shipping to Korea from Canada vacuum tubes?

I have a customer who purchased 2 1930 vacuum tubes and wants them sent to Korea.He paid the shipping for light packet USA.I want to have a tracking number as well as insurance and make sure he is allowed to import those items and they are nonrestrictive.

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I have a customer who purchased 2 1930 vacuum tubes and wants them sent to Korea.He paid the shipping for light packet USA.I want to have a tracking number as well as insurance and make sure he is allowed to import those items and they are nonrestrictive.


 

May or may not be restricted, depends what they are classed as.

https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGIntDestDetails-e.asp?table=tblCountry&txtLetter=KR

 

Light Packet is a maximum of 2cm thick.

Small Packet (discounted about 20% through Shippo or PayPal) can be more than 2 cm thick but has no tracking.

Tracked Packet to South Korea is available, with $100 of insurance.

 

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The difference in shipping cost will be considerable.

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/far/business/findARate?execution=e1s1

Some sales are not worth having.

Give him the cost of shipping by Air Mail to South Korea with tracking. Insurance in probably included and frankly* pretty useless anyway.

Tell him politely that he will have to change his Paypal address to show the Korean address before you can prepare a shipping label.

Ask him if he would like to cancel the purchase.

Some sales are not worth having.

It is up to the customer to know the import restrictions for his own country. EBay will back you on this.

If the item can't be imported Cand vintage vacuum tubes sound pretty innocuous to me) they will be seized at customs. This is not your responsibility.

Some sales are not worth having.

 

He paid the shipping for light packet USA.

Ummm.

Light packet is only for items under 2cm thick. Where did he get that rate?

My dad was a radio/radar/TV specialist and always had a stack of tubes on his workbench and nightstand. Most were a good five or ten cm at their smallest side.

 

 

 

* You are insuring against damage in transit only. And if you try to claim it, the counter claim will be that you didn't pack properly. The only way you can win on that is by showing the notice Canada Post sticks on a package that has had a fifty pound box drop two feet on top of it. Which on some conveyor belts can happen.

Are you sure absolutely positive that you can ship to Guadeloupe for C $35.00 via UPS Worldwide Express? I haven't priced it out lately, but I'm thinking you may have missed a 1 or even 2 in front of the 35 there. 

C $35.00
Guadeloupe
UPS Worldwide ExpressTM
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