We don't allow any of our film prints to ship via USPS or UPS. We use Fed Ex and DHL, and have never had a problem with either internationally. Do ask the recipient to email you the waybill, and customs invoice if possible.
If they don't send the customs forms, you should be preparing the customs invoice, don't leave it up to the courier (unclear if that's what you meant). Prints are declared at a lower value for customs, not the full replacement value (which would certainly incur customs fees/tariffs). Most festivals ask for a low customs fee to be declared, such as "under 50 euro" for example. Todd is correct, we include “temporary import, cultural purposes only, no commercial value, no pornographic content.” Not a film print, but a package of four DVDs we shipped via USPS from Los Angeles to Dublin has been rejected twice this year at Irish customs, even though all customs forms were perfect, and double checked by USPS. We also have several packages lost each year by USPS, domestically in the US. Good luck, Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music Los Angeles www.centerforvisualmusic.org On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Karel is right in every possible way. Do not ever mark anything as a > gift unless it really is obviously a gift because it will get set > aside for additional inspection. > > Anything can be declared under a variety of different categories but if > you use one category you may pay a lot more money than another category. > I can ship an audio transformer under the "Electronic transformers" > code or under the "Telecommunications transformers" code, as they are > validly described either way... but declaring as telecom transformers is > much cheaper. > --scott > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > -- Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org
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