Mailing a LapTop

kellyjfisch

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I need to mail a lap top to Puerto Plata express delivery FedEx. Does anyone know how much this will cost and if it is safe?? Should I get insurance on the package? Is there a cheaper way to send it express?
 

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I need to mail a lap top to Puerto Plata express delivery FedEx. Does anyone know how much this will cost and if it is safe?? Should I get insurance on the package? Is there a cheaper way to send it express?
I would guess $100 US or more and I would insure it if I were you.
 

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I WOULD NEVER DO THIS NO MATTER WHAT!!!
Why would you say something so emphatically, HB??

Because you will pay tens of thousands in aduana fees.

Example: A client mailed me FEDEX, some cigars rings and like an idiot put down the replacement cost as the value. End result RD$24000 in taxes....

Something like a laptop has to be hand carried.

Do anything else at your own risk!!

HB
 

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This may sound naive but can you please explain aduana fees? Do I have to put the cost or value of the lap top? It is an old, used lap top and not worth very much money at all. I don't really have a choice and must send it as I will not be returning to the DR until December. What is the best way to go about this? I have never sent anything to the DR before so I am unaware of the restrictions, costs, fees, customs, etc.
 

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Use EPS-INT.com - Cheaper

I need to mail a lap top to Puerto Plata express delivery FedEx. Does anyone know how much this will cost and if it is safe?? Should I get insurance on the package? Is there a cheaper way to send it express?


Hello,

I wouldn't use FexEx to send items to the DR. Very expensive.

Have your friend open an account with EPS-INT.com, then send your package to Miami, and they'll send it to Puerto Plata.

I think it's only $5.00 a lb to send whereas with FexEx I've paid $100 for something well under a pound.

Cheers.
 

kellyjfisch

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Another question. I think my best bet is to use USPS (unites states postal service). However, I know with FedEx you can have it just sent to a FedEx location in Puerto Plata for pickup. Is this possible with USPS? or do I need a specific address?

Thanks for everyone's helpful replies!
 

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Kelly: It is not what YOU say it is worth, it is what the Customs people THINK it is worth.
Since laptops are known items the customs duties would be rather steep. Get someone to hand carry it down here. DO NOT use USPS....please, just do not send it...

HB
 

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Another question. I think my best bet is to use USPS (unites states postal service). However, I know with FedEx you can have it just sent to a FedEx location in Puerto Plata for pickup. Is this possible with USPS? or do I need a specific address?

i don't mean to sound pessimistic but there is no such thing as "specific address" in puerto plata... even people who actually live here seem to have no idea as far as the street name or number, "opposite this and that" or "close to this and that" seems to be as much as you get. sorry.

i totally agree with HB - do not use post/fedex/ups, it is best if you can find a good hearted person who will take with them to POP. i believe someone once posted a story about taxes dominican customs put on exactly the same computers that arrived at different times - taxes varied so tremendously you knew they were set not but rules but by whatever a custom officer felt like on any given day.
 

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thank you all for replying and alerting me to this. I just don't know what to do. I don't know if I will be able to find someone to carry it down there for me and I need to get it there asap as I will not be returning until December. Any suggestions on how I can find someone? I am really at a loss as to how to get this lap top down there as it is for a good cause.
 

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thank you all for replying and alerting me to this. I just don't know what to do. I don't know if I will be able to find someone to carry it down there for me and I need to get it there asap as I will not be returning until December. Any suggestions on how I can find someone? I am really at a loss as to how to get this lap top down there as it is for a good cause.
Perhaps if you tell us about the good cause, somebody might volunteer to transport it for you.
 

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My friend is actually a girl from California who got her lap top stolen so I offered to send her an old one.
 
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I am trying to get it to a friend who is volunteering at a school in Puerto Plata.
Volunteering for what, if you don't mind me asking.
Could you be a bit more elaborate?
If you would like someone to offer to help, you would need to motivate them with a good cause.
 

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She is volunteering at a Haitian immigrant school in a barrio/campo right outside of Puerto Plata. I am not sure of exact details. But from what I know it is not a public or registered school but a school that volunteers are setting up for children of sugar cane workers to get an education.
 

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either someone's good heart or this....

ok, so the deal is that anything (or at least anything electronic) above $200 usd gets charged 16% of tax. that is for new things WITH INVOICE. and in theory. as for used things without invoice the tax will depend on customs current mood. they may judge your laptop worth 1000 dollars and charge tax accordingly.
if you do not find anyone willing to take computer to POP in their luggage what you can do is have an invoice produced stating the value of a laptop (below 200 dollars of course, whatever its real value is). think if you have a friend running some sort of business and capable of producing invoice. this may - or may not work.
for our shipments we always use EPS but i guess you could use any other company - providing you will have an invoice. as an address use school, lawyers office, anything but girl's address - locations of apartments are sometimes hard to determine, as i said before.
 

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I need to get a laptop down here too. In typical fashion my roof sprung a leak in the middle of a huge rain torrment, only my room too, I look on the floor and the laptop was swimming. So time for a new one!

dv8- When you say EPS and that you use them do you mean that you use them to ship electronics (laptops)?

How likely is it that aduana will find my laptop if I ship it EPS?

Does anybody have any tips or expierence besides dv8's invoice tip?


Thank you all.
 

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