https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477
--- Comment #34 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> --- > Executive summary: Disk sent correctly to USA, disk received correctly, disk > "lost" by WMF goods-in supplier. > > The Wellcome USB disk was sent and received correctly as legally verified by > Royal Mail (with a perfectly correct address as advised by the WMF, I have a > photograph of the package, and with postage paid for by WikiprojectMed). The > WMF appears to have a long term issue with its goods-in management > contractor, as if a delivery is not through one of their preferred > "friendly" U.S. delivery services, they manage to always lose the package. > In the U.K. this would be considered racketeering and I'm amazed that the > WMF has put up with this behaviour from their supplier for a period of years. > > I do not know who the Royal Mail use as a supplier for deliveries in > California, if the WMF insist that all deliveries must happen through named > delivery agents due to a "closed shop" policy from her supplier, I suggest > that the she pays for the delivery rather than expecting GLAM institutions > to collaborate in activities that may fail to meet UK charity law, and be > more expensive than standard international Royal Mail from the UK. I'm under the impression its not the contractor who has the problem, but that its actually illegal under united states law for usps to deliver to them (usa is a weird place...). In any case, you were told in several places not to send via usps or the disk wouldnt get there. That part is on you. > > A second disk WMF provided was sent within the UK (postage paid by me). Due > to the length of time passing with no update or responses, I have gone ahead > and started a slow direct upload instead. At the time of writing I'm around > 20% complete so as mentioned earlier this is a much more efficient and > effective process than hoping the WMF can help out as had I done this in the > first place I would have completed the upload at least a calendar month ago. So what happened here? Can we confirm if the intermediary even recieved it? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
