Yk L.
$6000 worth of shipment lost and $1500 shipping fee burnt
We are a small business based in Singapore and had just completed a crowdfunding campaign. We decided to use Easyship for around 60 of our shipments to the U.S. and EU because of its slighty lower price (by about 10~20%) but it turned out to be a great mistake. The packages were shipped from late Feb throughout late March, and as of today (May 25th) 24 of the shipments have not arrived!: - some shipments to the EU were suddenly declared "returned" or "destroyed", with ZERO prior notification to both our customers (i.e. the recipient) or us (sender). We had expected that at least the sender/recipient would be notified via a note/email/call before a shipment be returned or destroyed - we received none. By the time we request for an update, Easyship just replied that the packages have "returned to sender" statuses BUT since the services that we chose did not include insurance, they may be destroyed at the destination countries and not be returned at all. - some shipments to the U.S. turned out to be even more ridiculous and frustrating. Our customers receive several pieces of shipping label and customs documents (that we had attached to the packages) in their mailboxes with no package! Easyship just said "please contact USPS as the packages are already handed over to them", essentially telling us "you are on your own - good luck! Bye!". USPS's reply? - "please contact the sender". After more complaints, an Easyship executive finally replied with the most frustrating and useless feedback - too bad, this is the risk senders have to take since sender did not buy insurance. There's no way we can help other than recommend that you buy insurance next time! Each of our shipment costs $250 and we paid an average of $50 for each of the shipments. Now we have 24 shipments still undelivered after 3 months - a total of $7500 - ALL GONE! In short: - if you use Easyship, you're on your own once the money is paid. It's like gambling with your money - if you're not lucky, there's nothing you could do to prevent your goods and shipping fee to just disappear. - or you could "buy insurance". But that would wipe out the "slightly cheaper" advantage of using Easyship in the first place. We have been using end shippers (DHL/TNT/FEDEX/UPS..etc) for more than 8 years without a single insurance and none were lost.




