[sdiy] Shipping PCBs to the EU ???

[Tom Bugs]

Also to note:

All orders I've had from Futurlec for the past year or so that have used 
the regular airmail shipping rate have reached me fine with no charge in 
the UK.
- this has included quite a few which have had a declared customs form 
of over $100, both pcbs and general parts.
- I have, however, been charged when things come in via Fedex (plus they 
add their handling fee - often more than the customs charge)

I also heard from a friend in Portugal who says that his recent F'lec 
orders have all been got by the customs.
Conclusions...?!.?!


Louis van Dompselaar wrote:
>
>> I've received a commercial sample from Analog Devices this year, so 
>> it *is* possible, at least in some limited cases. I'm in the UK, 
>> which is obviously part of Europe unless you ask the wrong half of 
>> the people who live here. 
> Same here (to The Netherlands) with Maxim samples.  Twice in the past 
> three months without problems.
>
> However, Maxim doesn't ship it's samples from the US but from the 
> Philippines, that might be the difference.
>
> That said, I haven't had any packages from the US returned or gone 
> missing though.  Not this year and never in the past.
> And West Florida Components still gets its flat rate envelopes to me 
> within three or four days without customs forms.
>
>
>
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