Or the shipper didn't pack it well. UPS is very generous on insurance payments IF the shipper doesn't have a history of issues. The stores that use the custom foam scheme you see often on ebay were stores already nabbed by UPS for too many damage claims.
As far as I know, the Customs House just does paperwork. Breaking stuff is left to the package handlers. Everything I ever got from China has been USPS. Slow boat from China is more than an expression. ;-) ------Original Message------ From: J. Forster To: [email protected] To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Ebay FE-5680A Rb I see the price has gone up for these Sent: Dec 14, 2011 9:00 AM Yeah. UPS has a Customs Broker... staffed by 600 pound gorillas. They succeeded in breaking my cast iron antenna base about 1/2" thick and weighing over 40 pounds. -John =========== > Paying duty on foreign purchases is always a crap shoot. Often you don't > get charged at all. Other times the item is held and you pony up the duty. > > I got an item through Fedex and they came after me two years later for the > duty. I refused to pay because I couldn't even remember if I paid the duty > when I got the item. > > UPS has their own customs house. Way more professional than Fedex. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
