I don't think you can blame the Post Office. They don't deliver in Britain, or anywhere else outside the US (and protectorates, and APOs, etc.)
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.)
I don't think you can blame the Post Office
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