[78-L] The Nuisance of UP International Priority Mail & The Global Shipping Program

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

So what's the best way to send something international from the US that will get there??



On Friday, October 25, 2013 7:47 PM, jeffrey smedbron <bottomlessattic at yahoo.com> wrote:
  
For me as a frequent ebay seller sending anything Int. First Class Mail is a disaster. Almost everything is claimed as not received and ebay immediatly takes the money for it out of my account and I never see the item again. You will never win a claim dispute if you use FC Mail. Even had one buyer with the gall to give feedback how nice the item was after stiffing me with the claim, so I know he got the item and all his money back. Ebay does nothing about this and never will. Now if a buyer was willing to make an unassociated to the auction paypal back up payment to me that I would return after the claim period is over then I would do it, but funny how no buyer will ever agree to that.
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>Jeff S    
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>On Thu, 10/24/13, Birgit Lotz Verlag <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>Subject: [78-L] The Nuisance of UP International Priority Mail & The Global Shipping Program
>To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 4:26 AM
>
>Sending USPS International Priority
>to overseas customers is an enormous 
>nuisance:
>
>While letter post will be delivered straight away, traceable
>packets 
>must go through customs, where both import duties and value
>added tax 
>will be charged.
>
>One would have to pick up the packet at the customs house,
>which in my 
>case means travelling up to an hour by car during a working
>day, then 
>join a long queue.
>
>The alternative is to email customs the invoice, and ebay
>numbers (since 
>for some inexplicable reason American sellers tend to never
>attach the 
>invoice on the OUTSIDE of the packet, as required).
>
>My local customs office (in western Germany) then sends
>everything by 
>mail to a central customs office some 600 km away (at the
>far end of 
>eastern Germany), where it will be processed further. This
>normally 
>requires another fortnight (!) until the goods finally
>arrive at my home 
>-- with a customs invoice which has to be paid cash to the
>mailman...
>
>On top of that, USPS Priority Mail charges are about double
>the charges 
>for regular uninsured letter airmail. And the advantage of
>airmail is 
>brought ad absurdum by this bureaucratic delay.
>
>I therefore always URGE American sellers to send items as
>letters, not 
>packets, and adjust the invoices accordingly. I am prepared
>to bear the 
>risk of not being able to track the item (an alternative
>would be to 
>send by registered mail).
>
>I just won two items from the same seller. I received what
>might be an 
>automatically generated invoice, charging the postage twice,
>and 
>stipulating USPS international priority mail.
>
>I then contacted the seller:
>
>"Could you please check the charges for combined shipping?
>
>I prefer regular airmail, NOT USPS Priority Mail, because a
>packet will 
>always have to pass customs while letter post is
>unproblematic, and 
>cheaper."
>
>The seller answered:
>
>"Here is the message I receive from eBay when I try to
>invoice your 
>transactions -
>"you can't send invoice for this order .
>
>The item(s) will ship using the Global Shipping Program. As
>part of the 
>program, buyer directly pays international shipping and
>import charges 
>to the third-party shipping provider. The buyer will still
>be able to 
>complete checkout even if you don't send an invoice."
>
>It sounds like you will be hearing from the Third Party
>Shipper employed 
>by eBay as to the shipping charges owed. Hopefully you will
>be able to 
>work it out with them. Sorry I can't be of any additional
>help. Thank 
>you for bidding."
>
>This sounds rather strange to me, actually, this never
>happened to me 
>before. Does any one have an explanation? What can I do?
>
>-- 
>Dr. Rainer E. Lotz
>Rotdornweg 81
>53177 Bonn (Germany)
>
>Tel: 0049-228-352808
>Fax: 0049-228-365142
>Web: www.lotz-verlag.de
>
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