I may be answering my own question (rant). I found this discussion at Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/11913364/ Seems German Customs needs to see an invoice accessible from the outside. I tend not to ship any paperwork. Only the required Customs Declaration pasted on the box. I think I'll have to invest in these: <http://atlanticpoly.com/images/envelopes.jpg> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 9:04:41 AM UTC-8, 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/602ed603-ff40-4ea0-ae77-81ada9e4e27b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
