[78-L] USPS Strikes Again!?

[Michael Biel]

The USPS does not process mail through customs, the U.S. Customs Dept
does.  So don't blame the Post Office.  They are two entirely different
organizations.  If you were complaining to them about the time it was
taking for the package to get thru customs, it makes as much sense as
complaining to them that your bus took a long time to go cross-town.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] USPS Strikes Again!?
From: GAVIN WHITELAW <gavw at btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, January 28, 2014 2:54 am
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

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