15 Jan
2008
15 Jan
'08
11 p.m.
On Jan 15, 2008 2:51 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Jan 15, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Teo Zenios wrote:
I shipped small items to Australia and Canada and USPS just wanted
me to
fill out what I was sending, to who it was going to, and its value
(marked
as gift so people would not pay customs duties). Not that much to
fill out.
That wasn't the case with FedEx a couple of years ago. It was so
much trouble that I just gave up on shipping outside of the paranoid
USA.
-Dave
Perhaps things have changed since your experience, but last year I did
a LOT of foreign shipping with Fedex, UPS, and the USPS. In all cases,
it was pretty easy to send stuff. I just had to deal with the
strangely-formatted addresses (Japanese addresses were really hard, I
recall, and Sweden threw me a few times) and fill in one extra web
form (I was doing this online) for the customs stuff, which took
basically no time. I've only had problems shipping internationally
ONCE, when I was trying to send a bottle of flammable conformal
coating to the Philippines and wasn't really sure about the
procedure... had to order some special hazardous materials boxes, fill
out lots of extra forms, and then drive it directly to the local
distribution warehouse because the college post office didn't want to
be accept hazardous materials.
Basically, I've never had any problems with international shipping;
don't overthink the customs forms, and most certainly don't overvalue
the computer you're sending--avoid paying duty that way, and it's not
worth that much anyway.
John
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
>> It could be five, but I doubt he would be
interested in
>> shipping that to Brazil :o(
> Why not? That is real shipping, mate :)
Dunno. There are so many ebay sellers not willing to ship
something overseas...I think there must be something impeding them,
don't now what.
Tons of pain-in-the-butt paperwork.