Don't use Ebay's Global Sipping Program to ship model airplane engines. Caveat Emptor!

Good idea, that is the way to ship them.

Man, I wish I would have contacted the seller before they used global shipping.

It was a beautiful engine!

Some locally (England) made (reproduction) Mills 1.3cc diesel.

Ugh!!!

I thought there had been a previous discussion or thread on this very problem. I know it really has to suck to “lose” a engine in this manor. Somebody somewhere must have a nice collection of ill gotten model engines, or is getting rich reselling them and NOT using their employers method to ship them.
I wonder if there is a way to find out the exact disposition of these “non shippable” items.  
Sounds like a good investigative news story for 20/20, Dateline or even Chris Hansen!!
“The Mystery behind the Disapearing Diesels and No Show Nitro’s”

Maybe that Idiot at Pitney Bowes could tell you, just to clear is name.

These people hire from the same pool of applicants as TSA.

"For international shipping I bag in plastic, tied shut, declared as "hobby parts" or "machine parts" or similar. There is some effort in shipping international, but it really is easy."

Just declare them as sex toys.

OOOHHHNNNooooo, Broom Hilda will take it out to play!!!

I have also lost a HP 40 engine, paid on ebay, sent from England by global shipping to me in Bulgaria, in 2017. As far as I understood, here is what happened. Engine delivered finally to UPS carrier. Arrived at an UPS office in my town, stayed there for two weeks, then returned for "incomplete address". Finally arrived at an UPS store in Duesseldorf, Germany and remained there not known how long. According to data from UPS series of track numbers info. No money back from ebay or global shipping! Package never got  back to seller in England either.  
This "incomplete adress" is the one I gave  to ebay and used many times quite OK. I have included in this address field my phone number too. But someoone at ebay has removed the phone number from my address, possibly for security reasons.  Otherwise the UPS staff might have contacted me while the package was still in my town.  
Else, I made an effort to read the Gobal shipping rules/conditions. As far as I understood, in case package not delivered, it cannot get back to seller. Clearly stated. I.e. package gets  lost forever.
So for all my later on  purchases at ebay, I  always make sure not shipped by global shipping. This is hard to achieve but not impossible to ship another way.  
I hope this may help to exclude global shipping as an option at ebay at all.