Well said, Helmut, and your examples of what it has cost you to both
ship and receive items to Germany certainly shows that the high
shipping prices, discussed by others, DO NOT need to be charged to
clients.
It's simply another way for sellers to line their pockets with
additional cash, especially when no secondary, cheaper shipping
methods are offered.
40.00 to mail a single lobby card to the UK?? THAT is absurd and
beyond unwarranted.
It's no different than the seller in Canada who charges a flat 25.00
(even to the US) to mail what could potentially be a folded, 99 cent
poster. Outrageous.
-KL
On 12/12/11, Helmut Hamm <texasmu...@web.de> wrote:
>> Last winter we shipped some posters to the UK during
>> the extreme inclimate weather by First Class Mail. These items were hung
>> up for over two months.
>
> Dear Kirby and Freeman,
>
> within the last month, I received a significant number of packages sent
> First Class, not a single one took longer than two weeks, some got here
> within less than ten days, all of them were delivered straight to my
> mailbox.
>
> USPS claims that Priority Mail takes about 7-10 days or so. In my
> experience, this is NONSENSE: I had TWO packages shipped Priority Mail
> recently: The first one shipped a full month ago and I just got notice from
> customs that I can pick it up, so I'm going to waste half a work day on that
> one. (And we're talking about a value of merely US-$50 here.)
> The other package was apparently shipped mid-November, no trace of it so far
> and as it seems, the seller has lost the tracking number. I do not doubt
> that he shipped it, but it's been a month and it's no here yet.
> If agreed upfront, and if I feel confident about the seller, I'm perfectly
> happy to cover the risk of an actual loss. With this seller, I would have
> been happy to do so in this case, all I would have requested is postage at
> actual cost and the said Certificate of Mailing, and he wouldn't have any
> worries.
> On the other hand, when I'm made to pay for Priority and the seller can't
> show the tracking number, I will obviously file a Paypal claim, if my order
> has not arrived after a month.
>
> In over 15 years of mail order business, I think I had less than 10 items
> that were actually lost in the mail system, and that counts for both
> incoming AND outgoing mail. I lost a lot more money to sellers who never
> actually shipped my order.
>
> To each his own, but as I said before, in my personal every-day experience,
> Priority Mail holds NO advantage for me, it costs a lot of my money AND my
> time through the now inevitable customs hassle, so unless I'm really crazy
> about something and/or it's an irresistible deal, I more and more avoid
> sellers who are unwilling to work with me on this.
>
> Helmut
>
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