It's about 10 days for a simple letter. No boxes or products involved.
And, yes, I meant to imply that the problem is on the Canadian side.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/20/2013 10:22 PM, Johnie Stafford wrote:
> 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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