shipping USA to Belarus
 

Since Belarus is still in the orbit of Russia, I thought it fair to post my query here.

I am trying to get a Tiffany lamp to Belarus. Unfortunately, the primary one of interest fits in an oversize box and the US Post Office wants at least $300 to ship it. That was just an estimate because UPS told me they would charge $1.1K which is closer to what the USPS web gave me.

Here is the lamp as I bought through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Dragonf...llow+dragonfly

I sent it back after all these shipping problems. However, even when I find a Tiffany lamp that might work from Amazon in the UK and Germany (also France, Italy and Canada), none of them ship to Belarus.

I have done general Google searches but nothing turns up. Is there a web in Russian that could help me out?

You might want to try http://meest.us/ Normally, USPS is the cheapest way to go.

Thanks for the tip. If it doesn't help solve this problem, it should be useful in the future.

it looks to me like the usps wants 60.95 to ship a box that will carry half your lamp. 2 such boxes will cost 121.80. looks like $100 ins comes with each box. the whole lamp fits in 2 boxes.

http://ircalc.usps.com/MailServices....&p=0&o=1&mt=11

n.b.i found an old belarussian phone ring, and use it on my phone.

If you can find a UK based retailer then I have a solution for you.

A company called Alfaparcel are used by quite a few Russians - or Russian based expats as well - to receive parcels for them from UK retailers and then forward them on to Russia / Ukraine / Belarus.

They are based in the UK and ship goods for people to ex-USSR countries as many companies won't ship direct to Russia as you've found out.

Either get them to buy it and ship it for you:-
http://alfaparcel.com/way-to-pay

or, you buy it and just give their address in the UK as the delivery address:-
http://alfaparcel.com/uk-address

This is a list of their shipping charges:-

http://alfaparcel.com/dostavka


The website is in Russian, but you can translate it using Google or Chrome. Being in the UK you can contact them in English via telephone/email as well.

Useful info, thanks.

I am going to take a run at using 2 packages and if that fails then revisit these other suggestions.

No matter how you choose to do it, shipping from the U.S. to Europe is going to be expensive. That being said, you have a PM.

I took another Tiffany Lamp to a professional shipping place this morning and was told that FedEx would charge over $800 with the lamp in one or two boxes.

So it seems I cannot ship a glass Tiffany lamp from the USA. I will take a closer look at Alfaparcel after I get past some routine surgery today.

If I really needed to get the lamp and it cost $800 - I would rather make a MR out of it :-)

I just want to report that I went with Meest and all went well. It took a little longer than I hoped but I think the American and Russian holidays got in the way.