At 07:00 PM 5/19/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Leggatt wrote:
>>
>> This is a question to those living in the aforemention country (see subject).
>
>OK, here is my take on it:
>a) I've had exactly 2 shipments out 15 or so from the USA gone missing.
>Both were traced as far as the local post office before going bush, ie
>AUSTRALIA POST was the culprit.
>b) Shipments TO the USA are another matter, I still have something like
>$250 US worth of goods going USA-wards that were posted in February, Air
>Economy, and still are AWOL. One $130 shipment landed only 2 days ago, 3
>Farnarckling Months after sending!
>c) Getting back to USA->Oz... Best time (Air) was my Epic shipment,
>which took 6 days from the time I e-mailed the order to
>Discountgames.com . Worst time was an Imperium Games shipment, which
>took 4 weeks (according to the postmark on the parcel). Best time for
>surface mail is 19 days, worst time 3 months.
>
>The US mail service gets a lot of bad PR. It is, though, in my
>experience the cheapest and best postal service in the world. Compare
>Germany, where a parcel costs 35 AusD, Australia 9 AusD, USA 2.50 AusD
>for same weight and distance. I've had one bag of mail come with
>waterstains on it, and an apology from the US mail and a form for
>compensation. Can you imagine Australia Post doing that?
>
After all that, you still consider the best ? I do not really know about
elsewhere. In Singapore, local mail put into the mail box before, say 3 or 5
pm are guaranteed to be delivered by next day ! But Singapore in kinda small
anyway. Approx 25 by 40 km. Population 3 millions :)
Regards
Oki
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Received on Mon May 19 1997 - 08:17:45 UTC
