Looking to contact David Cochrane

[Austin in the Shed]

It has unfortunately affected my A7 business in a hugely negative way too, including to and from Northern Ireland!

Shipping in and out of the UK to the EU has become so protracted, complicated and unreliable that it is simply not worth the hassle and inevitable losses to smaller traders like myself, I am not in the least bit surprised to read David's comments above.

My comments are about A7s but I could also have helped Reckkers with his Haggis, in the past.

Yes even sending to NI is a problem.
When I went to the steel stockist in the UK I was told that he had ordered 30 different sections of  steel,only 3 available and delivery on the others was  then 6-8 weeks.
The other thing he told me there was quotas on steel being brought into the UK.If these were exceeded  he had to pay a 25% tarrif to the UK government to release steel from the dock,anyone know if this is true?
He also said the price of some steel had doubled in price.

[Charles P]

Nor was there an oven to put them in...but hey, we got rid of their unelected commissioner and installed our own unelected commissioner "Frosty the Placeman" so that's all right then.

Nor was there an oven to put them in...but hey, we got rid of their unelected commissioner and installed our own unelected commissioner "Frosty the Placeman" so that's all right then.

Yes, Lord Frost is here to sort out the northern Irish Protocol; this 'solution' was originally negotiated with the input of a 'Special Advisor'  called David Frost. Political perpetual motion right there.

Fret not.
Frosty was Boris's special advisor when he was foreign secretary, a purple patch in global diplomacy, as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will attest.

C

[Duncan Grimmond]

It's not punishment, it's what every non-EU country has to do. We are now a non-EU body and must comply with regulations as any non-member would... this is what some of us asked for.
What used to be seamless trade for me between Italy and UK is now a bit sticky and inconveniently involves a VAT element which is all a bit of a bugger as far as my business is concerned.

[sinirrop]

In Italy we have another problem. I usually buy from countries outside EU and never experienced such delay in delivery as now from Britain.
I have two theories:
1) italian Customs was totally not prepared to manage this situation
2) someone is trying to show us what will happen to the countries which decide to leave EU... (ok, a bit conspiracy theory... )

[Duncan Grimmond]

Perhaps you could collect my pewter from Brescia and bring to a half-way point and we could meet... I need some Italian conversation practice, my Italian is getting rusty from lack of use ;-0

[jansens]

It's not just Brexit affecting things of course. I have had a ParcelForce package sitting waiting to be exported from the UK to NZ for over a month now. No indication of when that might even leave the UK least alone arrive here. All they could tell me was delivery service guarantees have all been suspended then pointed me at the web site which makes no mention of NZ at all. It's an expensive, custom made, essential car part so I am worried it will just disappear out of the system and be gone at some point. I suspect once (if?) it does arrive it'll be held up in NZ customs for another month while they work out what tax I need to pay on it!

A friend in NI recently told me all the prices of car related things there has shot up and things suddenly became harder to get.

Oh, and I wish people wouldn't put just someone's name alone in the subject of posts. Usually that indicates they are no longer with us and I got a shock when I saw David's name here!

Simon

[Graham Barker]

Here's some cheerful news. I recently received an A7 door handle in Auckland about two weeks after David Cochrane posted it. That's about the normal delivery time for a small parcel. 
Cheers 
Graham Barker

[Duncan Grimmond]

Enough of this cheery nonsense...We want more misery!!!
I have 5 sheets of tinplate "lost in transit" by myHermes somewhere between Redditch and Boroughbridge. I used to have an account with them until they lost a mint pair of seven headlamps I'd sold and shipped with them.
Could be worse but it's very frustrating and I can see it's going to cost me as the shipper didn't insure the package adequately. Doh!

[sinirrop]

Perhaps you could collect my pewter from Brescia and bring to a half-way point and we could meet... I need some Italian conversation practice, my Italian is getting rusty from lack of use ;-0

I will probably have to come to Britain to collect my A7 parts, sooner or later.... 

[Erich]

Tony Griffiths, those phones are tempting. I have to admit that I didn't get a smart phone until 2019. I was still using a flip phone up until then.

As far as shipping goes, here on the left coast of the USA, we have dozens of container ships anchored awaiting room to unload. And there aren't enough trucks(lorries) and drivers to deliver the containers. That and food prices are up 30% in some cases.

Erich in Mukilteo