This morning while eating my branflakes I heard something getting stuffed through my letterbox...panic at first as I'm waiting on a couple of tunes to arrive...but too early for the postie -09:38..just thought then it was junk mail...panic over!!!

Went down to the door about an hour later and too my horror was a brown envelope clearly marked from USA, just big enough to house a 45.....my heart sank and panic set in, the noise of it being stuffed through the door biw ringing in my head......I picked the envelope up feeling for pieces....hmm just seemed a bit bendy....opened up the envelope to see a white demo if Otis Leavill on limelight... surrounded only by one small piece of bubble wrap....Still in one piece!!! Oh lord thank you!!!!....not ridiculously rare but a gorgeous white demo in mint condition.

I've since emailed the seller with some advice on packing tunes, to which they were grateful for the advice.....one of the lucky days indeed.

What was the 45..."I'm amazed"?!

I've had a delivery like that before too, and record was also amazingly okay. Compare that to some that are packed so well you feel like a kid at Christmas as you eagerly go through the various layers. Great

Sounds like a record I received from Rob Smith - only mine was minus the bubble wrap

Ooh, Tuesday must be record delivery day. I received this morning, Emanuel Laskeys Peace Loving Man from Detroit via Tokyo! Does Dave Flynn work in a hospital? The tape he uses is strangely similar to sticking plaster .

What was the 45..."I'm amazed"?!

I've had a delivery like that before too, and record was also amazingly okay. Compare that to some that are packed so well you feel like a kid at Christmas as you eagerly go through the various layers. Great

Lol..yep exactly...amazed by name and delivery!! Lol

Sounds like a record I received from Rob Smith - only mine was minus the bubble wrap

Lol...does nowt for the nerves Joan lol

I got a jive fyve 45 from ohio today. It was posted on the 10th of march.

supersonic postman

Sounds like a record I received from Rob Smith - only mine was minus the bubble wrap

Thats what happened then Joan, I only got the bubble wrap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOT A CARD TODAY FROM OUR FREINDLY POST OFFICE 2 RECORDS £16 = £3.31 CUSTOMS VAT WHICH IS OK , BUT IT IS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SORTED THEM OUT ON THE £ 8 FEE TO COLLECT IT ,MOST DISPROPORTIONATE.

FORGOT THEY HAD REDUCED THE IMPORT LEVEL DOWN TO £15 FROM £ 18

KEV

GOT A CARD TODAY FROM OUR FREINDLY POST OFFICE 2 RECORDS £16 = £3.31 CUSTOMS VAT WHICH IS OK , BUT IT IS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SORTED THEM OUT ON THE £ 8 FEE TO COLLECT IT ,MOST DISPROPORTIONATE.

FORGOT THEY HAD REDUCED THE IMPORT LEVEL DOWN TO £15 FROM £ 18

KEV

SORRY HIJACKED ORIGINAL THREAD MODS FEEL FREE TO MOVE

KEV

I had a Samantha Jones Ray of Sunshine White demo

It was shrivel up warped all the way round and had four hairline cracks in it

it must have been leaning on a heater on the plane or in a post office somewhere at some point , as the seller said it was perfect when he sent it :( :(

ive had a styrene okeh 45 from allen radwill from america survive the journey encased in only a a5 envelope folded around the record (no sleeve), and then again a 45 from the uk in a record mailer that somehow had got folded into half...

slightly off thread i recently got an old emidisc through the post, unfortuntately my border collie dog got to it first and bit it as it came through the letter box, teeth went through the plastic into the metal denting it beyond repair (a new grading ?), it said fragile on the envelope but the border collie cant read

ive had a styrene okeh 45 from allen radwill from america survive the journey encased in only a a5 envelope folded around the record (no sleeve), and then again a 45 from the uk in a record mailer that somehow had got folded into half...

slightly off thread i recently got an old emidisc through the post, unfortuntately my border collie dog got to it first and bit it as it came through the letter box, teeth went through the plastic into the metal denting it beyond repair (a new grading ?), it said fragile on the envelope but the border collie cant read

I had the misfortune to buy some records off Radwill Allen/Alllen Radwill ages ago - the man is a thief pure and simple and well known for it.

I had the misfortune to buy some records off Radwill Allen/Alllen Radwill ages ago - the man is a thief pure and simple and well known for it.

Hence his knickname - Badwill

what happened to this guy? I know he couldn't possibly be on ebay now with the DSRs counting, but he dropped off the radar years ago. The best was reading his negative feedback about selling fake autographs, I always thought that was funny.

GOT A CARD TODAY FROM OUR FREINDLY POST OFFICE 2 RECORDS £16 = £3.31 CUSTOMS VAT WHICH IS OK , BUT IT IS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SORTED THEM OUT ON THE £ 8 FEE TO COLLECT IT ,MOST DISPROPORTIONATE.

FORGOT THEY HAD REDUCED THE IMPORT LEVEL DOWN TO £15 FROM £ 18

KEV

Yeah, noticed that too, to my cost.

Kept it quiet didn't they. No announcements anywhere.

Bar Stewards.