[time-nuts] Cross border shipping ==> was: GPS receivers W/timing outputs...

EWKehren at aol.com EWKehren at aol.com
Thu Jun 27 11:54:48 UTC 2013


we had previous discussions on this subject
I have a friend that is in the bossiness. One of his sites is strictly  
limited to material from defense contractors that by law limit shipments to US  
citizens or residence, violation as a minimum he looses the contracts.
My time nut projects involve shipping to and from Germany, Switzerland and  
Austria and just in the last year shipping cost has more than doubled I 
suspect  customs fees have something to do with it. Paper work has also shot 
up, mainly  do to the fact that what was covered by short form now is a long 
form. With in  EU and the US  shipping is reasonable but a 100 mile shipment 
from  Switzerland to Germany or the other direction and you talk 20 Euro 
plus.
Bert Kehren. 
 
 
In a message dated 6/27/2013 5:53:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
planophore at aei.ca writes:

Often  times it is not the perception of additional but rather the 
additional  paper work involved in the customs declaration and possibly 
having to go  to the post office and wait in line to get the parcel on 
it's  way.

To be far, many who list their items as US Only will when I ask,  mail 
them also to Canada. I have noticed a trend lately however, were many  
will list the shipping as First Class International flat fee (or  
something like that) which is often 2x or more what it could really be.  
There are many sellers which have it all figured out, provide first rate  
service and reasonable postage charges. The others just haven't quite  
gotten their yet or the amount of their sales going cross border are so  
few in number they have just adopted a way of dealing them which  
provides them the least amount of work.

There is another US seller  "Dans Small Part" who has lots of good items 
at good prices but will not  mail cross border. Fortunately there are 
always other  options.

cheers, Graham ve3gtc




On 13-06-26 11:04 PM,  Mike M wrote:
>    Mark C. Stephens
>    Wed  Jun 26 10:12:53 EDT 2013
>
>    > RDR have some  fantastic stuff.
>
>    > But they won't ship outside  of USA.
>
>    > I have  tried everything but  according to Mark  Cole  the manager,
>    > "The  loss  of  time  and   the  additional   risk  of international
>    > shipping doesn't fit  with our business profile"
>
>    I don't   know  why   they   think   there   is  additional  risk with
>    international  shipments. Just send it with a signature required, and
>    it  has exactly the same risk as any ordinary shipment in the US.  But
>    a lot of vendors feel the same  way.
>
>    

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