Royal mail to stop shipping blades from april

pjgh · Monday April 15, 2024

Dave1922 said:
I placed a vintage Gillette Safety Razor box on ebay, I mentioned the blade holders were in good condition.

They removed the add because it breached their policy on bladed items.

There are kids knifing each other and hacking people apart with machetes which obviously needs to be tackled but I don't see my razor blade box being used in the relieving somebody of their Rolex.

Just the AI seeing the word "blade" ... that's all.

I had a similar one some years ago when the campaign was against copied CDs. I listed a bona fide CD for sale and eBay pulled it. I put it back on and received a warning that my account would be terminated. I enquired. They told me I was selling a CDR! I said I wasn't ... they said I was. The end. Some months later I twigged what had happened - the serial number started with CDRxxxxxxxxxx which I listed to show authenticity.

Take out the word "blade" and re-list it. Just refer to it as a case and holder.

... and yes, it's ludicrous since I can still buy a hatchet on eBay and Royal Mail will still ship it.

Dave1922 · Monday April 15, 2024

pjgh said:
Just the AI seeing the word "blade" ... that's all.

I had a similar one some years ago when the campaign was against copied CDs. I listed a bona fide CD for sale and eBay pulled it. I put it back on and received a warning that my account would be terminated. I enquired. They told me I was selling a CDR! I said I wasn't ... they said I was. The end. Some months later I twigged what had happened - the serial number started with CDRxxxxxxxxxx which I listed to show authenticity.

Take out the word "blade" and re-list it. Just refer to it as a case and holder.

... and yes, it's ludicrous since I can still buy a hatchet on eBay and Royal Mail will still ship it.

I have this image of the local bad lads progressing from Derbys to Kai blades and the real psychos using Feathers

TobyC · Monday April 15, 2024

Dave1922 said:
I placed a vintage Gillette Safety Razor box on ebay, I mentioned the blade holders were in good condition.

They removed the add because it breached their policy on bladed items.

There are kids knifing each other and hacking people apart with machetes which obviously needs to be tackled but I don't see my razor blade box being used in the relieving somebody of their Rolex.

Stupid rules always miss the mark. You can stab someone with a pencil.

Dave1922 · Tuesday April 16, 2024

TobyC said:
Stupid rules always miss the mark. You can stab someone with a pencil.

Exactly

Anthorn · Sunday at 09:00

Update:

Therefore, from 7 May, Royal Mail and Parcelforce will continue to carry “any knife or knife blade, including cutlery knives, bread knives, knives that can be used for hobbies and trades (for instance, utility knives and snap-off cutters, gardening, camping, lock knives, bushcraft and farming tools with a blade or any other trade tool that could commonly be described as a knife), butcher knives (including meat cleavers), felling axes and razor blades”.

Royal Mail and Parcelforce knife policy update

From 7 May, Royal Mail and Parcelforce will prohibit the carriage of some types of knives, but exclusions apply for hobbies and trades.

basc.org.uk

Rohleder · Sunday at 11:26

TobyC said:
Stupid rules always miss the mark. You can stab someone with a pencil.

Bicycle wheel spoke is common in London according to a paramedic friend of mine. Easily concealable up a coat arm sleeve and does incredible damage... When applying pressure to one area blood spurts out of the other holes like something out of a cartoon.

pjgh · Sunday at 11:43

Some sense at last.

Ruddy peculiar that they had this release statement in the wings well before 1st April but continued with the ban on that date.

TobyC · Sunday at 12:58

Rohleder said:
Bicycle wheel spoke is common in London according to a paramedic friend of mine. Easily concealable up a coat arm sleeve and does incredible damage... When applying pressure to one area blood spurts out of the other holes like something out of a cartoon.

Medics reveal humiliating new trend in gang knife attacks

Surgeon Stephen Metcalf, from St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, has warned that gang members are targeting others by stabbing them in the rectum, so they will have to use a colostomy bag.

www.dailymail.co.uk

pjgh · Sunday at 13:54

... ergo, the Offensive Weapons Act is neither appropriate nor effective legislation.

Mike Smart · Sunday at 14:02

TobyC said:
Stupid rules always miss the mark. You can stab someone with a pencil.

Only in America
we’re a happy bunch

TobyC · Sunday at 18:24

Mike Smart said:
Only in America
we’re a happy bunch

It's the new arrivals that want us dead.

TobyC · Sunday at 18:26

pjgh said:
... ergo, the Offensive Weapons Act is neither appropriate nor effective legislation.

Only the law abiding citizens obey the law.

It's already against the law to stab, cut, or kill another person.

pjgh · Sunday at 20:03

TobyC said:
It's already against the law to stab, cut, or kill another person.

Quite! This is about that dangerous step the law takes when it tries to legislate against intention rather than rue on action and so takes the tools of intention out of the hands of an actor.

The Royal Mail were bringing in a change for two reasons - one, to reduce the number of things that might hurt a Postal worker (when staples in the packaging do more damage to a Postie than anything inside the packages); second, align that with the Offensive Weapons Act (which is so full of holes and such an incomplete piece of legislation that terms and definitions need to be decided by a Court ... and it says so in the Act).

I'd like to see eBay stop with the nannying now.

Blademonkey · Sunday at 23:09

pjgh said:
Quite! This is about that dangerous step the law takes when it tries to legislate against intention rather than rue on action and so takes the tools of intention out of the hands of an actor.

The Royal Mail were bringing in a change for two reasons - one, to reduce the number of things that might hurt a Postal worker (when staples in the packaging do more damage to a Postie than anything inside the packages); second, align that with the Offensive Weapons Act (which is so full of holes and such an incomplete piece of legislation that terms and definitions need to be decided by a Court ... and it says so in the Act).

I'd like to see eBay stop with the nannying now.

+1 the nanny state at its very best!

Paul.

TobyC · 2024-05-13T00:44:30+0100

pjgh said:
Quite! This is about that dangerous step the law takes when it tries to legislate against intention rather than rue on action and so takes the tools of intention out of the hands of an actor.

Firearms come to mind.

Shaun48 · 2024-05-13T04:30:52+0100

TobyC said:
Stupid rules always miss the mark. You can stab someone with a pencil.

Probably be sharper than Derby greens.

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