[meteorite-list] International shipping isssues

From: Meteoriteshow <meteoriteshow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 31 16:31:36 2006
Message-ID: <016f01c654ac$e3350a50$0400a8c0_at_IBM>

I have the same concern when shipping abroad from France. Of course I ship far less than you do Adam, and so far never got anything lost. But I already had some delays either for shippings to the US or for items I bought from there. I guess that most of the time, the parcel was stuck for a while at customs... This is the most possible reason to me.
Cheers

Frederic Beroud
http://www.meteoriteshow.com
IMCA member # 2491 (http://www.imca.cc/)
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  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

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    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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