[78-L] Shipping to Singapore and Russia

[Malcolm Rockwell]

I don't think this is quite so, but I could be wrong. I believe Media 
mail from the US west coast to Hawaii still comes by ship.
FYI, Priority mail and 1st Class letters come by air and take from 3 to 
5 days to get here, but Media and low end posts, such as junk mail, come 
by ship. Otherwise how could they continue to justify Media taking 6 to 
8 weeks to get here? What a waste of warehouse space (which I think is 
where Media mail goes until the PO deems is long enough for people to 
pay the lower rates).
Malcolm

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On 6/1/2010 3:30 AM, Roger Wade wrote:
> The USPS discontinued surface mail a few years ago.  Everything is
> airmail now.
>
>
> Roger Wade
> Really Old Records
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>
> http://www.amazon.com/shops/reallyoldrecords
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>
> On May 30, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>
>    
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>      
>>> Don't use snail mail. I sent a CD to someone in Hong Kong and it
>>> took 8
>>> weeks to get there.
>>>
>>>        
>> Understand that there exist two different methods per trans-
>> Atlantic postal
>> mail! It can
>> travel by boat (even yet?!) or by air. Since you probably didn't
>> specifically specify
>> "air mail," the envelope/parcel probably crossed the ocean in a
>> "cargo hold"
>> of a
>> transatlantic steamer (VERY slowly!). However, it could have been
>> worse...it
>> might
>> have travelled in a boat "powered" by impressed-servitude oarsmen...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
>>