I bought this ebay item, and it was shipped from USA to Australia via GSP:
HP AGILENT KEYSIGHT 0-20V/0-2A DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT DC SOURCE MODEL 66312A
ORDER DATE Feb 5, 2020
ORDER NUMBER 09-04504-62239
SOLD BY titansales123 (1 item)
ORDER TOTAL US $167.64
HP AGILENT KEYSIGHT 0-20V/0-2A DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT DC SOURCE MODEL 66312A
( 402058101184 )
Estimated delivery Tue, Feb 18 - Mon, Feb 24
ITEM PRICE: US $21.50
Shiping via GSP, direct to Sydney Australia.
My shipping options were: $73.80 to my reshipper in CA (plus further USA to Aus charges)
OR $126.73 direct to Australia via GSP:
Domestic leg $65.45
International leg $61.28
Import charges $19.41
Total $167.64
I chose GSP.
Payments shown in my bank account for this purchase:
08/02/2020 Visa Purchase 05Feb Paypal *Globalship E 402935773 Bills & Payments Au $125.89
08/02/2020 Visa Purchase 05Feb Paypal *Titansalesc 402935773 Retail & Personal Au $135.66
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It arrived here. I could see from the box exterior it had a rough time.
Took photos during unpacking.
Found inadequate packing, plus severely rough handling.
The instrument has been completely, unrepairably smashed.
The instrument weighs around 9.2Kg. Quite heavy.
Box has very little clearance (1cm intact?) at front and rear of the heavy instrument.
It had ONE layer of bubble wrap, plus some styro peanuts on top.
Thus virtually no effective padding between the instrument front and rear faces and the box.
This was unfortunately naive of whoever packed it. Boxes should never be dropped in shipping,
but it does happen.
The box was shipped from the seller to my Australian address (via ebay's Global Shipping
Program) so seller knew it was being shipped internationally.
The box was obviously dropped heavily on front and rear corners, at least twice in shipping.
Result: plastic front and rear moldings of the instrument violently impacted the box interior
at an oblique angle, smashing both into multiple pieces.
There are MANY small plastic fragments in the box.
But the box also came untaped on one edge, so many other fragments have probably fallen out.
"GSP" = Global Smashing Program.
