[meteorite-list] International shipping isssues
From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 31 16:31:21 2006 Message-ID: <20060331051644.23725.qmail_at_web26213.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Not real, I have received many packs in 9 years from outside Italy, and of this only 2 its not arrive....I have received meteorites of high value without insurence write and its all arrive with no problems....the problems arrive if you put the insurence, the italian custom block the packs for controls and pass over 1 month for the control, and I have to pay a extra money for the tax. If you have to send internationals packs with high value use only express couriers and put low insurence....for other send the pack via registered mail without insurence. Not sand any mail in the December or August months, for the 90% of the cases born a problem.... Matteo --- harlan trammell <skyrox_at_hotmail.com> ha scritto: --------------------------------- 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 > > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY Email: mcomemeteorite2004_at_yahoo.it Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.it Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info MSN Messanger: spacerocks at hotmail.com EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite/ ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it Received on Fri 31 Mar 2006 12:16:44 AM PST |
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