[meteorite-list] "L o s t" orders
From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Feb 11 12:09:32 2005 Message-ID: <DIIE.0000001A0000329D_at_paulinet.de> Eric O. wrote: > I just had an $880 piece of esquel reported as not having > arrived. It was also send registered mail. Keeping my fingers > crossed it is held up in customs and not lost. Svend wrote: > from the US failed to reach me in Germany. Mike had written before: > I am assuming that it is German customs ... Whereas a package from Nels Oakes took only 8 days to arrive here at my home, another from Greg arrived here only after an exhausting odyssey of 4 (!) weeks. As Mike was assuming, it was once again the bothersome German customs authorities who had their hands in this ploy: => package opened => the Hupe envelope we are all familiar with :-) opened => packing material opened Of course, everything had been put back where it belonged and given an official green stamp "Opened by ..." About one year ago, another order from Mike Farmer fell into the hands of both the German customs authorities and the German, local mail company, appeared at two of our post offices, disappeared and was gone until it resurfaced in Tucson after about 3 months! Oh well, ... ... ... Interestingly, my packages from Dean Bessey have never been opened or delayed. Maybe mail from Canada is less suspicious to the customs people ... who knows !?!? Bernd Received on Fri 11 Feb 2005 12:09:30 PM PST |
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