[Leica] selling used camera gear from Canada to USA

[leicagalpal at earthlink.net (Kit McChesney)]

Actually, that's not true. (With all due respect!)

I send packages to Europe via USPS--Global Express Mail--all the time.
Expensive pacakges (you know what I mean!) And they are trackable. What
happens is that USPS Express Mail hands them over to a company in Europe
called General Parcel, sort of a UPS-type outfit. They assign a new tracking
number and USPS can give me that number on this end once the transfer is
made. I can also track on the USPS Web site. 

I have several customers in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Norway,
UK, Italy ... You get the idea, those European lands, and also Japan, and I
send all their goodies this way. It's less expensive and I have not had one
single problem. And it takes only a few days. But it's gotta be Express, and
it's gotta be insured. One can send a new M7 to Germany, insured, for about
$60 (compare UPS or Fedex at about $120 or so). 

Kit 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Philippe Orlent
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:30 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] selling used camera gear from Canada to USA

But don't use USPS if you want to sent something to Europe. It takes ages
and customs becomes a real duty that way. In Belgium anyway. No way of
tracking the parcel that way, either.

> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:52:59 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] selling used camera gear from Canada to USA
> 
> 
>> If you ship it via UPS the recipient will be required to pay an
>> extra (substantial) charge. I suggest avoiding them. I can't
>> remember exactly what they call the charge, whether it is "duty" or
>>  something else; but the declared contents will not avoid the
>> charge. I have been maddened by this more than once.
> 
> Boy, is this true. UPS kills you with additional charges. I've had the
same
> problem shipping to people in Ontario. For shipping across the US/Canada
> border, use the US Postal Service or Canada Post, as appropriate.
> 
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