posted on March 30, 2009 01:52:19 PM new
Actually, I don't ship surface mail Internationally any more, but there wasn't room in the subject line!
My brother in Wales UK mailed us a Christmas package at the beginning of Sept. last year and it never arrived here to Canada. I felt really bad because they struggle financially, but make a lot of effort to send us something very meaningful. They have given up asking us if it has arrived.
Well, today, guess what? We get a Christmas package from Wales, almost 7 months after it was mailed!
I will stick to my "airmail only" for Internationaly shipping.
posted on March 30, 2009 02:13:56 PM new
It is not just surface mail. I mailed a package on 12/26, priority mail to The Cayman Islands. It still has not arrived!!
posted on March 30, 2009 03:01:20 PM new
Priority to the Cayman Islands?? Merrie your package is lost.!!
I spent a long weekend of my misspent youth in the Cayman Islands. Wonderful memories.
posted on March 30, 2009 03:32:52 PM new
I found out when mailing Priority Flat rate to my daughter in Kazakhstan that it can take 7 weeks. Express Mail package gets there in 7-10 days and it is not that much more expensive (up to about 8 lbs). They hand deliver the Express Mail and call her when they feel like it for the Priority Mail.
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posted on March 30, 2009 04:24:47 PM new
Amber,
we dont have surface mail anymore,everything goes by plane!
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Economic Reform act of Chairman Obama of the socialist States of America :
10 ounces of meat per month,half a yard of cotton per year per adult.
Hellilujah!
posted on March 30, 2009 05:27:04 PM new
hwahwa: In Canada we have packages go surface mail or airmail, that is what it is called here. Surface mail still goes by air, but it sits and waits until there is room on a plane, whereas airmail space is set aside for airmail. I guess even mail that used to go by ship couldn't really be called surface mail, these days, that would be a very expensive way to send it.
Caroline 