[meteorite-list] Shipping to Italy Question

[Francesco Moser]

Hello! About 1year ago the Italian Post had a lot of problems! The italian 
newspapers have spoken about more than 200ton of mail (also registered and 
assured mail) blocked for many weeks, beacuse there weren't enough postmen 
for deliver the post. In that period the internal post and the foreing mail 
were very very slow...and many package went lost! At now seems all works 
better... But, as Matteo tell you, at know the Customs are the very big 
problem. Could happens that the post stops at the customs for more than 
2-3weeks and you have to pay more than 25% of fees. Every times I ask to the 
dealers to indicate on the package something like "Rocks sample for study 
without value" and indicate as value 0$ or something just a little more 
expensive than the shipping cost...10$ or 15$. At now I have had problem 
just one time, the package was sent back to the dealer. But I never lost 
anything. The Deutsche Post had lost 1.2g of Mars that I have sold to a 
German collector!!!!
Thanks!

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Francesco Moser
IMCA #1510



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Catterton" <star_wars_collector at yahoo.com>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:40 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Shipping to Italy Question


>I have seen many people are not willing to ship to Italy without high 
>dollar postage. What is the reason for this?
> Also, what other places should people be careful when shipping to?
> Thanks,
>
> Greg C.
>
>
>
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