the original plan was correct or not as it won't be built. It must be horrendous working on HS2 when your job is continually being called into question, especially if you are a trainee, yet nobody seems to care about the humans involved. I live close to the Humber bridge the original cost was exceeded by more than 5 times, local "experts" and the knowledgeable commentators said it wouldn't be used and yet often there are long queues to cross in both directions and traffic is non stop, they even reduced the crossing charge due to the high usage. Things change.

I think changes are always to be expected and I'm sure there will be many more over the 100 year plus life of HS2 but I doubt that we can build major infrastructure projects and stop and start them randomly because somethings change, we either commit to them or we don't bother at all and just carry on saying that what we need are major infrastructure projects, just not this one, or the next one etc.

I've found that with the SMS boards to aid rigidity I have fitted a supporting length of timber for the full length of the boards under the edges where the surface extends over the sides. I used a timber slightly deeper than the sides and slightly wider than the overhang and glued it to the sides, it takes the strain off the bolted joints between the boards to prevent bowing.