[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont understand how the UK Royalmail/Parcelforce can be so incompetent > it seems. The US post office website shows the package arriving in the > UK on Sep 20th. The Royalmail/Parcelforce people keep pointing fingers > at each other saying that the other guy is handling it. And their > website doesnt even know that the package exists. > > ----- > > U.K. Royal Mail has does this to me more than once. But the U.S. Postal > Service employees can be inept too. I recently paid to ship a parcel to > England by air mail. Apparently the postal service employee screwed up, > because it went by surface mail. And then it came back to me by surface > mail when Parcel Force screwed up the delivery. I will resend it by UPS.
Ugh, I hope that doesnt happen here. > > U.S. Postal Service will take a full year to reimburse you. I kid you > not. Did you and the buyer agree on postal service shipping? If so, you > might suggest a refund of $250 now, and $250 when the postal service > pays the insurance claim. > Thats just ridiculous, why does it take so long? He wanted to ship it economically. USPS was 1/3 of what UPS and FedEx wanted to charge. Of course, they deliver. > If shipping by postal service was your idea, then to protect your > reputation as a seller you probably should refund the buyer $500. Then > you are out of luck for a year on that money. > I might just do that for any hope of avoiding a negative. I might still get one because of the discrepancy between the refunded amount and the purchase price + shipping. > Joe > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
