Thread: A Heads Up On Mailing Items Overseas From The USA

I'm putting this post in this forum, rather than the conversation forum, so that new folks can see it too. I sold a couple of high priced custom straight razors to a fellow in Germany. Because you cannot get insurance or tracking with flat rate priority mail, I mailed them by regular priority which is more than twice the price. They arrived with no problem within a couple of weeks.

Months went by and the fellow asked if I had any more razors by that maker I'd be willing to sell. I came up with a couple and he bought them for north of a thousand dollars. Having done biz with him before I opted to send them flat rate priority and uninsured.

I don't know if the USPS is affected by the recent terrorist attempts to blow up planes with packages but ..... 4 weeks went by with no delivery. At five weeks the buyer emailed that he had received another package of razors (RAD obviously) from the USA that took 6 weeks to arrive. I'm wondering if they are going over water rather than air, or if they are undergoing more scrutiny ?

This did not help my angst much. I was kicking myself in the you know where for saving $20.00 on postage when it was going to cost me $1200.00 in a refund if the package didn't get there. A week later I opened my inbox and there was an email that the razors had arrived safely. Six weeks to get there and I learned a lesson. From here on out everything goes insured with tracking. Just a heads up for anyone who might be as foolish as I was.