[meteorite-list] I will no longer ship to Italy using paypal

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:59:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <687615.47290.qm_at_web33103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Francesco,
I am just tired of losing my money. I work hard to
acquire my meteorites, and doing hundreds of ebay
auctions a month is a full-time job. To see 40 or 50%
of items I send to Italy continually vanish is just no
longer acceptable. I do not know or care where the
problem it, but it is clearly on the Italian side. I
am not the only one with the problem, it has been
ongoing for years. I am simply no longer willing to
throw my meteorites and money away by risking shipment
to Italy if the meteorites are paid for via paypal.
Michael Farmer



--- Moser Francesco <cojack at tiscali.it> wrote:

> Hi All!
> As you know I'm Italian so I think I have the right
> to tell you my 2cents!
>
> 1) Naples and the rubbish (OT):
> Maybe most of you don't know nothing about the
> rubbish situations in Naples
> and the near cities.
> This is the situation:
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rud-B1IDo-Q&feature=related
>
http://images.google.it/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=it&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ait%3Aofficial&q=napoli+immondizia&btnG=Cerca+immagini
> About 130.000ton of the rubbish on the streets!!!
> The fault is the Mafia, corrupt politicians and a
> lot of other people
> interested in the rubbish businnes.
> It's very humiliating that this is the image that
> the other countries has
> about Italy and about Italian people, so I write
> this e-mail.
>
>
> 2) Italian situation (OT):
> As you know Italy is a long and thin country, long
> about 1000km from north
> to south.
> You have to know that there are HUGE and HUGE
> difference beetween the
> northern regions and the southern regions.
> Many people who live in the northern Italy think
> that the south Italy looks
> like Third World, like the poorest and worst African
> Country.
> Who live in south Italy look at the northern like a
> paradise on earth! A lot
> of people leave the cities in south for search a
> better life and work in
> north.
> I'm so angry when someone from the other country
> think that the Mafia is
> present in Italy!!! Mafia is only in the south and
> biggest problem of my
> country comes also from the southern regions!
> Billions of Euro every year leave the northern
> regions for the south Italy,
> for try to resolve the dramatic situation, but all
> this money goes in the
> pocket of the Mafia :(
> When the political class will change I hope a lot of
> problems will
> disappear!
>
> So please when you insult Italy and the Italian
> People for Mafia and
> organized crime, remember that in Italy there are 2
> different Italy!!!
> A rich and beatiful north and a poor and really
> problematic south!!
>
> 3) POSTAL PROBLEM:
> I'm so sorry to read that the post from USA to
> Europe (and specially to
> Italy) go lost in a lot of cases!
> In the last 2years I have sent and received a lot of
> packages, about 100.
> Only one letter sent to Germany went lost...
> At now the person how sent something to me have
> never lost anything, I have
> had some trouble only with a couple of letters...
> Actually I'm waiting for 5 meteorites...I hope they
> are on the way :D !!!
>
> I don't know the cause of these lost and for the
> huge delay, i think the
> situation has worsened in the last few month.
> I live in a little city, about 100.000 inhabitants,
> in august there were
> about 25ton of post in local postal office, nobody
> knows what really
> happened and why!
> 6 month ago a package took about 15days for the trip
> from USA, now I know I
> have to wait 4-6weeks.
> But for example Greg Hupe has sent me a box on 29.15
> and it was arrived on
> 14.01!
> Some month ago I send a meteorite to Boston and the
> trip took just 8days
> with the normal post, just 0.80??? of shipping cost!
> The trip of a letter from Germany took 3weeks...
>
> I don't think there is corruption of the postal
> service...I think it's hard
> to say where is the problem.
> I hope in the future the problem disappear so we
> (European and Italian)
> could buy from the great USA dealer without problem!
>
>
> Ciao
>
> <><><><>
> Francesco Moser
>
>
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Received on Fri 18 Jan 2008 10:59:46 AM PST