[78-L] USPS Strikes Again!?

[GAVIN WHITELAW]

Delivery times are cr at p too! I THOUGHT a package of vintage slides would be handier to pick up from New York when I was across from the UK so I had it sent to my hotel (The New Yorker) from Canada on 2nd January. I was across from 9-16 so I thought that would be plenty time. 

Sure enough it arrive in New York on 5th Jan BUT USPS held on to it for nearly 3 WEEKS processing it through customs!!

I have had to make further arrangements to have it forwarded as it arrived at the hotel long after I left! Luckily I knew the engineering manager of the hotel so he has made the arrangements for me.

USPS are perhaps the WORST/SLOWEST/MOST UNHELPFUL mail service I have dealt with!! 

I would do ANYTHING to avoid using them again but for the fact that mail actually leaving the USA seems to get out quickly enough and their priority mail boxes are fairly inexpensive for their weight! 




 
Gavin R Whitelaw 

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________________________________
 From: Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 3:48
Subject: Re: [78-L] USPS Strikes Again!?
 

My P.O. wanted to check the package before it was mailed so they could 
charge appropriately.
If they're opening boxes anywhere else along the line, Jim is right, 
that could be a problem concerning breakage.
Mal

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On 1/27/2014 4:21 PM, Darrell Lehman wrote:
> I thought the receiving P.O. was the one who checked them out.  That's
> what happened to us Mal.
>
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> Take your packages to the PO unclosed. Let 'em look. Then seal 'em.
>> That'll slow things down, you betcha. After you've done that a few times
>> they'll probably leave you alone.
>> Malcolm
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 1/27/2014 3:57 PM, jim brannen wrote:
>>> I went to my local post office today with seven boxes of 78s to mail. Was told by the postal worker that she heard the post office will be begin opening media mail packages to see if it is really is media. If this is true I see a lot of unhappy people receiving broken 78s. I pride myself on my careful packing, but if they start doing this, it will all be for naught.
>>>      Has anyone else in the group heard anything on this?  Should I start thinking about using first class? Having nightmares about broken records in Florida - Jimmyb
>>>

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