My record was six months for a large package (300/4.5) sent to New
Jersey from Melbourne. Enough time for the insurance to be claimed,
checked, pass the qualifying date and be paid. It finally arrived on
the same day as the refund I sent!
I did not reverse the process on the grounds that it was effectively
lost and cost us both considerable time and irritation. The customer
did well as she ended up with a free lens - I was out of pocket as I
lent her my Tamron 300mm and paid postage. It was then I learned that
packages take 2 days to and from San Diego and Oz and that USPS is
seriously slow with International stuff.
AndrewF
(Still waiting for a SCSI card!)
On 25/04/2004, at 1:24 AM, ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Yes, international packages can drive you nuts. I just received a
> small,
> padded envelope item (a single filter) and a large parcel on the same
> day-
> yesterday. One, the small envelope was mailed from Switzerland on
> April 2nd ( 21 days
> in transit ) the other was mailed from Germany on the 14th- (9 days).
>
> But all this is still better than the luck I've had with mail
> sent/received
> within the U.S. A cross-country ( 3,000 miles) letter to me took
> NINETY DAYS to
> arrive, and no explanation. Another letter I sent, with a payment
> inside,
> approx 800 miles away, never showed. I then re-sent the payment, THAT
> one arrived
> (but still took 9 days), then the first one arrived back to me SIX
> WEEKS
> later stamped "NO Such Address" even though the addres WAS correct,
> written by me
> exactly the same as the one that did arrive there.
>
> Go figure indeed.
> George S.
>
> hiwayman@xxxxxxx writes:
> It all makes you wonder. If Iwert posted the parcel when he said he
> expected
> to (this past Friday), it made it from Belgium to Atlanta in four days,
> because it was in my hands by noon Tuesday. Even if he sent if off a
> day or two
> earlier, that's still borderline remarkable. Of course, a package I
> mailed to
> him a month ago is still God knows where, possibly bobbing about in
> the middle
> of the Atlantic Ocean. Go figure.
>
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