The policy simply stated:
The flat rate charge for shipping, handling, and insurance will be $61.00 for shipment by UPS or FedEx
(selected by SPI Supplies) to all destinations in Iceland, irrespective of the shipment's weight or commercial
value. But excluded would be any shipment that contains any product(s) designated as being Dangerous Goods.
This would also mean that we can not ship under this flat rate program any product identified as being
.
This means that an order that consists of some
tweezers,
TEM grids,
Parafilm®,
and some embedding molds, could ship under the flat rate program from SPI Supplies in the USA to any business address
in Iceland (see important exception below). But if your order contains as much as a single dangerous goods
item (for example, an SPI Easy Duster™), then it could not be shipped under this program and would
probably have to go via air freight.
Note that we can not ship under this program to addresses in Iceland any dangerous goods products designated
as being
.
And of course, such shipments would be subject to the special "cold ship" charges should the shipment include
a product that is to be shipped refrigerated.
Exceptions:
Keep in mind the following exceptions to the above policy statement:
- Shipments containing dangerous goods that are not described as
are not covered by this program.
- Addresses not considered to be bona fide business addresses by the carrier (e. g. FedEx or UPS) are
subject to a residential address fee.
- The final arbiter as to whether an address is or is not a residential address is the carrier, that is, UPS
or FedEx. Generally speaking, if one has sleeping accommodations at the address, or if the property is not
zoned for commercial use, the carrier designates such an address as a "residential" address.
- This program does not apply to orders being paid for via Letter of Credit (L/C) because one can not make
shipments using the courier services when an L/C has to be executed.
The benefit to the customer:
Customers of SPI Supplies in Iceland are able to estimate almost to the penny the actual prepayment amount
that will have to be paid even if ordering from Iceland to the USA. There is no need to waste time getting
a "quote" since all of the information necessary to calculate a total CIF amount will be available to the
customer at the time the order is placed. So just decide what you want to order, the fob prices are on the
website, add $61.00 and that is the total price to you (except of course for any customs duties, VAT, and any
other local taxes, if applicable, that are paid on the buyer's end. Remember that this will "work" only if
there are no Dangerous Goods on the order. Some of our customers in Iceland have long requested a flat rate
program like this, and we offer it now in response to such customer requests. Certainly this is saving
customers in Iceland considerable money since they can buy direct. Let us know how the SPI Supplies flat
rate program works for you. Tell us how we can improve on this innovative program for shipments to Iceland.
Iceland customers always have a friend in the USA when they contact SPI Supplies!
Just remember that how ever you wish to deal with SPI Supplies will be just fine with us.
We know we are here to serve the needs of our customers in Iceland, not
the other way around! If you wish to order via our long time and excellent distributor, that is just fine
and if you wish to order directly from SPI Supplies, that is just as fine with us as well. We also know you
have yet other choices and we want to do everything possible to make sure yours is to depend on SPI Supplies
products, however you might be making the actual purchase!
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