Shipping to Russia - Recently ?

[threeneurons]

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.

[chuck richards]

USPS is nearly completely nonfunctional now.
Has been this way now for about the past year.

It's really bad. It's a crapshoot every time now whether
any package will be shipped properly, or be hopelessly damaged
or lost.

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[David Forbes]

I had trouble sending Nixie watches to Russia a couple years ago, so I
stopped trying.

Their customs dept. seem to not want anyone to send anything of value to
a residential address.

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[NeonJohn]

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

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[kosbo.com]

Within last 2 years I've got lots of parcels  received to my Russian home address from Europe, China, Japan and never had problem with Russian Customs office, as unlike in the UK  (15GBP)  you can import goods to Russia with up to 1000USD declared value with no extra pay of VAT or any other customs duties...  Unfortunately  never had anything directly from  USA to Russia, so it might be some specific/problem  related to Russia-USA.....

[Jon]

I sent a package to Russia from the UK a few weeks ago and that went smoothly. The on line tracking even worked quite well which was a pleasant surprise.

Jon.

[threeneurons]

On Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 10:36:41 AM UTC-7, threeneurons wrote:

Today, somebody in Moscow, ordered a dohickie, thru eBay. ... the US Postal Service has no country of Russia, or Russian Federation, in their computer.

Well, I just got back from the post office. Shipped the package, with an old fashion green CN22 customs declaration, with the info filled in by hand, in ink. The clerk, at the post office, had to enter all that info in the computer, which could have been avoided, had I been allowed to do it online, like I usually do, and have done, for the past couple of years. Also I don't need to fill in the "sender" info, since that gets "auto-filled", on my computer.

The agents, at the post office toll free number call center, gave me all kinds of fairy stories. The one they locked in on, is that countries, with big fraud issues, get removed from the online list. Then I asked, if it was safe to ship to Russia, and they answered "yes". Its all got the smell of "bovidae crappus".

I'm taking the risk, that they won't bother to steal a $30 item. Though , a cool one, in my opinion.