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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3929106, member: 99239&quot;]There is no registered option for international John. The only reliable way to do this is to use Fedex or DHL; at least for the &gt;$1,000 coins. When you&#039;re sending a coin internationally make sure to put in the declaration form &quot;ancient coin&quot; and use the HS tariff code 97050040 (there will be a box for this).</p><p><br /></p><p>For coins that are not that valuable you might consider just sending them through the USPS with third party insurance. For example, I use Shipstation which offers discounted insurance and a streamlined claims process which I&#039;ve already used successfully. However, there&#039;s a bunch of other companies offering similar services. Anyway, here&#039;s a list of countries that I send orders to frequently:</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan - has the world&#039;s most reliable delivery. I&#039;ve never had one issue nor have heard of other businesses running into any problems whatsoever</p><p><br /></p><p>Australia - very reliable delivery but often slow through customs</p><p><br /></p><p>New Zealand - similar to Australia</p><p><br /></p><p>France/Netherlands: very, very reliable. </p><p><br /></p><p>Spain: very reliable as far as delivery but they&#039;re brutal when it comes to documentation and customs fees. However, this is a burden mostly on the recipient though your customers will often ask for additional invoicing to submit to their customs before release</p><p><br /></p><p>Sweden/Germany: also extremely reliable but hit or miss whether they get held up in customs and when they do it can be quite a hassle</p><p><br /></p><p>Switzerland: personally no problems but this country has a bad reputation with other dealers for nitpicky customs, high fees, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Italy: risky to send through USPS but perfectly ok through FedEx/DHL</p><p><br /></p><p>Eastern Europe: I would expect problems not only with delivery but also with dishonest customers where I think (hopefully not an unfair stereotype) have a culture of &quot;it&#039;s ok if I can get away with it&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>China: abominable. Their customs is a blackhole of continuous problems but if your package manages that gauntlet internal delivery within China is very efficient and speedy. Unfortunately, there&#039;s a very high rate of fraud from customers themselves. I would simply choose to not do business here.</p><p><br /></p><p>South America: forget it. There&#039;s only four countries that are likely to order: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile and all have high rates of theft and slow customs. Use DHL</p><p><br /></p><p>Middle East: very risk through USPS. In this case many of the problems seem to be related to address nomenclature being problematic for local delivery. I would only use DHL or FedEx</p><p><br /></p><p>South Africa (the only country in Africa except maybe Egypt that is likely to order) is on a par with South America. The likelihood of your USPS parcel reaching is close to zero unless you go with Priority Mail Express (not just plain Priority Mail)</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, Priority Mail express is simply DHL/UPS/FedEx once it leaves the USA. Unless you move a lot of merchandise it&#039;s easier and cheaper to use PM Express than going through one of the other companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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