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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephanella" data-source="post: 107689" data-attributes="member: 10684"><p>No, it doesn't. Your family will mark the parcel as gift, but even a gift will be taxed if its declared value is over £ 36. Now, unless your family will post you the monitor uninsured, which would be crazy, they will have to declare its value for insurance purposes and this will go on the parcel with the declaration. I get goods sent over from the USA very often both by friends and by stores I purchase from. Everyone puts 'gift' on the parcel but customs work by value and not just by 'gift'. This means that if they see something incospicuous in size AND value they will let it go without tax, bar the Royal Mail handling charge, but if they see a GIFT whose declared value is, say, $ 300 or $ 2000 they WILL tax it. Sending a gift, or non-gift item, that is valuable without insurance is not a good idea and that is where they will know what the value of the item is.</p></blockquote><p></p>