Shipping to the USA via FEDEX and they want WHAT?

I didn't know the Americans had the power to fine and jail someone in Scotland for illegally trying to export two games consoles.

 

They jailed 3 bank employees from the UK for allegedly breaking banking / financing laws, which incidentally only occurred because the British legal system refused to do so, so personally I wouldn't put it past them.

 

LOL !

 

I selected 7 as the Sony manual stated 'this device complies with FFC regulations Part 15' - that was enough for me. I almost fell asleep trying to figure out why they would even give a shit!

 

Well, I send packages with the Danish post service, and there I don´t need to do all that shit, but I do send with a recommendation, so I have at least some kind of insurance that it will arrive. But some weeks ago, the Danish post service was FUCKING slow, and the two parcels I sent did first arrive over THREE weeks I have sent them, and normally it takes one week to get to where I am sending packages. But at the same time, the fuckedup Danish government went into overdrive with the Danish post service, and well what do you know. they "magically" arrived to the receiver of the two packages I sent.

 

You were lucky (as per usual) parris

...When I sent a DDH to to the USA, I had shitloads of forms, not just FCC, on one of the forms I had to declare that the item had NO Korean produced RAM in it, ffs, yet again false declaration would of imposed a hefty fine/imprisonment!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Needless to say I won't EVER ship anything abroad that weighs more than 2kg. (a shame really)

 

What ***king shit.

I seriously think the US government goes out of it's way some times to be a douche yet fail at regulating what they try to impose.

$5 nobody ever reads that form again after the delivery guy picks up your packages next time.

 

I'm curious what the trigger is for the courier jobsworth to decide that a fistfull 'o forms are suddenly required? Weight/declared value/periodic wobble in the planetary orbit?

 

Ah well thats easy (he says with hindsight)...Just mention the words "P.C/computer or electrical gizmo of any kind" and it automatically sends alarm bells ringing, well it certainly does if you use parcel(not?)2go as the middle men for fedex etc.

 

Funny you should mention that as when I spoke to FEDEX (and I quote)

1) "If you had booked it through us we'd have immediately mentioned the FCC form as it is company policy"

2) "If you open an account with FEDEX there would have been less hassle rather than going through a middleman (Parcel2go)

my response

"Oh , right and would you guarantee to actually be any cheaper than having booked through Parcel2go?"

3) "er,no!"

7 pages of paperwork seems excessive, but actually stating whether Korean chips were inside the unit is lunacy! h:

 

I'd go for #7.

It looks like the biggest issue is for items like cordless phones or wireless modems, things whose function depends on them emitting a radio frequency to be picked up by another object. I guess that leads to problems with reception for neighbors.

Part 15 of the of the FCC rules has the "unintended radiators" section and goes on to say that just about everything emits some kind of frequency, but unless it's part of the item's function then it's an exception (my assumption). I think they use a computer as a general example of something that gives off a frequency but it's inconsequential so you don't have to worry about it.

In reality you can probably check #2 just as well and get away with it. I did a search for FedEx and FCC form and found two posts by people saying their item had been held in customs...and one post was from 2004...heh. If people were getting their items held up then I'm sure the internet would be filled with posts from people who are in the same position you are. I went about 3-4 pages deep in a Google search.

I had the same issue myself shipping from Japan to the US via FedEx. The guy refused to take the package unless I checked one of the boxes. I debated with him for a minute or two and it quickly became obvious that he wasn't going to take the package without it. In the end I can't remember which box I checked, but it got through OK.

 

So Euro electronics aren't up to standard for US use, just like the cars eh? I think someone should come down from their high horse, especially considering how the EU has very stringent regulations when it comes to safety - and the political embargo thing is just not mine or the recipient's concern, so I don't see why I d give a shit if the US wants to sanction country X