Re: shipping from u.s.a. to italy...suggestions?

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

At 02:41 PM 1/21/2003, jimfowler wrote:
>i sold my lexicon to a person in italy.  fedex and ups are ridiculously
>expensive (both around 200 bucks) and usps is anywhere from 42 bucks to 
>160.
>is this a no-brainer or is there something i should know about usps.
>
>anybody sent stuff to italy (or internationally in general)before and have
>some suggestions?

I use US postal service to send things internationally all the time 
(including Italy). I think it works great. Things get there fast and I've 
never had anything lost so far. It also seems to be very smooth in getting 
through customs, I assume due to long established treaties forging the 
links between various government's postal operations. I've seen major 
problems with shipments with UPS getting stuck in customs forever, but 
that 
was a long time ago so maybe they've figured it out now. I don't really 
care since the good old postal service is cheaper and works fine.

kim


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