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Oct. 5th, 2005 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So. I sent Wednesday a care package. Two weeks ago. By Global Priority Mail.
It came back to me the following week. It seems they wanted greater detail on my customs form. And they'd opened it. But everything was in it.
So I filled in greater detail, brought it back to the postoffice, and resent it.
It came back, today. No explanation. And it apparently made it to Britain before being returned (which means it was returned via air as well, since it didn't take a month to get back). This time, it has not been opened.
Fuck it. It goes FedEx tomorrow.
It came back to me the following week. It seems they wanted greater detail on my customs form. And they'd opened it. But everything was in it.
So I filled in greater detail, brought it back to the postoffice, and resent it.
It came back, today. No explanation. And it apparently made it to Britain before being returned (which means it was returned via air as well, since it didn't take a month to get back). This time, it has not been opened.
Fuck it. It goes FedEx tomorrow.
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Date: 2005-10-10 05:07 am (UTC)I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-05 05:16 pm (UTC)They deliver to the British post office, and have no control over the item once they hand it off at customs.
I know this because I had to send some stuff to a client of mine in the UK. The Post Office made it clear that I could not insure a package sent overseas, since they didn't control the package all the way to the doorstep. So I sent it FedEx, or maybe UPS. I forget which.
I'm not saying the Post Office doesn't suck. I'm just saying that for international delivery, the suckage isn't their fault. (Unless of course their Customs Liason was being a bonehead, daring the Limeys to throw your package back at him.)
--Howard
Re: I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-05 06:04 pm (UTC)It was definitely the fault of the Royal Mail that it got sent back to me. However, I decry the fraternity as a whole today. For I am... UNREASONABLE!
Re: I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-05 06:55 pm (UTC)Re: I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-05 07:18 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, the box marked "gifts" was sent at either Global Priority or one class above, if they have one... so it can't even be *that*.
It's gotta be the iPod condom. They're looking at the iPod condom entry and going, "Is it *sexy*?"
Re: I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-05 11:29 pm (UTC)Sorry, but not us there. We have no control at all on customs. That's literally 'hand it off to the nice boys at the DHS / Customs / Whomever has current control of that duty'. And well, you know as well as I do how even handed that little job is.
Re: I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-06 04:16 am (UTC)Re: I don't think you can blame the Post Office
Date: 2005-10-07 02:09 am (UTC)Actually, I didn't even suppose it had. I'm honestly not sure if customs acts on outgoing mail as well as incoming. I'd think they do to some degree, but again, not something I have info on.
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Date: 2005-10-05 06:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-05 06:05 pm (UTC)Like I said. FedEx. Go with a company responsible for the destination as well as the origin, I say.
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Date: 2005-10-05 06:31 pm (UTC)It's a flurry of Kraft Dinner to Wednesday!
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Date: 2005-10-05 09:46 pm (UTC)Yeah.
But avoid FedEx too. They're bastards.
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Date: 2005-10-05 11:20 pm (UTC)Dammit.
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Date: 2005-10-06 04:54 pm (UTC)Sorry. Girls' gotta get her romance where she can. I've been with my fella long enough that his idea of romance is "are you still dressed?"
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Date: 2005-10-05 11:00 pm (UTC)If it returns to you, it was meant to be.
If not, it's a MIRACLE!!!
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