[meteorite-list] I will no longer ship to Italy using paypal

From: Ron <faceter01_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:25:16 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY130-DAV61D4762ED08F38D2F0EC9AC420_at_phx.gbl>

To those who ship to Italy and lose items, do you list exactly what's in the
package on the customs label?

Ron
.......

its many strange many others from USA ship to Italy and
arrive all with no problems and you and other few no

Matteo


> Francesco,
> I am just tired of losing my money. I work hard to
> acquire my meteorites, and doing hundreds of ebay
> auctions a month is a full-time job. To see 40 or 50%
> of items I send to Italy continually vanish is just no
> longer acceptable. I do not know or care where the
> problem it, but it is clearly on the Italian side. I
> am not the only one with the problem, it has been
> ongoing for years. I am simply no longer willing to
> throw my meteorites and money away by risking shipment
> to Italy if the meteorites are paid for via paypal.
> Michael Farmer
>
>
>
> --- Moser Francesco <cojack at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> > Hi All!
> > As you know I'm Italian so I think I have the right
> > to tell you my 2cents!
> >
> > 1) Naples and the rubbish (OT):
> > Maybe most of you don't know nothing about the
> > rubbish situations in Naples
> > and the near cities.
> > This is the situation:
> >
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rud-B1IDo-Q&feature=related
> >
>
http://images.google.it/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=it&client=firefox-a&rls=org
mozilla%3Ait%3Aofficial&q=napoli+immondizia&btnG=Cerca+immagini
> > About 130.000ton of the rubbish on the streets!!!
> > The fault is the Mafia, corrupt politicians and a
> > lot of other people
> > interested in the rubbish businnes.
> > It's very humiliating that this is the image that
> > the other countries has
> > about Italy and about Italian people, so I write
> > this e-mail.
> >
> >
> > 2) Italian situation (OT):
> > As you know Italy is a long and thin country, long
> > about 1000km from north
> > to south.
> > You have to know that there are HUGE and HUGE
> > difference beetween the
> > northern regions and the southern regions.
> > Many people who live in the northern Italy think
> > that the south Italy looks
> > like Third World, like the poorest and worst African
> > Country.
> > Who live in south Italy look at the northern like a
> > paradise on earth! A lot
> > of people leave the cities in south for search a
> > better life and work in
> > north.
> > I'm so angry when someone from the other country
> > think that the Mafia is
> > present in Italy!!! Mafia is only in the south and
> > biggest problem of my
> > country comes also from the southern regions!
> > Billions of Euro every year leave the northern
> > regions for the south Italy,
> > for try to resolve the dramatic situation, but all
> > this money goes in the
> > pocket of the Mafia :(
> > When the political class will change I hope a lot of
> > problems will
> > disappear!
> >
> > So please when you insult Italy and the Italian
> > People for Mafia and
> > organized crime, remember that in Italy there are 2
> > different Italy!!!
> > A rich and beatiful north and a poor and really
> > problematic south!!
> >
> > 3) POSTAL PROBLEM:
> > I'm so sorry to read that the post from USA to
> > Europe (and specially to
> > Italy) go lost in a lot of cases!
> > In the last 2years I have sent and received a lot of
> > packages, about 100.
> > Only one letter sent to Germany went lost...
> > At now the person how sent something to me have
> > never lost anything, I have
> > had some trouble only with a couple of letters...
> > Actually I'm waiting for 5 meteorites...I hope they
> > are on the way :D !!!
> >
> > I don't know the cause of these lost and for the
> > huge delay, i think the
> > situation has worsened in the last few month.
> > I live in a little city, about 100.000 inhabitants,
> > in august there were
> > about 25ton of post in local postal office, nobody
> > knows what really
> > happened and why!
> > 6 month ago a package took about 15days for the trip
> > from USA, now I know I
> > have to wait 4-6weeks.
> > But for example Greg Hupe has sent me a box on 29.15
> > and it was arrived on
> > 14.01!
> > Some month ago I send a meteorite to Boston and the
> > trip took just 8days
> > with the normal post, just 0.80?,? of shipping
cost!
> > The trip of a letter from Germany took 3weeks...
> >
> > I don't think there is corruption of the postal
> > service...I think it's hard
> > to say where is the problem.
> > I hope in the future the problem disappear so we
> > (European and Italian)
> > could buy from the great USA dealer without problem!
> >
> >
> > Ciao
> >
> > <><><><>
> > Francesco Moser
> >
> >
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