I was going to bring up Customs as well. When I shipped that camera to Vick
it spent something like 10 days in customs.
BTW, a tip for anybody that doesn't know... If you go to the USPS site and
enter the Customs receipt ticket number into their tracking thing it will
show you just how much time it spent in Customs.
Johnie Stafford
McKinney, TX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Crawford [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 7:23 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] RANT: Shipping Rates
>
> Yeah but is is the US postal service's fault, or the Canadian? Remember,
the
> Canadians deliver the package, and in my experience the USPS gets the
> packages out of the US pretty fast, and the foreign postal services and
> customs people then delay them.
>
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> On 9/20/13 8:03 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Try mailing something to Canada if you want a good example of
> >inefficiency. Mailing to the west coast of the USA from the east coast
> >is 3 days. The same thing from the east coast of the US to Vancouver
> >is
> >10 days.
> >
> >Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >On 9/20/2013 7:17 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> >> The US postal service is actually very efficient when you consider
> >>the enormous volume of mail it handles. The USA has 320,000,000
> >>people, far more than ANY country in Europe. The reason it has
> >>financial problems is because of political meddling by congress.
> >>Companies like UPS and FedEx want the Postal Service to be shut down.
> >>They lobby (bribe) politicians to do so, but the USPS is one of the
> >>very few institutions of government that the constitution REQUIRES
> >>the government to operate. So, congress passes laws requiring the
> >>USPS to do things that cost a lot of money, like keeping far more
> >>money in their pension fund than they will actually need to pay
> >>postal workers their pensions, while at the same time regulating
> >>postal rates to make sure the USPS cannot generate the income needed
> >>to fund this stuff.
> >>
> >> Remember, also, that when you ship overseas, the USPS does not
> >>deliver it to the final destination. They fly it to the other country
> >>and hand it to that country's postal service to deliver.
> >>
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