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RichieC Wrote:Eric,
I send parcels to South America quite often via USPS International Priority Mail, and at times it takes as long as EIGHT weeks to reach it's recipient.
:wow Can´t believe it!
The stuff I´ve bought or received as gifts (a big thanks to them, they know
) from american dealers and collectors -always shipped by USPS- doesn´t take more than 2 or 3 weeks...
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send parcel to china fedex is not good way.
use post office, like express mail is batter. in china we named regeidt parcel , of cuase EMS is good batter but expensive.
lost parcel is not happy.
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It was just for the sake of discussion...
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
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Postal services can be very hit and miss... I have had a package from Uruguay to England in under a week and a package from Israel in under 36 hours but then I have had packages from the us taking anything from 3 days to 8 months (shipped the same way). No matter what you do there will always be unknowns and like they say patience is a virtue..... As everything I ever receive is only ever for my own personal collection I don't have to panic if something has arrived by a certain date... I usually start to wonder where my package is if it hasn't landed after 5-6 weeks..... but nearly every time that it's taken that long is because the sender hasn't lived up to their name and hasn't sent it.... like they say patience is a virtue.... and every day is like christmas day for me as long as there's mail being delivered!
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Eric,
Keep bothering the Post Office...I ship many packages overseas and USPS has only lost track of two...with a bit of pestering both eventually turned up (back to me) a few months later...
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Pestered the PO like Doug suggested. Found out that the package got to Argentina in less than a week and has been sitting in customs since then. Contacted the buyer who contacted his customs and he's now got the info to get his package.
His comment to me was 'our customs officials are like a ****ing mafia'.
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Glad there was some progress!
