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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8162181, member: 118780&quot;]Thought I&#039;d provide some tips I&#039;ve learned over the last year regarding shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>When will my *#(&amp;# package ship!?</b></p><p>Besides the fact that things have been slow for the holidays and 97% of the world has Covid, a number of countries also have export licenses. The auction house typically handle this for you, but it can take 3 weeks or more. I know for a fact this is the case from Austria, but I believe it also applies to Switzerland. Packages from sellers in the UK, Germany, and France typically ship quicker.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>There are no updates on my package! It just says &quot;picked up&quot;</b></p><p>For those shipping to the US, typically the seller hands it off to Deutsche Post, France Poste, SwissPost, etc, and they&#039;re then sent via some means to the US, where they go through customs and are transferred to USPS. You won&#039;t receive any updates while the package is travelling to the US. Also, you typically won&#039;t see updates on the foreign post&#039;s site once it reaches the US. To see updates when it arrives in the US, use the foreign tracking number in USPS.gov. This will tell you how it progresses through customs and makes it&#039;s way to you.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>I don&#039;t live in Australia, but my package from Switzerland is heading there. Why?</b></p><p>This confused me a great deal, so I followed up with the seller. It turns out it was a bug on SwissPost&#039;s site. The package was correctly shipped to the US.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>How long does it take a package to reach the US from Europe?</b></p><p>So far, my record is about one month for a package I still haven&#039;t received from the Netherlands. It still hasn&#039;t arrived in the US. I&#039;ve had packages take nearly that long from Germany. Note if they use DSL or Fedex it goes much quicker. Recently I ordered two coins - one from North Carolina and one from Austria. The Austrian coin arrived first (interestingly it didn&#039;t need export paperwork - maybe because it was cheap). In my experience, USPS can be phenomenally slow, so I try to avoid it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps. Feel free to add your own tips.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obligatory coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424767[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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