<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We have also used the "USPS Customs Forms tool" to complete the online form without an account. The one issue we have encountered is the system's inability to read non-English letters (à, é, ñ, ß, etc.). However instead of giving instructions to remove the accents it says "<span style="color:rgb(229,30,43);font-family:Arial;font-size:12px">An unexpected error has occurred. Please try refreshing the page.</span>" It took us a while to figure out that the "error" was the use of accents - ironic given that the form is specifically for shipping internationally.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><b><font color="#007f00" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Laura Eklund, MA JD</span></font><font color="#1f497d"><br></font></b><span style="color:rgb(127,127,127);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Collections Manager<br></span><span style="color:rgb(127,127,127);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Department of Anthropology<br></span><span style="color:rgb(127,127,127);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">California Academy of Sciences<br></span><span style="color:rgb(127,127,127);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">T 415.379.5383<br></span><span style="color:rgb(226,88,44);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><a href="mailto:leklund@calacademy.org" target="_blank">leklund@calacademy.org</a><br></span><br><a href="http://www.calacademy.org" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt" target="_blank">www.calacademy.org</a><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><font color="#7e7e7e">55 Music Concourse Drive<br></font></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><font color="#7d7d7d">Golden Gate Park<br></font></span><span style="color:rgb(126,126,126);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">San Francisco, CA 94118<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><br>The entire Anthropology collection database is available online:<br></span><a href="http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/index.asp" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/index.asp</a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 7:25 AM Tocci (Lewis-Gentry), Genevieve E. <<a href="mailto:glewis-g@oeb.harvard.edu">glewis-g@oeb.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">We have been exclusively filling out the USPS customs forms online for about a year. Our local post office sent us several notifications in warning that only the online forms would be accepted,
and we are in a big enough metro area that they were very strict from the beginning.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The nice thing is that while a bit more work than the paper forms it is easy to do online and print and no online account is necessary if you select the “USPS Customs forms tool” on the top of the
customs forms page </span><a href="https://www.usps.com/international/customs-forms.htm" target="_blank">https://www.usps.com/international/customs-forms.htm</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Genevieve</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">Genevieve E. Tocci (she, her, hers)</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Senior Curatorial Technician</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Harvard University Herbaria</span><br>
<span style="background:white">22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Phone: 617-495-1057 Fax: 617-495-9484</span><br>
<span style="background:white"><a href="mailto:glewis-g@oeb.harvard.edu" target="_blank">glewis-g@oeb.harvard.edu</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Nhcoll-l <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Doug Yanega<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 28, 2020 1:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] new US Customs regulations?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Hi, all. We have been having some serious problems trying to send specimens to overseas destinations in the past two months, and I'm wondering whether anyone else is having similar difficulties, and/or knows exactly how to comply with the new policies.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>We have gotten packages returned with comments that we were using outdated forms, and we went to the Post Office and got what were ostensibly the new forms. Just today we got back a package with what we had thought was a correct form, but it had been stamped
to indicate that they will not accept forms that are handwritten, and instead ONLY digital Customs forms will be accepted.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>It's possible that these rejected shipments reflect some genuine changes in the regulations, but these days it seems like it could just as easily be that the personnel processing our shipments are mistakenly rejecting the shipments because THEY are confused.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>If the former, we would expect that we are not the only US institution having difficulty shipping internationally. So, I have two essential questions:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>(1) Has anyone else experienced similar rejections of shipments recently?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>(2) Is anyone aware *definitively* of the correct new forms and procedures, <b>
especially</b> if the forms must be filled out online?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Thanks in advance,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<pre>Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre> <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__faculty.ucr.edu_-7Eheraty_yanega.html&d=DwMCaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=EYdhJ0HrhAMcA2aVQ-I4N7lml00zxsXPbHYeP7843No&m=W8U2niuJUBB0RdqQ3iV6smshsjYvDDoTyHIU4zNkopU&s=yd168-9O1gwJR6kvnIB5ufpZOjsjkp_zYQ3nQQDMJkY&e=" target="_blank">https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html</a><u></u><u></u></pre>
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<pre> is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82<u></u><u></u></pre>
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