Guest watchbuff Posted November 25, 2007 Report Share Posted November 25, 2007 Just curious, but i had a few projects completed for some Italian folk and I shipped from CONUS and found not once but twice, the shipments were "halted". One was a DJ franken that never made it and the other was parts that made it but was obviously opened by other than the recipient. Of course no info of mine was on the sender's end ( anonymous is my middle name) I have antoerh Franken that an eager customer is waiting for and perplexed on how to send it. it seems harder to get the "goods" through there and a german blockade to euorope circa 1943 whe the wolfpack's ruled the Atlantic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted November 25, 2007 Report Share Posted November 25, 2007 Italian customs have always been highly anti-rep. You need to ship to a friendlier country in the EU then get it reshipped to Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piratedzeus Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 German, Belgian,Norways, Austria and especially Italy customs are doing their job quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Canada customs also does an electrifying job if you know what I mean... No actually they do not touch counterfeit stuff at all or investigate it even remotely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avitt Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 (edited) Italy is notorious for confiscated shipments, and packages stolen in transit. You just have to notice all of the eBay sellers who expressly exclude buyers from Italy to know that there's a problem. Edited November 26, 2007 by avitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tech Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 I will add to that... L'ufficio postale e pazzo.....che cazzo fai.... Don't send squat to italy unless you are within the EU.... let's see, I have had a gen Dunhill lighter stolen courtesy of them and have had lots of friends "lose" packages within that system. I have a friend there that I am trying to make contact with to see if he can accomodate any future italian deliveries....I'll let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a german in denmark Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 He never left (Mussolini)... in some parts of that great country, anyway... I lost two eBay shipments, snatched by postal workers in Milano. I am not shipping to Italy any more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 i do watch business since 1999 and have ship over 3.000 parcels to worldwide... never big problems... ONLY when i ship to italy. So many stolen or missing parcels to italy... i don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r11co Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 If I have to get something to Italy I usually take it there personally. Wife once decided she wanted to have the latest Harry Potter book shipped over from UK by Amazon while we were on extended holiday in Italy. By the time it arrived she'd have been quicker getting someone to read it to her over the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piratedzeus Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Oh well... sent a postcard from Italy in Octobre - arrived new year ..quit long to travel 1000km to Germany... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest watchbuff Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 So if it was stolen in the mail, I guess tough luck. But if customs seized it, would I get a notice or would the recipient get a notice? Just curious? The mail phnatom has struck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avitt Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 So if it was stolen in the mail, I guess tough luck. But if customs seized it, would I get a notice or would the recipient get a notice? It's more likely that the recipient would receive a extortion letter, asking for the payment of duties/taxes/tariffs. I've had that happen on deliveries to Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hambone Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 This, the last photo taken of Mussolini and his mistress kind of squashes the notion that you might see El Duce zipping around the streets of Milan on a Vespa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gioarmani Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 This, the last photo taken of Mussolini and his mistress kind of squashes the notion that you might see El Duce zipping around the streets of Milan on a Vespa. More like El Douche'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrandazzo Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 It's not so good ship something to Italy by regular mail. its better: ========== registered mail insured security label on the side of the package (never had problem this way). ========== But if you put a Rolex franken in a regular mail package... you might lost it! I think that Non-Eu countries are black listed. Everythings comes from there, its stopped in Milano-Roserio Hub, where they check the package. Eu countries => no problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrandazzo Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Oh yes, and I am talking within EU. Bastards! I'm sorry about that Repaustria! That's unelievable! Within EU! That's scary I had never heard this before. How about your package? Was it sealed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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