if it sat in London, that has nothing to do with USPS, that's all Royal
Post.
but it's regular now for foreign mail services to be taking this long
and longer
On 7/23/2021 7:36 PM, Susan Heim wrote:
I had a customer in November order a poster for his wife for
Christmas. He paid for 3 day International Express shipping via
USPS. The poster sat in London for months and he finally
received the poster at the end of March. I refunded his money and
shipping as I felt horrible about it. Luckily it was only a $125 poster.
Sue
Hollywood Poster Frames
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*Subject:* Re: [MOPO] The Post Office has gone DRASTICALLY downhill
the past few years especially NOW
Hi Bruce
It’s hard to understand how USPS could damage your packages because
you certainly pack well. I am finding USPS International Mail is
incredibly slow at the moment and the tracking often shows packages
going via Japan and even London. I now ask for UPS for shipping. They
take around a week from the US to Australia and are very reliable (so
far).
Regards
John
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*Bruce Hershenson
*Sent:* 24 July, 2021 12:07 PM
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*Subject:* [MOPO] The Post Office has gone DRASTICALLY downhill the
past few years especially NOW
The U.S. Post Office has gone DRASTICALLY downhill the past few years,
and that slide is accelerating dramatically. Packages sent Priority
Mail now routinely take a week or more to arrive in the U.S., as
opposed to 2 to 5 days a couple of years ago.
Packages sent outside the U.S. fare far worse. They often take a month
or more, and usually there is no tracking during that time (or
sometimes false tracking of places it has never been).
But worst of all is the DAMAGE. Anyone who has ordered from my
company, eMoviePoster.com, KNOWS we use the strongest tubes of anyone.
Until last year, we only had two or three damaged packages each year,
out of the 25,000 or so we send each year!
In the past year, we have had around ten times that. It still is a
VERY tiny percentage of the total we send (around one tenth of one
percent), which is a tribute to how strong our tubes and boxes are),
but when the rate goes up ten times after 30 years of no change, you
KNOW they are doing something VERY wrong in how they handle tubes and
packages.
We sent a tube back in March. The customer received it crushed, and
worse yet, the mailman dropped the crushed tube off at the customer's
front door, rang the doorbell and left.
He later that day received an email saying that he had accepted the
tube and had signed for it, and that was a lie (the customer has the
ring video doorbell that proves otherwise).
He sent us pictures of the crushed tube, and we filed the claim. First
the Post Office said we needed pictures of the damage, and we sent
pictures of the tube and damaged posters.
Next they said we needed to prove the customer had paid what we said.
We sent a copy of the invoice, and they said that was not sufficient.
We sent the a copy of his payment, and they accepted that.
But now they sent a new letter stating they looked at our images of
the crushed tube and have determined we did not use a strong enough
tube, so they are denying our claim, and suggest we double tube all
orders in the future! 🙁
I KNOW we used a tube stronger than 99% of the tubes anyone else does,
and that they simply never want to pay any insurance claims, even
though they love taking the insurance money.
So the Post Office crushed a super-strong tube, lied about the
customer signing for it, delayed my rightful claim for months, and
then denied it and told me to use double tubes!
I am thinking a FAR better suggestion is that we switch ALL our
business (15,000 to 25,000 tubes and packages a year) to UPS and Fed Ex!
If anyone else reading this wonders WHY the Post Office is going
broke, the above surely is instructive as to why. And please feel free
to share this with anyone and everyone who ever mails or receives any
packages or tubes through the USPS. 🙁
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