[meteorite-list] International shipping isssues

From: Jeff Kuyken <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 31 16:31:08 2006
Message-ID: <003e01c6549d$13a050b0$6401a8c0_at_mandin4f89ypwu>

Hey Adam & all,

I've had a few German people mention to me that customs can be quite strict
going into Germany and there can be delays there. But to the contrary, I've
always found that two of the most relaible/fastest postal services for
sending mail overseas is from Germany and Switzerland. In fact when I was
there a couple of years back, it took only around 48hrs for a letter from
each of those countries to reach Australia. Not bad considering a usual
flight time of 24hrs+. I'm sure there are some German listees who are better
able to answer this though. Bernd?

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: harlan trammell
To: raremeteorites_at_comcast.net ; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:58 AM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] International shipping isssues


international shipping is 100% risk- insurance stops at the border and once
it is out of our hands (U.S.) they might get it, or they might not. i try to
make my buyers aware of that. i have had fair luck w/ fed-ex, but there is
no legit insurance. once it leaves our borders, i really wonder what the
incentive is to deliver it at all.






i will be gradually switching over to yahoo mail (it has 100 FREE megs of
storage). please cc to: bigpineartifacts_at_yahoo.com


From: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites_at_comcast.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] International shipping isssues
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:44:19 -0800
>Dear List,
>
>I was wondering if anybody else is having problems with shipping to other
>countries, specifically Germany? It seems that about every six months I go
>through a cycle were things are seriously delayed or in rare cases lost
when
>using USPS Airmail to Germany. I have made hundreds of international
>shipments and have only had one other incident with another country outside
>of Germany and this was only a delay. I always ship within 24 hours of
>payment and to have something take over 30 days is unacceptable. Can
anybody
>tell me how the German postal systems works and why it is so inconsistent?
>
>I have had 14 incidences with shipments to Germany the last two years:
>
>10-with month or better delays
>2- lost for over six months and returned to me even though the address'
were
>correct
>1-opened with no item inside (100mgs of NWA032 fragments missing).
>1-Never recovered
>
>
>I would like to give German collectors some reasonable explanation to why
>some of their packages are delayed and others are not so any information
>would be useful.
>
>Thank You and Take Care,
>
>Adam
>
>
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