{"id":3173,"date":"2013-11-30T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2013-11-29T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:54:32","slug":"3173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/11\/3173\/","title":{"rendered":"Utter Madness !"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We recently got wind of a change to the Royal Mail’s list of restricted items that can’t be sent through the post – (wait for it) water-based paints. According to the Royal Mail website<\/a>, no more than four pots can be sent in a single parcel, each no larger than 150ml.<\/p>\n

(the snippet below is taken from the Pendraken website)
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We don’t sell paints, so this doesn’t affect us from a business point of view, but we do buy them, and it will affect us as gamers because it’ll inevitably lead to increases in the cost of shipping.<\/p>\n

Apparently it’s to ‘protect other items in the mail’. Fair enough, but this doesn’t sit consistently with the ability to ship a litre of alcohol in a glass bottle – surely there’s far more chance of that breaking and making your credit card bill smell of whisky, than there is a plastic pot of Ultramarine blue leaking its copious contents all over the bank statements and birthday cards ?<\/p>\n

Leon Pengilley of Pendraken Miniatures<\/a> has started a petition<\/A> to get RM to lift (or at least modify) this ban. We’ve signed it, we think every other gamer should too.<\/p>\n

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