I do hope that no-one has had the same experience that Clay and I have just
had. I got a Posh bags bobbin bag for her at Southern Counties Lacemakers
Fair and posted it airmail on 23rd November. It was delivered to her today.
Needless to say we were both in a state of anguish over what had happened to
it. I posted 4 parcels together, of which 3 were to Florida - one of those
was delivered on 23rd December and the other two are still in the wind
somewhere.
I'd got the forms downloaded to report missing mail ready to send as soon as
Royal Mail starts working again on Wednesday.
Royal Mail are saying that, because of increased US security, post is being
delayed by about a week as they can no longer send mail on passenger flights
and are having to find space on cargo flights, as well as increased customs
checks when the post finally arrives in the US. At the moment no parcels can
be tracked.
We've also had two small book packages returned by Royal Mail to Amazon as
undeliverable - no attempt to deliver has been made. Our postie said there
are thousands of Amazon parcels in the local sorting office waiting to be
attended to. Reckon they decided it would be quicker to clear the backlog
around the country by sending whole consignments back to Amazon.
So if you've got packages already in the system bound for the US, then you
need patience - a lot of it. And if you're planning to send something, it
might be a good idea to wait until the end of January in the hope that they
will have cleared the backlog and things will move a bit quicker.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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