Issue shipping knife internationally

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Phisig

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I recently tried to ship a knife to Czech Republic, knives are allowed to be imported there, through USPS. It was returned to me stating dangerous item. Apparently after it left the US it stopped in Switzerland on it's way to the Czech and Switzerland sent it back because it is a prohibited item there. Anyone have this type of issue before?

Marc
 
I’ve never shipped knives internationally so I’m not much help but did they do a random search or did you have “knife” listed in the description of goods? It could be you just need to word the description of goods without any kind of language that would trigger a “weapons” search. I hope you get a better response from someone with a little more experience.
 
When i looked into shipping internationally i read it was not a good idea to be vague with the description of the item as this can cause customs to open it up and since it was going to a country that does not prohibit the item, i didn't think there would be an issue.
 
Wow, that's surprising, from what I've read, there pretty much aren't any knife restrictions on owning or carrying in the C.R.

The few times I ship a knife internationally, I always put "Camping Tool" on the Customs forms, never had an issue.
 
Wow.
They rejected it even though the item was not destined to the country?
I don't know how they can function as an international transport hub.
Never imagined this could happen.
 
Might depend on what country its going thru. I just received a knife from Greece (i'm in Kansas) and it made the trip fine!
 
If I mail a package through an international carrier, from country A to country C, but to get there, it passes through the international carriers hub in country B, since when does country B's customs inspect/open it? I always thought just the originating and destination countries Customs did that.
 
JD Mandrell said:
Wow, that's surprising, from what I've read, there pretty much aren't any knife restrictions on owning or carrying in the C.R.

The few times I ship a knife internationally, I always put "Camping Tool" on the Customs forms, never had an issue.
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I've declared camping tool innumerably more times than I've ever been camping. Hasn't failed me yet either.
 
It was a knife i bought from Czech and was sending it back to be fixed. The supervisor at the post office i shopped it from said he had never seen that happen before and customer service just kept telling me they don't know where it goes through after it leaves the US. I'm going to resend it and list it as a camping tool.
 
JD Mandrell said:
If I mail a package through an international carrier, from country A to country C, but to get there, it passes through the international carriers hub in country B, since when does country B's customs inspect/open it? I always thought just the originating and destination countries Customs did that.
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That is what I thought.
The OP's case tells otherwise.
Curious if others have similar experiences.
 
Hmmmm, I shipped knives to Switzerland several times. Fact use to have a wholesale account there at a saddle shop that sold my knives.
 
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