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"Bugno":3mha44vc wrote: I am trying to get goods from the east coast, Commerce city in Colorado to be precise. The thing is the stuff will have to picked up from a factory so the whole idea of marking as holiday goods could be a bit tricky. I will enquire into UPS next week so and see what sort of figures we are talking about. Cheers for the replies lads.[/quote:3mha44vc]

Just so you know, Colorado is not east coast. I don't know how timesensitive the goods you are getting shipped are, but for me flying home, from Washington DC (east coast) it's 7 hours. It's about a 4 hour flight non-stop from DC to Denver (commerce city is just out side that).

So if your stuff is in storage, its going to get frozen. Just wanted to give you warning.

If the stuff is going from the factory, then you will have to pay the VAT on delivery.

Make sure you get a tracking number, because An Post held the stuff I sent home to my mother and didn't send out a notice to pick up because of VAT for almost 2 weeks, you don't want your stuff sitting in storage for that long either.

Cheers, and good luck with it, hope it goes well