I have sold a couple of instruments on Wayne's list in the past year
and bought another, which was shipped to me from the UK. The onen from
the UK came DHL last December and there was a week when I am pretty
sure DHL did not have a clue where it was. I called several times a day
and can guarantee you that their employees are trained to say
reassuring things. I finally got the instrument when a wonderful lady
in the San Francisco warehouse heard my story, found the instrument and
put it in her car on her way home from work to hand deliver it to me in
the local Starbuck's warehouse. About 2 months later I got a letter
from DHL asking me to pay some duty and recently I have had a letter
from the California tax people wanting tax because I bought something
from outside the country. I don't mind paying, but it seem that they
are very disorganized not to ask for the money before I got the
instrument.
The 2 instruments I sold were shipped Fed Ex ground and things worked
great. The only challenge was getting a box big enough to put the
instruments into with a lot of bubble wrap and packaging around it. I
called a local luthier and he recommended the biggest box that UHaul
sells and it worked great.
Nancy
At 01:29 PM 3/21/2011, howard posner wrote:
Wondering if anyone's shipped a big instrument lately, and has any
recommendations.
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