I could offer to accept it to Switzerland, if that helps at all. Switzerland is geographically Europe, but politically not. Germany is only 50km away, and items up to $300 can be carried as personal goods across the border.
As long as you make sure that you put the customs declaration on the item, and it is less than $50 (declared) and there is a copy of the invoice in a plastic envelope on the outside, it should go through cleanly and without additional costs. My shipping experience is that you have to expect 1-2% loss, either because of real loss or punters who claim they didn't receive the item. I have never had one returned, and have stopped even putting a return address on parcels. If it helps, let me know. On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 18:04:41 UTC+1, threeneurons wrote: > > In the middle of October, I send a little parcel to our friend Dieter ( > http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/nixie-tubes.htm). As of a couple > of days ago, he emails me about the tracking number. I'm guessing he hasn't > received it yet. If you've read my past posts on this topic, you'll note > that delays to Germany (from the US) are frequent. I know from shipments to > England and France, that it takes less than a week to get to Europe. If I > was in Germany, I'd rattle the cage of my Postal officials. Maybe Customs. > They are obviously keeping it in some warehouse, before clearing it. > > Maybe somebody in France, Belgium, or the Netherlands could act as an > agent and hold on to the parcel. The German client can then take a long > weekend trip, to go an retrieve it ? Maybe they don't pass parcels from > another Euro country thru Customs ? > > I ship parcels to all over the world (Europe, Asia, South America, > Australia). The only time I've lost one, was to the inner bowels of > Thailand (not a big city like Bangkok). > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/1711500b-c740-42c0-a575-bcb9cb5fa975%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
