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[ikel89]

This posts is to help with international shipping in general, useful for but not limited to secret santa exhanges. If you have questions about secret santa gift exchange specifically, try our FAQThe wisdom of this post is built on communal experience, and I encourage you to keep on contributing. I will keep the main body of this post updated as you

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[rinkafushi]

Shipping to doitsu:

- Don't use EMS. They don't exist here and their work is handled by DHL who hate this job and hate you. I spent a month hunting down a package from Japan once between customs, EMS and the DHL warehouse in the sketchy outskirts of town, while the average time for jp post to here is a week. So, don't do it. UPS should be fine, though I've never tried it myself (I only got visa delivered by them). In general, German post (Deutsche Post/DHL) is quite reliable!

- Always include a customs slip on the package that details what's inside and how much it's worth. If you do that, chances that customs will snatch it are close to zero :)

- That's. Basically it...?

Shipping from doitsu :

- You only get tracking number (and insurance) for Paket, sadly, which is quite expensive. I've only ever sent kay stuff to Russia as Päckchen, which has no tracking ID and no insurance but comes under 10 Euro. It always arrived iirc! One friendly clerk once recommended me to use Internationales Einschreiben instead which is insured and traceable and comes at about 20€ I think.

[ikel89]

sankyou for sharing the fruits of your labour! updated the list with your hard-won adovaisu :D

[rinkafushi]

yw @ your response

uuuuuugh @ that gif

[rinkafushi]

Oh btw Päckchen goes up to 2kg, after that you always have to ship as the more expensive Paket (which should be around 30-ish euros when going outside EU or something).