If you're an account holder with UPS, International Shipping is not a chore - just filling in one carbon piece of paperwork, and stick it in the clear envelope. Viola! I am not sure about the recipient though, since none of our shipments include duty / taxes / customs fees and not sure I want to know how much it is either.
In any case USPS has been a delight to ship with for our eBay goods, really easy to fill out the shipping label and postage. I think they can get up to 70 pounds before they have to have special handling. I could be wrong.... Im not about to leave a 70 pound package for my door to door carrier to pick up from home.... I'll do it at work instead. :-) Cheers! John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn ----- Original Message ----- From: Mel Swanberg To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: tone panel deal of the moment I'm not sure I understand what the problem shipping overseas is. I've done a fair amount of eBay trading myself, and it's never been more than paying the postage for whatever the destination is, and a single page form declaring what the item is, and it's value. And many times, I haven't even been required to fill out a declaration form. I do virtually all my shipping via the internet, with pick up from my front porch. Are there some countries that trigger a more difficult process? I've shipped to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Israel, and all over Europe including some of the former Soviet block countries and it's been no problem at all. In buying stuff, I'm receiving items from Hong Kong and Israel faster than I get it from across the state. Mel - WA6JBD > Hi Marcus, > > If you became friends with some of the US Based people on > the group... over time building a rapport, some of us do > on occasion offer to help. > > The problem is... many of times I've helped someone outside > > the US Deal with Ebay Shipments it's like a large water dam > > bursts and they flood me with excessive shipping work ... > > There are companies that can help deal with outside US > Shipping. > > ... and there are some countries that seem to go out of > their > way to make shipping packages a real pain in the pazzoo. > The > global market place isn't always so easy to deal with. > > cheers, > s.
