shipping to the netherlands

I've had packages undelivered by the British postal service, also Germany, France and Italy.

After not being able to deliver my parcels they wanted more $$$ to ship back to me. Too much hassle.

I guess if I was still in that biz, and selling thru Ebay, I'd use their international shipping service.

One of my supers at UPS (drove for them during Christmas rush) was on special assignment in France when they bought a package carrier and rebranded them UPS when they entered the Euro market.

He said that carriers local drivers would come back at the end of their day and simply dump their packages in a big pile and the next morning all the drivers would look thru the pile for packages with their areas postal code and load them
The ones on the bottom of the pile might be there for a month before someone found them and finally made the delivery.

When UPS announced they would be installing conveyors to move packages to the correct vans the drivers went on strike. It took months of labor disputes before they finally convinced the workers you could deliver a package anywhere in France in less than two weeks!