[78-L] Shipping to Singapore and Russia

[Roger Wade]

You are probably correct Malcolm.  My answer was meant to refer only  
to international mail which was the context of the question.  I sure  
wish that international surface mail had not been eliminated because  
it put a big dent in international sales of large lots of 78s.

Roger Wade
Really Old Records


On Jun 1, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:

> 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
>
> *******
>
> 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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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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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
>>>
>>>
>
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