> Henry's take pride in using USPS; they think they are > delivering superior service to their customers. I have seldom > bought from the US, but have always asked for USPS; small > values (50 pounds max?), but never paid import duties either. > As a UK recipient, I hate couriers with a passion; I am never > in and have to drive to their depots, usually half an hour > out of town (and I am already out of town :-). > With the standard mail service, I just walk to the depot on a > Sat, or drive by on the way to work and that's pretty much > the case for everyone in inhabited areas, I should think. >
Har! Royal Mail left me a note a few weeks ago saying that a parcel was waiting for me at Woolwich. That's not my normal depot, which is only a short walk away. It took me almost an hour to get to the depot in Woolwich, which is not in a place that's easy to walk to. They then told me that I'd come to the wrong place and they didn't have my parcel. To add insult to injury, the guy on the desk said "If you had any common sense you'd have known the address printed on the card was wrong". ! At which point I exploded with mighty wrath and came down on him like a wolf on the fold. I would have smote him, had we not been separated by bulletproof glass. Bob
