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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 2827370, member: 71642&quot;]For the OP--</p><p><br /></p><p>You should probably contact CNG to clarify, but I interpret that as the USPS is stopping the international registered service.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That service happened to not have a value required for the USPS per se but I know I&#039;ve filled out the customs declaration form by hand, and that was visible on the package and I could have put &#039;zero&#039; or a negligible value (as I&#039;ve been asked to do by overseas people).</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead there will be International Priority.&nbsp; With the change the old paperwork won&#039;t be used and the new paperwork will use what they describe, including using the invoiced value as the declared value.&nbsp; I suspect they mean mail from a business entity like CNG, I can&#039;t see how that would apply if I happen to send a package to a friend of mine in Europe for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I am pretty sure the customs they are referring to is the incoming nation&#039;s customs.&nbsp; There shouldn&#039;t be customs on outgoing items (maybe an exporter tax??? but this isn&#039;t something I&#039;ve heard of people talking about).&nbsp; The few times I sold to overseas people any customs issues were on the receiving end, not my shipping end.&nbsp; Perhaps there is a change there?&nbsp; CNG should know <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>______________________</p><p>[USER=66]@Conder101[/USER] Regarding US customs fees--I recently got a package from Asia and ended up having to pay a customs fee to the US.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was shipped via FedEx and I was told because it was over a certain declared value it had to go through the &#039;formal import&#039; process.&nbsp; Fedex contacted me, paid the fee for me as my agent (and charged me $7 for the service).&nbsp; I have NO IDEA how an incoming custom&#039;s fee would have been handled or how I would have been notified if FedEx hadn&#039;t been involved, though google-fu seems to imply the USPS can do it too.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing I found online about it was it was a miniscule percentage (around .38 PERCENT) of the total, with a minimum &#039;merchandise processing fee&#039; of $25, which is what the fee was.&nbsp; Anyway, it looks like anything under $2500 won&#039;t likely be charged any kind of customs fee by the US...assuming it&#039;s not product for resale.&nbsp; Google-fu was confusing overall as to all this, but as far as I could tell this is what it was.&nbsp; <a href="https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/334/~/user-fee---merchandise-processing-fees" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/334/~/user-fee---merchandise-processing-fees" rel="nofollow">https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/334/~/user-fee---merchandise-processing-fees</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was the only time I&#039;ve ever paid a fee like that, but only twice had anything over the $2500 trigger point.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember paying it for an order from the British Mint, so perhaps the paperwork was done differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, either paying or not paying it one time was possibly wrong, or maybe it was a difference in being Asia vs. GB, or an auction win vs. purchase from a government mint, or something else.&nbsp; I certainly wasn&#039;t going to quibble about it considering all the other costs while the coin was in transit!&nbsp; I wanted the coin with me, not sent back to the auction house <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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