[AusNOG] Shipping equipment to the US - Courier Recommendations

[John Edwards]

Some tips for international transport of kit to USA:

   - The main reason you're doing this at all is because the local sales
   rep for your vendor doesn't get a commission if they sell directly into
   someone else's territory, maybe figure out who the "someone else" is
   - Customs helps American vendors keep counterfeit goods out of the
   country, which means importing American vendors to USA automatically looks
   suss
   - Global Insurance policies for Australian companies sometimes have a
   carve-out in the fine print that doesn't cover you for the USA (no really,
   go and read your policy!)
   - Shipping routers costs more than return plane tickets for a person,
   but if you try and import routers as luggage you will learn the hard way
   that you should have paid for shipping
   - Fedex have their own bonded warehouse facilities which makes it harder
   for them to lose things in transit if they get complicated with customs
   - If you are taking kit for demo purposes and plan to bring it back with
   you, it may simplify travel to google what a Carnet is

John

On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 09:03, Darren Moss <Darren.Moss at cloud365.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi All,
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> We’re shipping a pallet of equipment from Sydney to the US, mainly servers
> and switches to East and Central locations.
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> We’ve used different couriers in the past with OK results.
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> I’m interested in hearing which shipping companies people are using.
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> Many thanks
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> Darren.
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