Dear Co-Merchant,
Well it's SAD to HEAR that you are GETTING MISSGUIDED by the Postal Offices. The BEST IS TO GO IN THE GPO of your CITY and check that they should be having a Foreign Postal service office as well.
Or you can also speak to the BDO ( Business Develepment Officer ) of the GPO....
Coming to the POint of the EXPORTING GEMS and JEWELRY, INDIAN FOREIGN POSTAL SERVICES ( SPEED POST in the FOREIGN POST DEPARTMENT ) is the ONLY and the BEST WAY TO EXPORT. MAXIMUM EXPORTS FROM INDIA are routed thru this CHANNEL.
Moreover, for Shipping SILVER JEWELRY NO Purity certificate is needed, as in GOLD. The certificate cost is definitelt 200 - 250, for the GOLD PURITY TEST, but then this is VALID for any Number of Jewelry in one Particular INVOICE. Meaning, if you are selling 5 GOLD ITEMS : RINGS, Pendants, Earrings etc...therefore you will make 1 INVOICE to EXPORT, then the charges for thetesting certificate to be produced under the custom clearance, is charged ONLY ONCE Rs.200 - 250.
You can yourself get the Procedures done, to save the additional cost of the AGENT, to begin with, This should take you 1 - 2 hours depending upon the Infrastructuire of the GPO > FOREIGN POSTAL SERVICES OFFICE, but once you are accustomed, then it shall ONLY TAKE you around 30 MIN. as it takes US / AGENT. Agenst anyways TAKE Rs.400 - 500 here in JAIPUR.
Hope that we have contributed a bit. Do, visit the Offices in this WAY and you shall soon be confortable shipping INTERNATIONAL.
Do revert incase of any further assistances..
The CYBERWIZ
TARUN KHANDELWAL
ANMOL KREATIONS
ANMOL SPARKYS