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

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:17:45 +0100
Message-ID: <4790d129.1da.76f0.1439232458_at_webmailh1.aruba.it>

its many strange many others from USA ship to Italy and
arrive all with no problems and you and other few no

Matteo

----- Original Message -----
Da : Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
A : Moser Francesco <cojack at tiscali.it>, ZZ ML
Meteorite-List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Oggetto : Re: [meteorite-list] I will no longer ship to
Italy using paypal
Data : Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:59:46 -0800 (PST)

> 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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