Postage
Postage is a flat fee, for as many items as you like. I can fit six items into one box, and if you order seven or more, I’ll eat the cost of the second box’s postage. This keeps things nice and simple, and means you can order more things for a decent price.
Due to customs fuckery, I can’t put Maoams in with International packages, or I have to then declare them as sweets and fill in a load more paperwork – it’s just another thing for customs to moan about so I’m gonna steer clear of it. If you ever come to England let me know and I’ll send you a whole pack of Maoams, how’s about that?
You may have to pay custom and VAT fees depending on what country you live in – I have no idea how much these would be for you as it will vary from country to country – the product is shipped with the customs code for “vegetable byproduct”. This is an EU-wide thing that has now come in, isn’t related to Brexit, and applies to absolutely every EU country, so there’s no getting around it!
Everything I post is legal over here (totally legal to possess magic mushroom spores most places in the world), but it’s your responsibility to ensure it’s legal where you’re at (it probably is).
Posting Days
Orders paid for by 12pm UK time will be packed up that day, and posted the next. If you have paid after 12pm, then your order will be packed the next day, and posted the day after that. There’s gotta be a cutoff at some point, and it’s 12 now, so get your orders paid for rapidly and we’ll get ’em out rapidly!
Rest assured, I’ll try and get your package out as quickly as I can. The website will send you an email once you’ve ordered, once I’ve seen that you’ve paid, and then again when I’ve handed your parcel over to the nice post person. Your tracking info will be in that email – if you can’t find it, please check your spam folder, it might well be in there!
Once again, because it bears repeating: magic mushroom spores are to be looked at only with a microscope, don’t go being silly with it and trying to grow any magic mushrooms because that’s illegal and I don’t want any part of any shenanigans, and I won’t sell them to you if I think that’s what you’re going to do. Don’t go messaging me about putting them into grow kits or anything like that because then I’ll have to blacklist you – it’s not what I want to do, but it’s the law. I am absolutely zero-tolerance with any kind of “wink-wink-nudge-nudge” stuff so don’t do it, buy them for microscopy and have some fun!
These are premium quality spore syringes, so we make sure that they are packaged securely and discreetly. Your microscopy hobby is your own business and not the postal worker’s!
I use Royal Mail for all of my posting services – at the moment I’ve got options for the UK, EU, and “the rest of the world”, I will happily post to any country where it is legal for you to receive these goods. If you’re in Australia you’ll probably find that it’s a bit difficult. I only use tracked shipping as a way of making sure that customers know where there package is at all times – there can be a bit of delay in updates sometimes when packages are moving into different countries, but that’s normal.
If you’ve got any specific packaging requirements, drop me a message and I’m sure we can work something out – I’ll box them up pretty much however you like. No, I cannot send spore syringes without a customs label, and if I did they would throw it away. You don’t want that, either.
Have a great day!
Bonus Postage FAQ!
Orangutan Trading Co’s been going for a decent amount a years at this point and there are a lot of questions I’ve now heard a few times, so I’m gonna write up a little bit here to help you out and hopefully save you a bit of time in writing an email (I’m nice like that)!
If you’ve paid me before 12pm it’ll be the next day, if you’ve missed the day’s payment cutoff it’ll be the day after that. Obviously this doesn’t include Sundays, Bank Holidays, or whenever else the Post Office is shut.
It varies, obviously, depending on what postage option you’ve chosen, and which country you’re in.
If you’re in the UK then Tracked 24 should be with you the day after I post it, and Tracked 48 should be with you two to three days after I post it but these are what Royal Mail call “delivery aims”, so they’re not guarantees. Sometimes they get a bit busy and these timings slip by a little, which is totally out of my hands. If you absolutely need your spore syringe, swab, hoody or whatever by a certain date then Special Delivery is your best option because they guarantee that this will be there the next working day after I post it. Again, sometimes (very rarely, but usually around Christmas) they get so busy that they even fuck this up, but because this is the priority service and they get penalised for getting it wrong they try a lot harder.
If you’re in one of those wonderful exotic foreign countries that I hear so much about then it’s a much more difficult question to answer, it’s usually around two weeks, sometimes less, sometimes three weeks. Depends on: how busy your local customs agents are and how busy or efficient your local postman is.
Yup, unless you’ve ordered more than 18 syringes or a t-shirt or hoody!
Not usually, no. As I say in loads of places on the website, it’s totally legal to own spores in any form, and there’s really only one thing you could do with them that’s not allowed and that’s grow magic mushrooms, and you’re not doing that.
Also, Customs are on the lookout for illegal stuff, not completely-legal-to-own stuff. Most of the time, they don’t know what spores are (most people I speak to on a regular basis have no idea), and they just wanna get their job done and stop loads of illegal drugs and ivory and whatever-the-fuck-else getting imported. What they often want is for you to pay a bit of VAT, which means they’re saying “yo this is fine but we’d like our slice”.
That’s not a question is it? Damnit we were doing so well. I’ll answer it anyway as I’m feeling cool: we’re only human, and sometimes (very rarely) mistakes are made. Totally fine, best thing to do is reply to your dispatch email and let us know, ideally include a picture of the wrong item or whatever. We’re always happy to make things right!
Yes, and no! If it’s not been posted yet, then yeah, no worries, I’ll scribble the right postcode/street name/whatever on. This actually seems to happen quite a lot, so I’ll use this as a good moment to say *please double-check your address*!
If it’s already been posted though, then my lovely arms, as long and simian as they are, cannot reach your package to amend anything. This means it’ll either A) somehow get to you as Royal Mail are often surprisingly good, or B) come back to me, at which point you can pay the postage cost again, give me the correct address, and I’ll get it sent back out to you pronto.
Sort of – you’ll need to check the tracking details and see if you can arrange a redelivery. If not, and it’s already been sent back to me, then you can: either purchase again for a quicker resolution, or wait for it to return to me, and then pay for postage again.
Best thing to do is check what comes up in the country selector box at checkout. I ship to most countries. This changes sometimes based on various factors, but if it’s not on the list it’s either: nope (Turkey, Russia, Israel etc) or just needs you to contact me first at [email protected] to sort out a different way of posting (Ireland, Australia, China etc). Like I say, these things change sometimes so even if I can’t post it currently, it’s always worth checking back at a later date.