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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/28/20 12:39 PM, Bentley, Andrew
Charles wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Doug<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are these issues on the US end or the
international end? Are they related to customs or something
else? Do you have any info on the forms – names, codes, etc.?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If on the international end I would assume
that the rules are different for each country. Are there
specific countries that are proving to be problematic?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>It's strictly between us (or our university mailing office) and
the USPS, as it's the USPS that has been rejecting our attempted
shipments. We had been using form 2976-A and the small green form,
and when those were rejected we tracked down the new form. But
today, even with the 2976-R form provided by USPS, they just
returned one of those. Apparently, the regs changed some time
back, but not all USPS offices griped about it, as people reported
to me privately that they'd started getting rejects almost a year
ago, so maybe our local agents were just cutting us slack until
recently. <br>
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<p>The proper form and filing procedure appears to be linked here: <a href="https://www.usps.com/international/customs-forms.htm">https://www.usps.com/international/customs-forms.htm</a></p>
<p>It's going to mean a bit more frustration to prepare shipments
this way, given (1) yet another *$%@$ website that you can't use
at all unless you create a user account and password to go with
the 50 other accounts and passwords you have to navigate every
day, and (2) the requirements of the online form, according to
what Deb Trock told me:</p>
<p>"Another thing that took us a while to figure out is that on the
very first page of the on-line form it will ask you for the weight
of the package, which you will need to have before you start the
form. Then a couple of pages later it will ask you for the weight
of the contents. If you put down the same weight that you had
entered on the first page, it will reject your form because the
weight of the contents is added to the weight of the box and
packaging for the total weight. We usually just put the total
weight of the wrapped package on the first page and then subtract
a pound for the box and wrapping when it asks for the weight of
the contents a few pages later."</p>
<p>Frustrating, but not as bad as having packages actually returned
to us for re-shipping, so we'll just have to accommodate.</p>
<p>Peace,<br>
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Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html">https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html</a>
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</pre>
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