I have had no problems shipping to UK, or any other area in Europe. I always ship Express Mail, Insured with delivery confirmation. I always overwrap the package with heavy brown paper. That seems to discourage prying eyes and anyone from disturbing the neat wrap. To ship in a box with no wrap, only tape to cut through, allows easy, hardly detectable entry into your package. They can reseal it by simply re taping it. The receiver of the package will never know.Now with that said, Germany is probably the hardest outfit to deal with. They will often hold an item in customs for several day, or even weeks. Italy on the other hand just does not like to go out of there way at all to deliver a package. I have had two packages returned to me(no charge with Express Mail)marked REFUSED. Now you know no one is going to refuse their package unless perhaps they delivered it to the wrong place to start with. I have shipped roughly 60 packages to Europe and have had only the two from Italy returned. The rest, delivered in a most timely manor with no pilfering.