I can’t speak for other countries but shipping to Canada tracks through customs and all the way to delivery.
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 1. In the US, USPS priority mail is great. If you are sending something > outside of the country it is out of USPS' control at the foreign airport. > This is where the fun begins. In Israel, our postal service adds at least 2 > weeks to get a package through customs, and you don't know where it is or > what's going on for most of that time. Sometimes things get lost, and > sometimes there are complications with customs. UPS does it in half a day > without problems, but the cost can be astronomical. I bought a big Johnson > Matchbox from a guy in MN. UPS charged more than $450 to ship it. > > 2. There is no good reason for Americans to not sell things to foreigners if > the foreigner agrees to pay the actual shipping in advance by Paypal or bank > transfer. All the risk is on the buyer. The only thing the American has to do > is fill out a customs form when he sends it. > > 73, > Victor, 4X6GP > Rehovot, Israel > Formerly K2VCO > CWops no. 5 > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ >> On 02/01/2019 19:40, Rose wrote: >> I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All >> of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. >> To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. >> I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS >> business is transacted in town at the Post Office. >> I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 >> at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again >> purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. >> The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail >> receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority >> mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. >> An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) >> I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. >> 88 ! >> Rose - N7HKW >> [email protected] >> 1-406-560-3738 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
