Hamper to Italy

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Really looking for some help please. I'm looking to send a luxury food hamper to Italy but do not appear to be able to find one.... can anyone recommend?

Because of Brexit restrictions, most of the hamper companies have stopped shipping, and those that do will sting with customs duties on arrival if you're not careful.
Harrods used to send them, but weren't doing so last year, as did Betty's.
I don't know if it was purely a Brexit thing or also a Covid thing, or a bit of both.
What you can do, is get a hamper delivered to you, then ship it yourself with one of the courier companies. That's how we got round it last Christmas. Certain things have to be taken out though- booze etc.

PS the Betty's one was equally as good as the Harrods one.

To send 1 from the UK is now expensive and takes a very long time.

xmas parcels for my son sent via post arrived mid March.

Probably better off using a company like British corner shop or similar - they have warehouses in Europe so they can bypass a lot of the issues you’d have sending from here, but there is quite the markup on a lot of their goods

www.britishcornershop.co.uk/#

assuming you are in the uk if you want to send something privately some food stuffs cannot be included (dairy, meat).

plus any parcel worth more than between 12-20€ atracts customs fees (not sure how high that is in italy). which usually means the recipient has to go to the post office and pay the import duty before receiving the parcel. even if it's declared as gift.

you might be better off finding an expat shop in italy and ordering a hamper from there.

They now ship from Holland to avoid Brexit restrictions. They’re more “chocolate digestives and marmite” than luxury but there’s plenty of choice or a few ready made hampers.

You're definitely better off finding a courier yourself from somewhere like Parcels2go.
You can still send 20-30 kg for about £30.

Thanks all for your replies and helpful suggestions. I think we are now looking for an alternative gift.

I'd be delighted to find a low cost way of just sending tea bags to Italy. Since the obscenity inflicted on this country known as brexit I've not been able to send anything. I used to send all sorts of English goodies to an Italian friend. Every way I tried I got knocked back. At last I found an Amazon seller who would send a packet of PG Tips for about £16.00 I gritted my teeth and went through the process only to get as far as entering the Italian address where upon it said 'cannot deliver here'

Here's the Royal Mail page. www.royalmail.com/sending/international/country-guides/italy

I get PG Tips here in Italy from an ethnic Indian shop at about €3 for 40 pyramid teabags.
I nearly jumped for joy when I saw them.
Sad, I know…