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There are some deliveries where USPS does "last mile" for other carriers. If shipping something worth $10,000 the insurance for the package should be $10,000.
by davidf18 10y ago
There are some deliveries where USPS does "last mile" for other carriers.
If shipping something worth $10,000 the insurance for the package should be $10,000. Apparently the sender insured it for less than the value which is the fault of the sender, not the receiver.
Not certain how the receiver would be liable for the sender not insuring the package properly.
- germanier 10y agoUnder German law (which seems to be applicable here unless they explicitly opted for something else) the liability shifts to the receiver as soon as it is handed over to the shipping company. The idea is that the receiver could have picked it up themselves but chose delivery instead. It's a pretty old law that a usual person doesn't notice in their life because there are special rules to make everything right when a company ships to a consumer. Of course one also would need to check if they had any agreement on which shipping service or insurance to choose which was violated or if there is any applicable kind of negligence involved.