Problem with shippment from Europe to Non-Europ country ( Internationa

[Guest kocev]

Hello...

If anybody can HELP ME. I am any auction seller of ancient ROMAN COINS. I have a lot of problem with sending coins from AUSTRIA (WIEN) to USA or AUSTRALIA or any other country outside EUROPE. I am new in this thing. I try with DHL , UPS, FEDEX and I get the same answear. NO COINS FOR SENDING. Please if anybody can HELP ME. How to send coins from Austria to USA.

Thank you.

[Chris Perkins 228]

I've had the same problem from the UK before and now from Germany.

Most courier companies don't cover 'coins' as they are considered as valuables, and some countries have strange policies that don't allow insured packages from certain countries. For example, from Germany I can't send coins insured to the USA, so what I do is send them insured to my dad in England who then sends them insured to the USA! For some reason items sent insured from the UK are valid (up to GBP500 I think).

I've tried UPS too and when you tell them they are 'coins' they don't cover them to anywhere. What I've also done in the past in blatantly lied and described the package as containing 'antiquities'. The logic behind that is that if they get lost, they'll never know it was coins, but you do have to be careful and accept a bit of a risk.

Within Europe is also fine for me via DHL (Deutsche Post) as coins are covered, even to Russia and Italy, which can be like sending coins into a black hole!

From Austria, if the rules are the same as from Germany, then I doubt there is a way of sending things properly insured to places outside the EU, because it seems the post offices simply aren't that chummy with the non EU lands.

You need to find a trustworthy person in a country within the UK that is able to insure things to non EU places. (from England I can even send things insured to Kazakhstan!)

[Guest kocev]

Hello Criss and Thank you for answer.

Please tell me which post office do you use from Germany to England. Is it UPS or DHL or some else. And do you give them any open box and do you insured the box.

Thank you .....

[Chris Perkins 228]

I use Deutsche Post (DHL) for insured parcels (up to EUR500) and coin packages (up to EUR2,285). I use UPS for books and urgent parcels.

Neither of those will let you send coins insured outside of the EU, so that's when the Royal Mail in England comes in handy.