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Hi,
Anyone know a supplier for windproof "Zippo style" lighters. It would appear my usual source no longer stocks them.

the only place i know sells them by the 100 per order, pm me if you want details i am having a nightmare posting them though, with some getting "confiscated" by the post office as they are stuck in the loop of posting a banned item, even though being new its not banned,

100 is way too many, thanks anyway.

Lighters themselves should be fine, as long as they don't contain any lighter fuel.

the problem is (as has been discussed on here before) if you put new gift on and don't declare its a lighter, and they scan it, it is confiscated for being a lighter - which is prohibited. if you declare it to be a new lighter, quite often they appear to disappear, you are told that they cannot rely on your word that it is new ! although i think possibly a lot of staff read the contents and think oh a nice new lighter - yes please

Wonder if how 'professionally' they're packaged affects the disappearance rate - if they're just loose in a reused jiffy bag for instance with stamps for postage if they'd disappear more than one sealed in a branded blister pack in a PVC mailer with franked or PPI payment for postage - I'd think the latter may be taken more seriously as being new. The former example being an extreme, but you get the idea. Not a product we do mind, but interested to know in terms of what/how you get around Royal Mail trickyness - If you do PPI then you can skip the high street post office and take your sack straight to the local depot/sorting office to remove a load of checking - we drop our sacks to the local sorting office, and they're not checked and just loaded straight on the van and taken to the main depot/hub, since doing this we've had a lot less items going missing/delayed.

Most of mine are sold face to face, so postage is not a great problem. However getting them in the first place seems to be.