Best Way to Ship A Camera USA to Spain ?

Friend wants to send me a small Point & shoot camera from USA to Spain. Last time this friend sent me a slightly larger DSLR Camera body, we had a nightmare with UPS: costing $300.00 in all kinds of taxes and this and that. Plus, even after we paid, 2 weeks of screw ups on the part of UPS. Any ideas?

Marty

Normal US Postal service is just as good and will come with the normal post, no couriers! I have given up using coureirs on overseas items as they will always hold back duty/ tax and charges, even when none is payable!! Can they not send it as a gift to the UK frst and then someone send it to you in Spain? 

Mark

Yes, I could have them send it to france or some other place. But I can't get any real information anywhere on the web as to how this really works? Very sad state of affairs that something so important has no real information posted anywhere. Official postings are written in a useless language, advice forums are outdated or full of unreliable misinformation. At first I thought, just send it United States Postal and say it's a gift and state the value as very low. If it's a used camera and was pretty cheap to begin with ($200.00) say its' value is $20.00 AND it's a gift. But if you say it's a camera , does that already raise eyebrows? "Wait a minute: a camera? Who sends a camera as a gift? Used camera? We'll see about that."  Better to say it's a toy. But then you have lied on the form - etc: subject to SWAT teams and years of prison. Very sad state of affairs.