postage to the USA

jaffa30

Airsure costs £4.00 on top of the normal Airmail price for your item.

saying that it doesnt make any difference whwen the buyer if paying the postage


Jaffa

superscotsman

bleugh wrote:

BE CAREFUL,

about 60% of the items i post to the USA without a tracking number go 'missing'

I've never had one go missing. Have you tried writing the address on the front of the envelope?

nightswimmer

superscotsman wrote:

I've never had one go missing. Have you tried writing the address on the front of the envelope?

I'm the same, never had anything to the US go missing (touch wood :doh: ). I was quite shocked to see how much you have had go missing bleugh.

superscotsman

To tell the truth, I've only ever had one overseas package go astray, and that was one to South Africa back in 1998. If Nightswimmer and I don't have any problems, then the US Mail is monster clean.

If bleugh has had 0.6x packages go missing, either he is doing something wrong or there's someone at Bleugh's local Royal Mail on the take.

bleugh

posted 15 parcels to the USA last year, I had paypal chargebacks on 6 of them, and another two wanted replacements for non arrival

they were low value items <10 quid or so, just wasnt worth putting signed for on them

strangely, since i've started insisting that airsure delivery is used, regardless of value, OR they send cash, NOT paypal, i've not had one go missing

simple really, paypal+yank+no insurance = missing item

interestingly i've never had a parcel not turn up in the UK / europe, and thats over 800 now, yes, some have gone missing for months, but they've always turned up

Contains_Mild_Peril

I've sent 3 packages overseas since joining eBay (2 to USA, 1 to Australia) and they all arrived safely and got me +ve fedback, but one item I bought from the USA was stolen (I received an empty envelope). I've had 2 UK parcels I've sent go astray, and 1 arrived damaged.

nightswimmer

bleugh wrote:

posted 15 parcels to the USA last year, I had paypal chargebacks on 6 of them, and another two wanted replacements for non arrival

Yowch. That sucks bleugh.

I guess over the past 5 or 6 years I have sent on average 2 or 3 parcels per month to America, for personal stuff. And then this past year, on top of that I've been sending an extra 3 or 4 things per month for eBay stuff. And so far ( :doh: ), nothing has gone missing.

superscotsman

I not only send ebay packages abroad but I run a business that I have been running since 1994. The amount of overseas packages I have sent since then must run into 5 figures, and only one went astray.

6 out of 15. I don't know what to say...