Update
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Times & Bureaucracies of container arrival and
release in Israel:
1 - Date Of Arrival, Port Ashdod means anytime within that date (24
hours) the ship will dock at Ashdod port.
"Arrival
at Port Ashdod" sometimes means that it lands at Port Chaifa, and is then
transported to Port Ashdod by frieght train.
2 - Then container has to be unloaded, (anywhere
from 5 hours to 2 days).
3 - If ship lands at Port Chaifa, container gets loaded onto freight train, (they
usually wait till they fill up train, then it leaves for Port Ashdod - 4 hours to
2 days).
4 - Arrival in Port Ashdod, shipped to delegated
warehouse, (a few hours) where it is then entered into computer, and customs
broker can then start 'working' on it.
5 - Customes broker sends all documents to
meches, and waits for an answer as to how meches would like to
proceed. Meches' choices:
a - free it immediately,
b - spot check it, (they remove between 100-200
boxes, check most of them - if all OK, return them to the container & 'free' it)
c - check most of the boxes
d - x-ray container
Any of the above can take between 1 to 5 business
days to release the container.
6 - Container is released, transport to
Yerushalayim is sought (depending on time of day of release, availability of
truck, etc. (6 to 8 hours)
Receivers should call our hotline @ 054-686-8705 on October 23rd after 5:00 PM for instructions
It is the responsibility
of the RECEIVER to find out the pick-up date and time.
| As of: | Information |
| To avoid local residents complaining, and to prevent us paying a hefty municipal fine for each box left on location, a gemach will pick up all boxes left over, at 9:30 PM, and it's theirs to keep. | |
| Updates regarding container that left New York on Sunday, September 11th (Shipment#73): | |
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Dear
Chaverim, we have in our data base a little over 1260 email addresses of
SENDERS, but less than 300 RECEIVERS (and quite a number of these are
inaccurate). PLEASE, get ahold of your RECEIVERS’ email addresses so we
can inform them of incoming containers. |
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Please note: After a few unfortunate instances with a “driver” named Yehuda – including involving the police – we can no longer allow him to have anything to do with box delivery. This is to protect you, our customers. If your RECEIVER has their boxes delivered, please inform them of this update. A similar incident happened a couple of years ago with a different driver, and we had to make a rule that if any RECEIVER uses him, they will no longer be able to use our services. I'm sorry, but to protect our customers, we must implement that rule again. |
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| Location | Alleyway behind Rechov Sorotzkin 7 |
| Drivers may call
054-686-8705
for directions after 12:00 PM on Pick-Up day. (but PLEASE don't call to ask "how many boxes", "what color are my boxes" etc, check that out with your SENDER) |
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Unfortunately, we were caught with illegal
contents in a few boxes. The nezek right now stands at a little
over of $1,300.00. We were lucky to have a good customs broker, who brokered
a deal with the people in meches. (What saved us was showing
them the contract everyone has to sign). Instead of confiscating the
entire container and filing criminal charges against me, the seven boxes
were removed and we paid 'only' the charge of destroying the contents,
and their 'checking' costs, in addition to their administrative fees.
Add to this the port fees at $120/day, and putting us on their
'to-be-checked' list! How
does anyone have the chutzpa to endanger an entire lift? What
heter does he have? As of this writing, (with our Rav's blessing) they are being sued in small claims court. The situation could've spiralled to about $ 30,000.00!!! Plus the cost of a criminal lawyer. We accepted a brokered p'shara of $2,500. Would you like to pay that amount? Costumer # 1071 had six boxes of illegal items (shoes, slippers), and costumer #1020 one box (meds). New member of the club: Costumer # 1074, 2 boxes (shoes, food, cell phone, meds, dentistry items, candies). Then again 1 box (mobile phones, chametz, meds,etc)! |
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New New
WhatsApp Service
New
New To improve our service, we are starting a WhatsApp broadcast system to keep you informed of container drop-offs and/or pick-ups. To
join: 1 - Add
Minchas Shlomo to your contact list
3 – Send us a WhatsApp message stating that you wish to
join and your customer number (if you know it). Specify if you are
PLEASE, DO NOT use
this WhatsApp to contact us, ever. Anyone who does will be
removed from our broadcast list and blocked.
We
hope to better serve you with this new service. |
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Estimated Future Container Drop-off dates (Boro Park) Sunday:
October 30, January 1. Please check back. Always subject to change. ALWAYS recheck 1-2 weeks before date. |
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