Best UK to US shipping service?

[tteplitzmd]

UPS is simply using the FEDEX model, with Brokerage Fees, or Clearing Agents, who are young men, in boiler room operations, threatening you with delays if you don't pay up. Yes, Royal Mail and in reverse USPS wins every time.

DHL is more rational but they perversely offer only overnite service from the US to points outside the USA. On line site for DHL is mind numbing however.

[RWS]

. . . . Royal Mail and in reverse USPS wins every time. . . .

Terry, I fear the loss of a more valuable package (a finished suit, say, or a great length of one of the Cloth Club commissions) in the mails and so have been the unwilling hostage of FedEx and its ilk for many a long year. Might you know about the costs and limits of international insurance by the Royal Mail?

[tteplitzmd]

IF you insure, then you are certainly facing customs/duty on the receiving end. I believe one LL member had his SR suit hijacked at Heathrow, and I don't t think it was Royal Mail, so don't put any great hope into FEDEX/UPS being safer.

I think where FEDEX, et al, get you is on the brokerage fees, and misc. fees, and so on.
A netherwold of small time confidence men, middle men preying upon coroporate account holders.