Needed some postal advice from the Americans

[timberpond]

Hi Americans, I need to purchase a sensor for a PCB repair from Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. 

The postal service worked up to about $225 for a $20 sensor. The sensor is only 1/4 of my pinky finger.

The seller did warned me about the S&H is going to be expensive and hoping that I have a local address to ship against. 

 

I believe fellow Americans do post parcel to Thailand from time to time. May I know if you have any cheaper alternative advise I could follow? 

[walt1]

That does not seem right. Go to usps website to check prices, should be much less. Could it be they don't want to deal with the forms needed to ship or are they trying to overcharge?

[timberpond]

23 minutes ago, walt1 said:

That does not seem right. Go to usps website to check prices, should be much less. Could it be they don't want to deal with the forms needed to ship or are they trying to overcharge?

I believe it's the former. They are trying to sell it on their door as they mentioned to send fedex to their door step will be the best. They will get it pack and ready for collection. usps indicated about $40 small parcel mail to thailand 6-10 business days. $225 is a bit steep. 

 

I can't complaint because they are manufacturer selling in the thousands of units and I managed to persuade them to sell me a few for my board repair.  

[bendejo]

I have not had to deal with this myself, but others have told me stories about exorbitant duties and various fees on the Thai side when using private services (DHL,Fedex et al).  Myself, I have only received packages sent USPS to Post Restante, the only fee was the post office storage, I think it was 5 satang per day.

Perhaps another source for the part -- tried eBay? 

 

 

[timberpond]

16 hours ago, bendejo said:

I have not had to deal with this myself, but others have told me stories about exorbitant duties and various fees on the Thai side when using private services (DHL,Fedex et al).  Myself, I have only received packages sent USPS to Post Restante, the only fee was the post office storage, I think it was 5 satang per day.

Perhaps another source for the part -- tried eBay? 

 

 

Yup... trying to get help from a friend in US but still unable to locate him. I read that USPS non commercial shipping is about $40 to Thailand for small packages. I have tried everywhere, ebay, aliexpress, amazon, etc. No luck... have to buy from manufacturer. 

 

https://frederickscompany.com/products/0717-4304-99/

This is the sensor I'm trying to buy. 

[bluebluewater]

Good Gosh  -  have someone stick it into a padded envelope and send it USPS registered mail.  It's not expensive at all.  Sorted.

[timberpond]

9 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

Good Gosh  -  have someone stick it into a padded envelope and send it USPS registered mail.  It's not expensive at all.  Sorted.

That's the intention... have to find a local address for help. 

[edwardflory]

$40 to $60 at the extreme.  Put in in a padded packet, send registered mail..

Use US POSTAL SERVICE

[thaijoe]

I know what ur going through, I moved back to the states, you can use my address if you want,I live in ohio.

email me if you need me to send it to you.. [email protected]

buy it on line, ship it to my address and i'll ship it to you. I know shipping thing is like 2-4 weeks, sometimes. and i have had it in 12 days, but this covid has everything screwed up.  and next month UPS  is raising there prices up by 8% I think. i know its going up and stamps

[timberpond]

53 minutes ago, thaijoe said:

I know what ur going through, I moved back to the states, you can use my address if you want,I live in ohio.

email me if you need me to send it to you.. [email protected]

buy it on line, ship it to my address and i'll ship it to you. I know shipping thing is like 2-4 weeks, sometimes. and i have had it in 12 days, but this covid has everything screwed up.  and next month UPS  is raising there prices up by 8% I think. i know its going up and stamps

Oh.... Thanked god! I will be contacting you shortly for your address.

[Panadadad]

For $225 I would have hand carried it for you yesterday that was half of my airfare lol

[placnx]

On 10/1/2021 at 6:33 PM, bluebluewater said:

Good Gosh  -  have someone stick it into a padded envelope and send it USPS registered mail.  It's not expensive at all.  Sorted.

I just got 4 toothbrushes ($12) via USPS for $25 postage in padded envelope. It took around a week, but was trackable only in the US. Postage was more than I expected.

[johndudorn]

up to 2lb USPS $25 first class

[bluebluewater]

^  those tooth brushes must be pretty special!

[DJ54]

Has mail (credit card) shipped USPS Priority August 8 not received yet.. although others have used and received in 10 days. Sent a replacement DHL good service @$65 USD

[timberpond]

On 10/2/2021 at 6:21 PM, Panadadad said:

For $225 I would have hand carried it for you yesterday that was half of my airfare lol

Missing the chance for me... I would gladly pay you $60 for your trouble... So you in Phuket now?

[timberpond]

12 hours ago, DJ54 said:

Has mail (credit card) shipped USPS Priority August 8 not received yet.. although others have used and received in 10 days. Sent a replacement DHL good service @$65 USD

It's a risk we have to take.

[KhunLA]

Did you search AliExpress, Banggood, Shopee or Lazada for the same item ?

 

Wouldn't be surprised if the US vendor didn't source it from Alibaba ????

[BritManToo]

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Did you search AliExpress, Banggood, Shopee or Lazada for the same item ?

 

Wouldn't be surprised if the US vendor didn't source it from Alibaba ????

http://www.jinzon.com.tw/Fredericks/sens_tilt_0717_4304.tpl.htm

[ross163103]

As others have said, pretty outrageous. A week ago I shipped an 8lb box from the middle of US to Chonburi and it cost around $97 USD...........helping out the USPS with their debt. 

[timberpond]

12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

http://www.jinzon.com.tw/Fredericks/sens_tilt_0717_4304.tpl.htm

Emailed them twice with no reply...

[timberpond]

12 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Did you search AliExpress, Banggood, Shopee or Lazada for the same item ?

 

Wouldn't be surprised if the US vendor didn't source it from Alibaba ????

No luck at all... it's a on board tilt sensor. Only PCB manufacturer will purchase such a thing and usually in huge amount.

[bbko]

Is it the USPS or the company that's bumping up the shipping cost?

[timberpond]

9 minutes ago, ross163103 said:

As others have said, pretty outrageous. A week ago I shipped an 8lb box from the middle of US to Chonburi and it cost around $97 USD...........helping out the USPS with their debt. 

8lbs is about 3.6kg. Not too expensive in my opinion. Used to send so items to Swiss from Thailand cost about 2,200 baht about the same weight via Thaipost.

[timberpond]

3 minutes ago, bbko said:

Is it the USPS or the company that's bumping up the shipping cost?

They do not use USPS because they will have to make a trip to the local post office. 

They only offered UPS or Fedex. Add in their cost of exportation paperwork and stuffs work out to be $225 for a 50g package.

[bbko]

4 minutes ago, timberpond said:

They do not use USPS because they will have to make a trip to the local post office. 

They only offered UPS or Fedex. Add in their cost of exportation paperwork and stuffs work out to be $225 for a 50g package.

Ouch, unless you already paid for the item, maybe give an exact description of the needed item, Lazada, Shoppee and AliExpress aren't the only online places to buy computer parts in Thailand.

[timberpond]

3 minutes ago, bbko said:

Ouch, unless you already paid for the item, maybe give an exact description of the needed item, Lazada, Shoppee and AliExpress aren't the only online places to buy computer parts in Thailand.

https://frederickscompany.com/products/0717-4304-99/

This is the sensor I'm trying to buy. 

 

I usually could find most things in Aliexpress... Even the processor chip ST92F150 series, but the little sensor seems so rare in it's application till the point that I could not find a similar replacement too. Not even different brand.

[bbko]

If still unable to find the part elsewhere, there's always those mail forwarding businesses.