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(08-05-2020, 02:05 AM)Captainjonny Wrote:
(08-04-2020, 11:38 PM)Frog1956 Wrote: Just received a couple of razor handles. 19 days in the post from Russia to the USA.

What shipping method of shipping did they send your handles from Russia?  I was quoted $35 for a faster shipping method from Russia (by Yazon87), versus his normal shipping fee.  Due to Covid19, he could not assure me that the extra postage would ensure a faster time.  My Razor Blades Club shipment from Germany took 4 weeks.  I figured that it could be months from Russia, even with paying a higher cost for shipping.  Yazon87 had to stop his Ebay account due to 50 lost orders, which also kind of spooked me.  Either things are improving or you got lucky!

Envelope is marked "Russian Post," and "Par Avion" and was delivered with a tracking number into my home mail box by a US Postal carrier so I assume it was normal mail.  It did have 690 rubles of stamps -- at 014 to the USD that is $9,40 in postage.

I will note that the only problems I have every had with shipping international goods has been with express freight companies -- DHL in particular.  I once had an IBM Seletric III (a very expensive typewriter in 1992) show up banded to a pallet containing parts for 360 foot-tonne pile hammer at a Korean construction site.  The DHL label on the typewriter clearly stated that it was supposed to be in Singapore.  Tried to get the local DHL freight forwarded to pick it up for correct delivery for over six weeks.  He eventually got tired of my complaining and picked the box up out of my office only to carry it down the hall where he gave it to my secretary.
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I have received packages from Europe but it is slow.  Germany and Italy seem to be ok as well as the UK.
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The USPS is so FUBAR now that it's beyond belief!! I have two pckgs. sent 10 Dec. from NJ languishing in Houston, TX for SIX damn days!! Smartpost is a pox!!! Also, those idiots sent my Maggard shipment from Houston today....................to Shrewsbury, MA and I am in Texas!!!  Angry

Unions and Affirmative Action have killed civil service. Helen Keller could see it.
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(This post was last modified: 12-24-2020, 03:21 AM by gregcss.)
(12-24-2020, 02:55 AM)BPman Wrote: The USPS is so FUBAR now that it's beyond belief!! I have two pckgs. sent 10 Dec. from NJ languishing in Houston, TX for SIX damn days!! Smartpost is a pox!!! Also, those idiots sent my Maggard shipment from Houston today....................to Shrewsbury, MA and I am in Texas!!!  Angry

Unions and Affirmative Action have killed civil service. Helen Keller could see it.

I stand behind USPS, however the last week or two are quite bonkers. I wonder if they have new, inexperienced staff tossing packages on wrong trucks, slower to process, etc. Let alone stressed and thinned experienced staff. Things are scanned in places that I have not seen before and/or would not expect. Definitely slow this week in particular.

Usually items are delivered on time or a day early, with an occasional 1 day delay - this is incoming and outgoing mail.

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(This post was last modified: 12-24-2020, 03:30 AM by gregcss.)
This thread is about Europe to US. Use DHL if the vendor has that option (and if you have coin). Less than 2 months ago I received a package from Hong Kong to east coast US in 3 days


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