Shipping to Italy.

[CaNsA]

I'm trying to get a decent, yet cheap service to send a zxr400 rear shock to Italy.
Signed for is needed
Tracking is a bonus.

Who would you use?

[map]

No actual recommendations but...

I have read (interweb is wonderful) that shipping stuff to Italy can be a problem with tracking etc. IIRC many eBay sellers specifically don't ship to Italy (well, for items I was looking at). Certainly don't trust postal service, Royal Mail here handing over to Italian post service.

I would go with a global courier company, e.g. UPS. Then again, I'm not the one wanting to send stuff to Italy.

Hope you get sorted.
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I have posted a few things to Italy and I think I have had about a 50% success rate of things arriving. I have read that their postal service is terrible. This was a while ago and I used Parcelforce with their insurance service (airsure or something?) which made claiming for the lost items quite easy. Although I think they may have stopped offering insurance on delivery to Italy because of the amount of claims.

I haven't sent anything recently, but I know when I looked at it last it didn't really make much difference who you sent it with as the problems occurred after customs with the local services.
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[Efes123]

Are you in a rush? If you can wait a couple of months I can take it over when I go if it's not too far out of the way
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[CaNsA]

When are you going mate?

It needs to get to
8 48010 Fusignano, Ravenna, Italy

if that makes sense to you, because it makes FA sense to me.

[Efes123]

[CaNsA]

Sounds good dude.

Let me know you are heading over as soon as you can please mate, then i can tell the buyer.

Cheers.

[Vincent]

Over 2KG ja?
Interparcel.com are good Cansa........ there was a spate of buyers in Italy claiming their items hadn't arrived and it put a lot of sellers off offering post to there, I've never had a problem and I get RG parts for two blokes over there all the time.

If Interparcel are too much, try Transglobal Express or Parcel2go
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[CaNsA]

o7

[Fisty]

If he has paid via paypal I would refund his money and sell it as a uk only sale.
The Italian postal/FedEx/ups system seems no better than my Hermes here. I sold a zxr400 ohlins shock via recorded delivery so Italy. It "didn't arrive" even though it was meant to be signed for. Paypal robbed the money back off me. It seems that parcels are just handed over in Italy with out being signed for.
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[Shinigami]

noticed pretty much no one on ebay ships to italy, wondered why it was
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