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We have a local logistics center of UPS here in town. My mother deals with their offices weekly.
Anyways, one of the people my mother knows well there just spewed some BS I find completely unbelievable. According to this woman it doesn't matter what kind of insurance you put on an international shipment (i.e. transatlantic), because they do not look at that, instead there is this agreed fixed rate of something like $20 per KG of whatever is being shipped and that is what you get if your stuff gets destroyed in transit.
Can anyone "in the know", confirm this? It sounds like total (illegal) bullshit (an insurance contract is an insurance contract, afterall, even if it is subsidiary to the shipping contract).
It says so right there in the UPS guide that the agreed fixed rate (if legally obligated) is a max of about $100 or $10 per kg IF no insurance has been paid...So is this chick bjust babbling nonsense after all?
This would have BIG consequences. Because for anyone in Europe importing guitars from the US this agreed fixed rate would basically mean that you could declare a customs value of $200 on every guitar and get virtually 0 import tax or VAT.
But the DOWNSIDE: what the hell happens if your $3000 guitar gets destroyed in transit?!
Anyways, one of the people my mother knows well there just spewed some BS I find completely unbelievable. According to this woman it doesn't matter what kind of insurance you put on an international shipment (i.e. transatlantic), because they do not look at that, instead there is this agreed fixed rate of something like $20 per KG of whatever is being shipped and that is what you get if your stuff gets destroyed in transit.
Can anyone "in the know", confirm this? It sounds like total (illegal) bullshit (an insurance contract is an insurance contract, afterall, even if it is subsidiary to the shipping contract).
It says so right there in the UPS guide that the agreed fixed rate (if legally obligated) is a max of about $100 or $10 per kg IF no insurance has been paid...So is this chick bjust babbling nonsense after all?
This would have BIG consequences. Because for anyone in Europe importing guitars from the US this agreed fixed rate would basically mean that you could declare a customs value of $200 on every guitar and get virtually 0 import tax or VAT.
But the DOWNSIDE: what the hell happens if your $3000 guitar gets destroyed in transit?!
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