Hey, nice encapsulation of the story. I use Global Express Mail from the
Post Office and have found it to be quite reliable. Light, thin packages go
in a Global Priority envelope (which usually runs a max of $10)
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
Olympus OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: <jason.gidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:58 AM
Subject: [OM] A global shipping good news story
> To everyone who is understandably nervous about global shipping sometimes
> it does turn out all right
>
> Around Christmas time John H put out a FS note for a few OM-PC's that he
> had going. The thought of getting another OM body complete with a Camtech
> overhaul at a good price was too much to resist so I took the plunge. Now
> as you can imagine, working in Banking IT I like to live life on the edge
> ;-)))) and deliberately forgot to tell him my new address just for kicks
> (this is of course a lie :-)). After a while the penny dropped and I
> realised the camera would be sent to my old address nearly 90 miles away!!
> I duly phoned the new owners of the house (hoping that the roof hadn't
> caved in since we sold it) only to find it came with a customs charge and
> they took it back to the depot. Many phone calls later after being passed
> around various branches of the Royal Mail and Parcel Force I discovered
> that they had returned to sender.
>
> My heart sank. After all the mails reporting overseas shipping problems
> my
> hopes weren't high that the camera would indeed make it back to NY this
> side of 2010. However, I got in touch with John, duly gave him my new
> address and he kindly agreed to resend it if and when it turned up. Well
> what do you know, about a week later I get an email saying that he'd
> resent
> it and no more than a week later it arrived at my doorstep completely
> undamaged and being none the worse for wear having been across the
> Atlantic
> 3 -YES 3 - times and the camera was in even better condition than I'd
> hoped.
>
> So sometimes global shipping works and my sincere thanks to John H for a
> lovely camera and for being patient with a complete idiot.
>
> Jason.
>
>
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