I get that Helmut, but (unsympathetic me here), both of those events started over a year ago. Across the world individuals, households and businesses have had to adapt.
I am fed up with receiving an email or listening to a recorded message from a multi-million pound / dollar / euro business telling me that they are busy due to COVID or Brexit. If they were being managed well, they would be reacting - chartering their own-flights - automating their processes - taking on new staff etc. We have all had to do it in our own small ways, but many organisations, run by people receiving ludicrous fat-cat salaries seem unable to do so, and, we are all suffering because of it. People have been and continue to die, so receiving a tube late isn’t the end of the world, but there are lots of other examples. Regards, Adam. ART OF THE MOVIES Original vintage and contemporary movie posters ArtoftheMovies.co.uk 07724 253119 On 25 Jul 2021, at 09:37, texasmu...@web.de wrote: Has anyone heard of Covid-19 yet? There is hardly any air traffic at the moment, and USPS is piggybacking on commercial flights. Fedex and UPS have their own fleets, and they have adjusted fairly well by now. Still, they also face frequent delays. @Adam: Due the Brexit, millions and millions of additional customs declarations have to be filed, both for imports to the UK and for exports to the UK. Helmut Gesendet: Samstag, 24. Juli 2021 um 11:35 Uhr Von: "Adam Kennedy" <a...@artofthemovies.co.uk> An: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Betreff: Re: [MOPO] The Post Office has gone DRASTICALLY downhill the past few years especially NOW I can’t add much more than to agree with everything being said. The time to get things to the UK from the US with USPS is absolutely ridiculous. Even when they arrive in the UK, they often sit with USPS for weeks before they hand them over to the Royal Mail for delivery, which is even more frustrating! ART OF THE MOVIES Original vintage and contemporary movie posters ArtoftheMovies.co.uk 07724 253119<tel:07724%20253119> On 24 Jul 2021, at 03:40, MPB warehouse <wareho...@comic-art.com> wrote: 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 ________________________________ From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU><mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> on behalf of Moviemem Original Movie Posters <johnr...@moviemem.com><mailto:johnr...@moviemem.com> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 2:29 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU><mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> 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 John Reid Moviemem Original Movie Posters www.moviemem.com<http://www.moviemem.com/> Like Us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/moviememmovieposters/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf> PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia Phone: 0414 720 369<tel:0414%20720%20369> From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: 24 July, 2021 12:07 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> 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. 🙁 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
