Any problems ordering an AncestryDNA kit to AU and posting in the UK?

[lanercost]

To get a test before a holiday, then testing a relative abroad and mailing it off from there.

Thanks

Hi,
I assume you mean Australia? ( AU)

If you order an ancestry kit  and get it sent to your address in the UK ( or whatever country outside Australia ) ,
and  you then send it  here to Australia  - the pre paid bag  ( to return the sample) , I would think will be for within the UK  use and not Aus handled international post.

If purchasing,   if it were me, I'd get the kit sent directly from Ancestry to the person out here in Aus  , otherwise I would think the pre paid bag in the kit  mailed  to your address outside  Aus is hopeless  out here, as  the  pre paid bag wouldn't be  paid for  with Aus post to send  international  to *Ireland (* where our kits are posted to from here  in Aus) .

Kind regards

Ps they are pretty quick at posting the kits out,  if  what  you're  worried about  is the posting times of receiving a kit here in Aus
from Ancestry.
The  kits  come from within Australia and not from overseas ( by an Ancestry's suppliers within Aus) . It should take no more than two weeks for the person to receive the kit in Aus.
 *I Think mine took a week if that  ( *obviously this depends where the person  is in Aus  of course )

Thanks for your reply (and all the other replies). What I meant was I would order a kit to my home in Aus, and take it with me once I can travel to the UK.

I thought it might be a common practice amongst some family historians to have a spare DNA kit or two in their bag for when they're travelling and meeting some family.

[Mowsehowse]

QUOTE by Lanercost:
"I thought it might be a common practice amongst some family historians to have a spare DNA kit or two in their bag for when they're travelling and meeting some family."

What a great idea.
Clearly you are an optimist! 

I am waiting now for numbers of Chatters, (brighter than I am,) to chorus "OF COURSE WE DO."

[Cell]

To get a test before a holiday, then testing a relative abroad and mailing it off from there.

Thanks

Hi,
I assume you mean Australia? ( AU)

If you order an ancestry kit  and get it sent to your address in the UK ( or whatever country outside Australia ) ,
and  you then send it  here to Australia  - the pre paid bag  ( to return the sample) , I would think will be for within the UK  use and not Aus handled international post.

If purchasing,   if it were me, I'd get the kit sent directly from Ancestry to the person out here in Aus  , otherwise I would think the pre paid bag in the kit  mailed  to your address outside  Aus is hopeless  out here, as  the  pre paid bag wouldn't be  paid for  with Aus post to send  international  to *Ireland (* where our kits are posted to from here  in Aus) .

Kind regards

Ps they are pretty quick at posting the kits out,  if  what  you're  worried about  is the posting times of receiving a kit here in Aus
from Ancestry.
The  kits  come from within Australia and not from overseas ( by an Ancestry's suppliers within Aus) . It should take no more than two weeks for the person to receive the kit in Aus.
 *I Think mine took a week if that  ( *obviously this depends where the person  is in Aus  of course )

Thanks for your reply (and all the other replies). What I meant was I would order a kit to my home in Aus, and take it with me once I can travel to the UK.

I thought it might be a common practice amongst some family historians to have a spare DNA kit or two in their bag for when they're travelling and meeting some family.

Hi,
Ahh I see what you mean ( I think)  .
If you buy one here in Aus , get  it delivered  to to your address  here in Australia, and then take it to the UK visiting family  - , then you bring  the sample  back to here  Aus to post off?
If so - absolutely no problem at all !!
(as the postage is paid from here  in Aus to Ireland , international)

What  I am getting  at is the pre postage bags in the kits .
If you bought a kit in the UK ( the pre paid bags in the kits) and then sent it from here in Aus to Ireland - Aus post may not accept it, you know  what they're like lol.

I don't  see  you'll  have much of a  problem with you buying  a kit here ( getting it delivered  here to your address  in Aus, taking it to the UK  with  you and posting it from  the UK )


Kind regards