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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