interesting. but all u.s. insurance stops at the border.
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From: dean bessey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: AW: [meteorite-list] International shipping isssues
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:57:21 -0800 (PST)
>I guess I ship internationally more than most people
>given my 25,000+ ebay feedback and since 80% of my
>sales are in the USA anyway. Mostly sent from Canada
>but more recently from a very poor service feature and
>overpriced (Although very reliable) New Zealand post
>office.
>I have a lot of German customers and mail 4 or 5
>packages a week to Germany and have not had any
>losses. Interestingly though, New Zealands post office
>will not insure packages to Germany so maybe I am just
>lucky. I will say that Germany has the most
>troublesome customs service in the world as far as I
>am concerned and I have delays often with packages
>held in German customs but usually its just a week or
>two delay and only 1 in 10 packages maybe. Maybe 2 a
>month is two weeks late but the rest arrive unusually
>fast. Interestingly the economist (A business
>newspaper from Britain that I am sure you all have
>seen) regularly harps on the regulations and moronic
>problems for business in Germany (And France to). They
>like saying for example that When Germany and France
>talks about "harmonizing" regulations throughout the
>EU they really mean increase taxes, restrictions and
>regulations everywhere else to match them. So its
>probably not just us meteorite people complaining
>about German customs.
>But Germany has not been a problem for me postage wise
>outside a few delays. Mail always get through an
>dusually the post office is faster than other postal
>systems. I have a lot of customers in Germany (More
>than anywhere except the USA) and the postal service
>dont worry me.
>I have had several packages lost to Belgium and the
>Italian post office is so bad that I occasionally
>think about saying that I wont ship to Italy anymore.
>I have had 3 out of 10 packages lost to Mexico and I
>have never shipped a regular airmail package to
>Romania that actually arrived. In addition mail to
>Hawaii is regularly a month late. Otherwise I dont
>have problems with the post office and regularly ship
>mail to south america, South Africa and all over asia
>including some third world asian countries like
>Thailand and Indonesia. I also ship a couple packages
>a month to Russia without ever having a problem
>(Albiet that is usually an oversized or regular letter
>as my Russian customers usually buy coins and stamps
>which dont require customs declarations).
>Overall most of my lost packages are to the USA but
>with the majority sent there that would be natural I
>guess an dsometimes I wonder if my customers are
>honest. Interestingly canada has an awful postal
>service to and they even have insurance that they
>force you to buy but they most likely wont pay if
>something dont show up and they once called up a
>customer of mine and accused him of lying that he
>never got a package that was sent with a tracking
>number.
>That being said, I have only had one lost package
>since I came to New Zealand in september and I was
>running less than one a month when I was in canada and
>listing 4000 auctions a month on ebay.
>So I cant really complain about the postal services of
>anywhere that I send packages to except Italy, Mexico
>and Romania.
>Cheers
>DEAN
>
>
>
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