Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Major encoder trouble, need advice.

Jon, Phil ...

Most of the thefts are done by post office personnel in Spain.
(Likewise shipping companies).
Its one of the losses we (I) get living in a third world country.

Would never happen in Finland. (Never did in containerloads of stuff
over 7 years, maybe 1000 shipments).
Never happens when I send something to the us, .au, .fi .se or some
other decent place.

Apparently, they get internally called on and prosecuted for only the
insured ones, as the tracking only works for those ones.
Out of last 15 packets from abroad, 5-7 were insured. 0 problems.
10 were not. 3-4 had problems, 1-2 lost.
typical.

S**t happens.
Gotta insure everything expensive in / to Spain.

China is a good place to buy from, and not bad to sell to. By my
experience, relatively extensive.
I pay for my stuff in advance and allow for some loss. don´t worry about
it too much.


Jon Elson wrote:

>
> Yahoo wrote:
> > An interesting correlation. It begs the question: Why would a thief care
> > whether a package was insured or not?
> I have never had a package go lost in the US. Only when sent to other
> countries.
> In the US, each mail handler has to sign for every insured package. So,
> when anything goes missing,
> his signature is the last one on record. I assume foreign postal
> services do the same.
> > Perhaps the USPS provides extra
> > security for insured packages, leaving the uninsured ones as informal
> > compensation for its thieving employees. It certainly would be
> consistent
> > with the pecuniary motive. If this is the case then it should be
> sufficient
> > to insure packages for a small percentage of their actual value,
> maybe 10%,
> > since the risk of loss apparently has more to do with extortion than
> > accident, and they have no way to know the actual value of any
> particular
> > package. Security at a discount.
> >
> >
> I think the insured value is right on the insurance sticker, but I could
> be wrong.
>
> Jon
>
>