[meteorite-list] International shipping isssues

From: Dave Freeman mjwy <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Apr 2 00:15:55 2006
Message-ID: <442DE72A.2070402_at_fascination.com>

Dear List members;
I don't know if there are other list members who work at the postal
system but my experience after 7 months is (you may quote me) we are
all very lucky the mail gets delivered at all on some days. Never put
anything in an envelope that is thicker than three sheets of paper,
especially pennies, and suckers...they will plug up a million dollar bar
code reader and take an hour to get it out sometimes. What is left
sometimes is smaller than stamps, no addresses as everything got
shreaded at 20 miles an hour.

I never ship without insurance and delivery confirmation. Priority flat
rate boxes with lots of packing are my best and favorite way to go.
Bubble pack envelopes work but are very easily thrown 30 feet to the
hamper as are boxes but...the bubble envelopes get crushed with my boxes
of 20 pound rocks sitting on top of them.
Post offices usually give free tours by making a phone call. Take the
time to ask your regional post office for a tour of the sorting area and
fancy sorting machines.............and then reevaluate your packaging
and shipping methods.
3 lost out of 1,150,
Dave F.

Impactika_at_aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 3/30/2006 10:10:15 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
>raremeteorites_at_comcast.net writes:
>Dear List,
>
>I was wondering if anybody else is having problems with shipping to other
>countries, specifically Germany? It seems that about every six months I go
>through a cycle were things are seriously delayed or in rare cases lost when
>using USPS Airmail to Germany. I have made hundreds of international
>shipments and have only had one other incident with another country outside
>of Germany and this was only a delay. I always ship within 24 hours of
>payment and to have something take over 30 days is unacceptable. Can anybody
>tell me how the German postal systems works and why it is so inconsistent?
>
>I have had 14 incidences with shipments to Germany the last two years:
>
>10-with month or better delays
>2- lost for over six months and returned to me even though the address' were
>correct
>1-opened with no item inside (100mgs of NWA032 fragments missing).
>1-Never recovered
>
>I would like to give German collectors some reasonable explanation to why
>some of their packages are delayed and others are not so any information
>would be useful.
>
>Thank You and Take Care,
>
>Adam
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Hello Adam, and members,
>
>I don't handle nearly as many sales as you do, I am sure!!! ;-)
>
>I have had very few problems, but more problems within the US than
>internationally. One Priority Mail package to Peru Indiana, went to Lima, Peru! and
>came right back, in perfect shape. Another one sent to Texas, got there flat as
>a pancake with tire tracks across it!
>Outside the States, I use almost exclusively Global Priority Mail, and I
>have had no problem (except for one package addressed to Austria, it did get
>there after a long detour thru Australia).
>So Far!!!
>
>Anybody else?
>
>Anne M. Black
>www.IMPACTIKA.com
>IMPACTIKA_at_aol.com
>President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
>www.IMCA.cc
>
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