No, I think it's much simpler than that. For someone who it trying to
make a business of ebay transactions selling relatively low cost items,
time and fuel expended in going to the post office and filling out
customs forms is simply undesirable if you think you can sell the item
domestically.
Actually, the USPS system does support mailings from the comfort of your
own home by use of software that permits printing your own postage and
you can also arrange for parcel pickup. Whether this extends to
international postage and customs forms I don't know.
In the past 43 years I have voted in four states and three different
locales within one of them. All have been within a mile or two of my
home, typically a school gymnasium. Never on a weekend but always
served by cheerful (mostly retiree) volunteers and never full of angry
people. That also includes 10 years of voting in South Florida where we
used the famous hand punched cards which were subject to hanging chads.
We were always instructed to check the back of the card and pull them
off if still dangling there. I have no sympathy for those who don't
follow simple instructions.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I've heard that excuse before in comments like - "I only go to the
> post office on alternate Thursdays if the wind is from the south and
> the sheep's entrails augur well so you'll just have to wait a bit." I
> can't imagine any Australian being more than a few kilometres from a
> post office unless they live in the middle of the bloody desert. I'm
> on the semi-forested fringe of the city and mine is in the local
> newsagency 2km away - used to be a separate building and now it's a
> sub-agency. It's in the shopping strip and, well, you gotta go
> shopping sometime innit? Every rural settlement here has an agency
> that can deal with an international parcel without problems. They use
> - gasp - wait for it - computers to organise it. Once I had to go and
> have a cup of coffee and wait for 30 mins 'cos the connection was down.
> My experience of the UK postal system is that it hasn't moved out of
> the dark ages much. Of the French system that it seems much like ours
> with a shop that sells all you need from boxes to bubble wrap. Are
> USPS ones like your voting booths - large, very far apart, closed at
> weekends and full of angry people?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 25/08/2007, at 12:17 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Probably most murkins won't sell to no furriners coz ya gotta make a
>> trip to the post office. Gets 'spensive in time and gas.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>> Well, WHY DONCHYA THEN! My own irritation is murkins who won't sell
>>> to any other country (well perhaps Canada if you grovel). Sometimes
>>> they have statements like 'Ain't gonna, don't ask' (well thats the
>>> tone). Very frustrating sometimes. And Germans who only accept IBAN
>>> transfers - takes forever, costs a fortune.
>>> Yeah, yeah I know they've got the right but.....
>>> Andrew Fildes
>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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