> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] U.S. mail > > Jamie and David, > > Jamie wrote: > > >Seems about the only things the postal > >service can deliver on time are bills. > > The US Postal Service doesn't deliver mail in Europe for heaven's sake! > Once your check arrives in Vassiliev's country, it's up to HIS postal > system to deliver. > > Charlie I am sorry, but I do think the kind of problems mentioned are with US mail. In that sense, the US is more of a 'wild west' country than most European countries (I am sorry to say). Like some of the other respondends,I've had my share. Luckily, never with meteorites sent from the US not arriving with me (apart from one that arrived broken - but that can be an accident). However, I did have trouble with items going lost - or more exactly: theft- in the mail myself, and that problem definitely was with either US Postal or US Customs Service. Two years ago, I sent a friend at the Institute of Meteoritics in Albuquerque a couple of slides of cosmic dust phenomena he had asked for. The enveloppe arrived at the UNM, yes, but it was cut open with a knife - a very neat small slit made- and the slides were gone. So I tried a second time. Again, someone had cut the enveloppe open and this second enveloppe also arrived empty at the UNM (I really wonder what the person in question wants to do with these slides - they are nice, yes, but not valuable). I have never had this kind of problems while sending things to Germany, Belgium, Australia, the UK, inside the Netherlands - but it happened twice on row while sending something to the US. So it is clear where the problem is - with either the US mail or US Customs Service. Eventually, I managed to get the promised slides to Frans by handing them over personally when he made a visit to Leiden. And both Frans and I were so angry that we filed complaints to the US Postal and the US Embassy in the Netherlands. Not that this helps, but it relieved our hearths... Marco Langbroek (the Netherlands) ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
