We used to ship to Russia UPS or Fedex with no problems. No USPS problems. With the turmoil going on between our two countries, it wouldn't surprise me for the USPS to be a pawn in the argument.
Shipping with the other two carriers was very easy. They take care of all the paperwork. UPS charges for doing that but Fedex doesn't. When I took over the company we stopped selling outside the US. Reasons are possible ITAR problems, no CE stamp and in our particular case, the induction heater's frequency might not be legal in that company. My main reason was ITAR. I did my research and read about horror stories of people shipping ordinary devices, only to have the State dept declare the processor and its firmware a "munition" and heavily fine the victim. I would expect Russia to be a particular problem in that area. John On 05/03/2016 01:36 PM, 'threeneurons' via neonixie-l wrote: > In the past I've sent a few parcels to Russia without any problems. Parcels > usually got there in a timely manner. Only one parcel didn't make it. > Actually, it did. It got all the way to the proper city, in Russia. Then it > got stamped "return to sender", and ended up, unopened, back on my door > step. Full circuit time ~4 months. > > Today, somebody in Moscow, ordered a dohickie, thru eBay. I went to the > usual routine of trying to fill out the customs form on line. A little > problem. Looks like the US Postal Service has no country of Russia, or > Russian Federation, in their computer. I called up the post office toll > free number, and asked. They were no help. > > I'm wondering if anyone, here, has had any issues with parcels to Russia, > within the last month or two ? There's some noise about Russian Customs on > other Internet forums. I never rely on those. Too much noise. Very little > fact. > > I'll try contacting the US State department, and see if they have any > notices. > -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.tnduction.com <-- THE source for induction heaters http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BarbraJoanOriginals/neu <-- Fine Art Originals PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 -- 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/5728E955.7040905%40neon-john.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
