Worth the effort?

yellow rose said

I had to ship some documents from the U.S. to Hungary and they had to be there on a certain date. We had 14 days to get them there. FedEx was the only one who would touch it. They guaranteed to get it there in 10 days or it was free.

Of course, they didn’t arrive for 20 days, and I got my $245.00 back.

My point is I can’t image what a nightmare it is for you in Europe to trade with us here. It shouldn’t be that hard. And it sucks for you guys especially.

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10 days is still pretty lousy for a company like FedEx with an armada of airplanes going everywhere just about every day...

Lighter and or smaller stuff kinda works, stuff that would go by the normal snail-mail channels and or FedEx-like parcel handling, but once you go outside those dimensions then all kinds of special crap kicks in..

Importing a $9000 car costs about $10-11 perhaps a little bit cheaper if you're experienced and have good contacts, but probably not by much.