Posting stuff to china

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Ello

Anyone ever posted something to china? Whether a postcard/letter or small parcel? How much did it cost? I'm such a fucktard I can't make sense of the Royal Mail website.

Cheers
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zzr600

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Yo fucktard, what are you sending?

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Dunno yet my chinese mate sent me an official football shirt, I said I'd post him something back. Thought I'd send a postcard when I go to the coast, but any small British item I might find relevant I might post. If it won't cost me a fortune.
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zzr600

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https://www.royalmail.com/personal/sending-parcels

It's all on there mate, easy as piss to read.

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Didn't see that page before, well done cheers

How cool this this!

https://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh470/mic8310/B10C1BD6-D7DF-4D90-800F-9E07C5B80D6A_zpsdikzp8h0.jpg
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zzr600

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My advice would be not to send anything from a coastal grockle shop. So much stuff here in china, loads of tat. He will know that what you bought was only a cheap trinket.
Not exactly sure what to suggest as a nice gift, but certainly not tat because there are floods of the stuff everywhere you turn here.

I am getting my parent's to send me a few important letters to my hotel here in Tianjin by FedEx. Not sure of the price for that yet. Last Christmas I was living in Shanghai and my parents sent me cards and a parcel, nothing ever got delivered, nothing left or a message telling me to go to the local sorting office. So make sure the address is 100% correct from your friend.

[Chinaboy]

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My advice is get his phone number, and utterly festoon the package in it.

They are utterly useless chimps here.

I paid 26 quid to get an application for a scholarship special delivered to India, and had a week to arrive. Two weeks later, I got a call... it hadn't even left China, and could they have a return address "as it was still my property."

At least I got to practice my grumpy Chinese.

Seriously though, letters/parcels arrive somewhere, and the dude phones them. That's the system here.
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China traffic/travel bike vid - When I make a sweeping statement, please add the word 'statistically' in to the sentence before you bitch...
From September 2014 to January/February 2015 I will not be using any English, nor reading any. As such, I won't be on here. PM at will, but I won't be checking/posting unless in emergencies. Certainly not for the first couple of months. Please berate me savagely if I break that rule...

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I've been learning Chinese for about a year and have almost daily chats with a couple of people over there. They seem ok to me, weird thing is they (Chinese) seem to want the uk life yet I wish I had theirs
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zzr600

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Bonny, we work in completely different industries. If you like to see China with love and romance that is fine, but in industrial life it is a constant fight and no matter how it is dressed up, they are not normal. Admittedly, there are those educated and very rich people that have made it, but I do not work with them, come down to street level and it is a completely different ball game.

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[Chinaboy]

ok photo removed, don't want to cause offence.

I think you are brave to ride here, last year my friend was killed up in Fularji on his 600. The Chinese crematorium was a terrible place like a production line. We even had to carry his body to the slate for viewing before he got cremated. So, just go careful ok!

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