[Elecraft] Private Sales of used Elecraft Rigs

[Eugene Balinski]

USPS is my preferred shipper.  As I have mentioned before,
they are local, they are generally helpful, are probably
your neighbors, and have no interest in keeping you from
insurance claims should the need arise.   My mailman has
even run around to the back of my house to place packages
out of the rain.  

73

K1NR 

K2 6Kxx




On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:49:27 -0500
 n5ge at n5ge.com wrote:
> 
> Here in the USA I always choose USPS Priority Mail if
> given the option.  It
> usually costs about the same as UPS Ground and is always
> delivered within two
> business days of being shipped.  Why pay more?
> 
>  
> 
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:32:42 +0200, István Szabó
> <ha4zd at t-online.hu> wrote:
> 
> >USPS is great to buy goods from US. Reasonable cost and
> I have never had 
> >any issues with them. For transceivers this should be a
> tracked package. 
> >UPS is more costly but also good.
> >
> >István Szabó
> >HA4ZD
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 6/2/2011 7:25 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> >> On 6/2/2011 10:06 AM, Jan Erik Holm wrote:
> >>> I can not understand how going down to the local post
> >>> office would be a problem and if the customer pays
> the
> >>> shipping why would that present a problem for the
> seller,
> >>> but then again what do I know?
> >> Shipping via the US Postal Service is not something
> that many of us
> >> would choose to do, especially with something as
> delicate and valuable
> >> as a ham transceiver.  That's a big part of why UPS
> and Fed Ex exist.
> >>
> >> In my case, the major reason I don't want to sell
> internationally is the
> >> matter of customs and duties, with the associated
> paperwork.  Here it's
> >> mostly ignorance of what is needed, what the
> procedures are, etc.  I
> >> might look at it differently with a ham I knew as the
> buyer.  Nothing
> >> parochial beyond ignorance. :)
> >>
> >> 73, Jim K9YC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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