tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post2205968227227586917..comments2024-03-14T19:13:03.713+00:00Comments on Bonkers about Perfume: Busted!Vanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-8643788384822735812016-07-22T07:42:20.780+01:002016-07-22T07:42:20.780+01:00Hi Mals86,
Hmm, could be, but it is galling all t...Hi Mals86,<br /><br />Hmm, could be, but it is galling all the same when you know your own package is quite innocuous. :( xVanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-27550304931930867822016-07-20T23:04:49.714+01:002016-07-20T23:04:49.714+01:00Sigh. The officials are getting more paranoid all ...Sigh. The officials are getting more paranoid all the time (though given the reach of terrorism lately, maybe they're not crazy).<br /><br />XOMals86https://www.blogger.com/profile/09757305840611623427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-91160297774354175742016-07-18T11:17:13.986+01:002016-07-18T11:17:13.986+01:00Hi Carol,
That aspect was particularly galling, I...Hi Carol,<br /><br />That aspect was particularly galling, I must say! xxVanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-6558792574614577992016-07-17T18:52:53.488+01:002016-07-17T18:52:53.488+01:00Oh dear V - I'm so sorry you got busted especi...Oh dear V - I'm so sorry you got busted especially since they didn't return your perfumes! :(<br />xoxCarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394558427981331885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-25562880123996516532016-07-16T23:46:40.157+01:002016-07-16T23:46:40.157+01:00Hi Ingeborg,
That is a shame that you cannot enjo...Hi Ingeborg,<br /><br />That is a shame that you cannot enjoy those perfumes in an atomised form, which might have made them even more 'evocative', you never know!<br /><br />So you have a similar problem of postal price hikes, compounded by falling service? That's annoying. I hate it when letters go astray due to errors when they are easily correctable by the human eye with a bit of Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-16660568314847220472016-07-16T23:43:42.490+01:002016-07-16T23:43:42.490+01:00Hi Tara,
I hope your good luck has not run out - ...Hi Tara,<br /><br />I hope your good luck has not run out - but there is a chance their scanning methods are more thorough, or their sampling more extensive, I don't know.<br /><br />I knew about 'vaguebooking', but decided to be similarly vague about the name of such posts to protect the identity of those concerned. I had not heard of 'click bait' but that's another Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-47899669379171669192016-07-16T23:26:11.478+01:002016-07-16T23:26:11.478+01:00Hi Asali,
Sorry you have also had perfume suffer ...Hi Asali,<br /><br />Sorry you have also had perfume suffer the same fate, but it has at least put you on a legitimate path ever since. Our postal prices also go up and up, but in very small increments, so that it seems manageable. Except at Christmas, when sending 50 cards suddenly seems punitive!<br /><br />The extra kitty has gone home now, thankfully. It must have been frightened, I agree, Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-90640672624579709032016-07-16T23:16:22.865+01:002016-07-16T23:16:22.865+01:00Hi Jillie,
Sorry to hear you have had a similar b...Hi Jillie,<br /><br />Sorry to hear you have had a similar bad experience, and how disappointing for you and your sister. I haven't heard of any perfume related conflagrations on planes either, but maybe there have been some, or a bomb fashioned from a perfume bottle, and we just haven't been told.<br /><br />I am glad that it is still possible within the UK, albeit with a number of Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-18318844910579927312016-07-16T23:10:53.563+01:002016-07-16T23:10:53.563+01:00Hi Sabine,
Oh no, because perfume may not travel ...Hi Sabine,<br /><br />Oh no, because perfume may not travel abroad, period. Or not when sent by 'civilians', certainly - I cannot speak for commercial shippers. The hazchem sticker merely facilitates its passage in this country, or that was my understanding?Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-47047401086476472252016-07-16T23:09:28.841+01:002016-07-16T23:09:28.841+01:00Hi Undina,
That's a very good analogy you dra...Hi Undina,<br /><br />That's a very good analogy you draw with perfume reformulation - another example of the so-called 'nanny state'.<br /><br />Thanks for your support - my transatlantic shipments will be strictly mule-based now, hehe.Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-21836550800241030502016-07-16T23:08:06.443+01:002016-07-16T23:08:06.443+01:00Hi Pats,
Thanks for your sympathy, and no, it was...Hi Pats,<br /><br />Thanks for your sympathy, and no, it was new information for me too. LOL at 'Big Geordie's woman'. I hope at least that someone is stepping out in the Cathedral Quarter in style wearing this haul...Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-70722202343091372672016-07-16T16:40:50.762+01:002016-07-16T16:40:50.762+01:00So sorry this happened to you just during your per...So sorry this happened to you just during your perfume sale. I could make a rant along the lines of Undina's response, but will spare you and your readers. I have been trying perfume oils from Australian company Evocative Perfumes, perfume oils just because the other perfumes cannot be shipped here. And I am now wondering if not one or two of the creations would have been nicer abundantly Ingeborgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-69824030157083657162016-07-16T13:20:58.077+01:002016-07-16T13:20:58.077+01:00I wonder if my good luck will have run out now hav...I wonder if my good luck will have run out now having sent bottles to Val and Asali successfully in the not too distant past. They seem to have a new perfume detection method. <br /><br />I like that those kind of social media posts you mention at the top of their post have their own labels now. Those annoyingly incomplete statements on FB are called "vaguebooking", while when bloggers Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00825957684276136205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-36414085625874664392016-07-16T11:04:41.599+01:002016-07-16T11:04:41.599+01:00That sucks! I could say I'm almost grateful th...That sucks! I could say I'm almost grateful that my first experience with British post after they inforced this stupid rule, was very negative: a vintage l'heure bleue destroyed or snapped up by the mail workers, which ever you prefer ;-) I've been very cautious since. <br />As if the postal prices going up massively wasn't enough reason to be unhappy with the state of the postal Asalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12522693265217204063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-67120791270113550782016-07-16T09:25:18.653+01:002016-07-16T09:25:18.653+01:00It happened to me! A few years ago a bottle of Ch...It happened to me! A few years ago a bottle of Chanel No 5 Sensual Elixir I was sending to my sister in Oz for her birthday was seized and "destroyed". I hadn't thought this counted as perfume and assumed it was safe to be sent .... it wasn't. I was gutted. And I can't understand how bottles of perfume can be deemed so dangerous; I haven't heard of any conflagrationsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-59448294647017976492016-07-16T09:20:23.906+01:002016-07-16T09:20:23.906+01:00Ach, that's a shame. I assume it did the Haz C...Ach, that's a shame. I assume it did the Haz Chem sticker?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967920797621584017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-75943743590621216482016-07-16T07:21:48.436+01:002016-07-16T07:21:48.436+01:00Yeah, sure... 100 ml of perfume is what threatens ...Yeah, sure... 100 ml of perfume is what threatens the Empire... On the other hand, it's not a bigger nonsense than reformulating perfumes because some people <i>might</i> have skin reaction. I shouldn't probably get started... :) I'm sorry this happened to you, Vanessa.Undinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292100499371921334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-68841081539863426502016-07-15T22:38:21.074+01:002016-07-15T22:38:21.074+01:00Oh no Vanessa...such a shame. I never knew that th...Oh no Vanessa...such a shame. I never knew that the National Returns Centre was based at Belfast. You can bet your behind that your 100mls is probably either on ebay or adorning the wrist of 'Big Geordie's woman! ;-) So sorry this has happened to you... i shall take extra care out there! Patshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00556837049145356619noreply@blogger.com