Fred, The workaround is to recognize in advance that the combination of USPS+Royal Mail, USPS+Australia Post, etc. is essentially hopeless and will lead to the recipient of high-ish value parcels having to do considerable work in order to ransom the item from the customs folks in the receiving country. The shipping process works much better when a Tier-1 courier is involved, since the customs and taxes can be arranged and paid during the transit stage.
Unfortunately, Elecraft's preferred carrier - UPS - is certainly not Tier-1 in this part of the world and, in my experience, the recipient still has to do quite a bit of hand-holding and monitoring to make sure the import process goes well. My further experience over many years of shipping high-end scientific and test equipment leads me to prefer DHL but, unfortunately, shipping from Elecraft with DHL has been deprecated when I've suggested it. I think it'd be useful for Elecraft to pay attention to the feedback from Lower Spewing, Kanga Valley, or whatever international destinations are involved. There's not much of value in getting commentary from California! 73, Peter. -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Fred Jensen Sent: Thursday, 3 August 2023 10:15 AM To: G4GNX <g4...@g4gnx.com> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Buying a K4 in UK G4GNX wrote on 8/2/2023 4:40 PM: > "Supposing that USPS do their job correctly" That might happen right after the pubs in the UK begin serving ice cold Guiness in frozen mugs, Alan. The US Postal Service used to be the most trusted agency of our government. Today, I put at least one and often more mis-delivered mail pieces into the do-over box for our carrier to get it right hoping that whoever got our mail is doing likewise. Benjamin Franklin, where are you?73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. http://www.avg.com/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://secure-web.cisco.com/1r935fz6TCfq7V-wRDrHwyFmL5X0RoZYQdkWeJKWQDDAEZjo_Zg_1Y5kyeXpBq1ogU_gvp_Hq8j4s6CUMlfsi_jsDNftrAXvWtj89OpjDSu9zXySw3_WIuH19E55zeS7dV_082ccjj5NMmDKUVlRgQWv-J0YlNWWOKkFcZl5thiBm5QncM01zl_bD2qgsbDM_FEmxTAeuWoF2GJX-rTzoOR7MqH4Hk05yA0h-D67eIKmigXDzYwRreO2rIuP4l37kQE_cSUFVX797D9pjnFSQIVbhgxAeVbOFnDCtdsuD2XP6GsmSf2IDf-7sqGoX_-qVeEIjoDl5hXjXPQ6S9yewjdtM2rtlLPGYvHKLOwhZNsEMYdb-NPRGc9NcotVJqkcHNVEP8tJ4CvT41sujytJviv6KYkDDMlPGXXM546kqMV85XR19cFlREKdIwvzGyBLAwJay2KSnffv3ITCmR_YvmQ/http%3A%2F%2Fmailman.qth.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Felecraft Help: http://secure-web.cisco.com/1tQTdHJcClKnkc7152Luud07dQEHPoIpMSpCgv-9G4RmSqhwNkwuuQ5ZT0Vokgk_kt5xe1TuZB7PH1868-b-toi0C8kxuEG1NKItkGK7Vh-fJk3fev0qbnmwSY_TIvQWzpIKowaPS8nhD5HsiJsptGe_r1b-s1RTjP2s3lt0BOwZ8O4bw62Bg8cQFVLQXJqTjsUoGk5amMh1WGDPquPqSI7ZqWu2wzBjrEuh8B8grWu_9-74_7Oy34UJiCrCzUebPkbDxO8rED4k5YhdcTaY1rodTyxQstAZtkpq-gjwTafgplcvh76G8RHexMmgzgZpUBz0XAxdfSC5qinww8W0ACjQFKQeo8BmtWAHfKutEY-SDd9o0r5iDX-iWgKycqQiEmb3_6YIjBxidiMVgGfTnZWFswzDyOUL3ek-Z4DKjQ4NRfWtitLpJ0gviUKXb-co3IbyIeK0iPCg12VMrZ48MeQ/http%3A%2F%2Fmailman.qth.net%2Fmmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net/ Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to p.h...@curtin.edu.au ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
