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

[H D Goldman]

Jeff,

It seems you're pissing on USPS for issues that have nothing to do with them actually delivering the package.  I've used this service for 20 yrs. w/o issues that could not be properly protected, including shipping to Africa & into Bosnia during the war.

Your problems seem to stem from working thru Ebay.  Sent your orders outside of Ebay, use the PO or U-Pic for insurance & you won't have these problems.

Just one man's opinion,

Duane Goldman 

On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:44 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.
> 
> Jeff S     
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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