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I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All
of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS business is transacted in town at the Post Office. I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. 88 ! Rose - N7HKW [hidden email] 1-406-560-3738 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I am one of Rose's satisfied customers.
I do need to report an unfavorable experience with USPS. I mailed a simple envelope on a Friday and sent it priority mail. The letter was going from Seattle to a town in central Colorado. The letter did not get there until the following Thursday. Although I paid close to $10 to expedite the letter I fail to see how I gained any expedition at all. Simple first class mail would have been just as fast. Please note this comment has nothing to do with Rose or her business. The package I got from her arrived timely. -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Rose Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 9:41 AM To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: USPS mailing I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS business is transacted in town at the Post Office. I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. 88 ! Rose - N7HKW [hidden email] 1-406-560-3738 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hi George,
If you paid for Priority Mail Express, you're due a refund from the Post Office. If you used Priority Mail you did NOT pay for expedited service, there's no delivery time guarantee and no promise that it will be delivered faster than First Class. The only benefits of Priority Mail are package tracking and $50 insurance. Perhaps your postmaster mislead you... 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Thornton" <[hidden email]> To: "Rose" <[hidden email]>, "Elecraft Reflector" <[hidden email]> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 6:00:32 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: USPS mailing I am one of Rose's satisfied customers. I do need to report an unfavorable experience with USPS. I mailed a simple envelope on a Friday and sent it priority mail. The letter was going from Seattle to a town in central Colorado. The letter did not get there until the following Thursday. Although I paid close to $10 to expedite the letter I fail to see how I gained any expedition at all. Simple first class mail would have been just as fast. Please note this comment has nothing to do with Rose or her business. The package I got from her arrived timely. -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Rose Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 9:41 AM To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: USPS mailing I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS business is transacted in town at the Post Office. I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. 88 ! Rose - N7HKW [hidden email] 1-406-560-3738 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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1. In the US, USPS priority mail is great. If you are sending something
outside of the country it is out of USPS' control at the foreign airport. This is where the fun begins. In Israel, our postal service adds at least 2 weeks to get a package through customs, and you don't know where it is or what's going on for most of that time. Sometimes things get lost, and sometimes there are complications with customs. UPS does it in half a day without problems, but the cost can be astronomical. I bought a big Johnson Matchbox from a guy in MN. UPS charged more than $450 to ship it. 2. There is no good reason for Americans to not sell things to foreigners if the foreigner agrees to pay the actual shipping in advance by Paypal or bank transfer. All the risk is on the buyer. The only thing the American has to do is fill out a customs form when he sends it. 73, Victor, 4X6GP Rehovot, Israel Formerly K2VCO CWops no. 5 http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ On 02/01/2019 19:40, Rose wrote: > I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All > of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. > To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. > I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS > business is transacted in town at the Post Office. > > I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 > at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again > purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. > > The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail > receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority > mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. > An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) > > I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. > > 88 ! > Rose - N7HKW > [hidden email] > 1-406-560-3738 Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I can’t speak for other countries but shipping to Canada tracks through customs and all the way to delivery.
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP <[hidden email]> wrote: > > 1. In the US, USPS priority mail is great. If you are sending something outside of the country it is out of USPS' control at the foreign airport. This is where the fun begins. In Israel, our postal service adds at least 2 weeks to get a package through customs, and you don't know where it is or what's going on for most of that time. Sometimes things get lost, and sometimes there are complications with customs. UPS does it in half a day without problems, but the cost can be astronomical. I bought a big Johnson Matchbox from a guy in MN. UPS charged more than $450 to ship it. > > 2. There is no good reason for Americans to not sell things to foreigners if the foreigner agrees to pay the actual shipping in advance by Paypal or bank transfer. All the risk is on the buyer. The only thing the American has to do is fill out a customs form when he sends it. > > 73, > Victor, 4X6GP > Rehovot, Israel > Formerly K2VCO > CWops no. 5 > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ >> On 02/01/2019 19:40, Rose wrote: >> I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All >> of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. >> To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. >> I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS >> business is transacted in town at the Post Office. >> I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 >> at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again >> purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. >> The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail >> receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority >> mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. >> An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) >> I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. >> 88 ! >> Rose - N7HKW >> [hidden email] >> 1-406-560-3738 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Actually, there are issues with USPS Priority Mail if you use Paypal and
sell to someone you don't know and hope to use the Seller Protections. If you read the fine print, Paypal does not accept the proof of delivery unless a specific signature is obtained, which is not available with Priority Mail. I still use it, but there is a risk the buyer can claim they did not receive the product and ask for a charge back from Paypal. I have never had anything lost or any customer claim it was not received. Once, a UK customer was not home and did not pay the Customs fee in time. The box was dutifully sent back to me. I received it two months later and reshipped it to the customer. About three months after the order, they finally got it! Now I make sure they have the tracking number and remind them when it gets to their country so they are looking for it. Another time a clearly marked package to a foreign country got mistakenly sent to a US post office because the automatic reader picked up part of the address that looked like a zip code. I tracked that down with the help of a small town postmaster and it finally made it to the destination. So, I have had some "incidents" but eventually every package got to it's destination. On a big order I did not want to risk, I shipped via DHL. It was way more expensive and they had some issues with customs too, but it finally arrived. 73, Mark W7MLG On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:03 PM Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP <[hidden email]> wrote: > 1. In the US, USPS priority mail is great. If you are sending something > outside of the country it is out of USPS' control at the foreign > airport. This is where the fun begins. In Israel, our postal service > adds at least 2 weeks to get a package through customs, and you don't > know where it is or what's going on for most of that time. Sometimes > things get lost, and sometimes there are complications with customs. UPS > does it in half a day without problems, but the cost can be > astronomical. I bought a big Johnson Matchbox from a guy in MN. UPS > charged more than $450 to ship it. > > 2. There is no good reason for Americans to not sell things to > foreigners if the foreigner agrees to pay the actual shipping in advance > by Paypal or bank transfer. All the risk is on the buyer. The only thing > the American has to do is fill out a customs form when he sends it. > > 73, > Victor, 4X6GP > Rehovot, Israel > Formerly K2VCO > CWops no. 5 > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > On 02/01/2019 19:40, Rose wrote: > > I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All > > of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. > > To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. > > I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS > > business is transacted in town at the Post Office. > > > > I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 > > at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again > > purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. > > > > The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail > > receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority > > mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. > > An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) > > > > I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, > IMO. > > > > 88 ! > > Rose - N7HKW > > [hidden email] > > 1-406-560-3738 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I am completely satisifed with anything shipped from Elecraft.
Sent from Yahoo Mail on -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Rose Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 9:41 AM To: Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: USPS mailing I've been making Elecraft cases and covers for eleven years. All of the hundreds I've made have been sent via USPS Priority Mail. To date, not a single one has gone astray … a remarkable record. I live "in the country" and have no mail delivery, so all of my USPS business is transacted in town at the Post Office. I purchase task-specific sizes of cartons from U-Line. usually 50 at a time. Cover orders are sent in padded envelopes, again purchased specifically from U-Line for the task. The Post Office provides a delivery date on each Priority Mail receipt, and these … so far … have proved highly accurate. Priority mail will reach anywhere in the US within a maximum of three days. An exception … an order to Turkey took -five- days! (:-) I will -not- use any other service. Fed-Ex is an awful organization, IMO. 88 ! Rose - N7HKW [hidden email] 1-406-560-3738 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Elecraft normally uses UPS except for small lightweight items - they
have a corporate account with good rates. For small parts orders, I normally request First Class Mail or if it exceeds 13 Oz. USPS Priority Mail. Either one normally reaches me in 3 days or less. 73, Don W3FPR On 1/2/2019 2:38 PM, Ken B via Elecraft wrote: > I am completely satisifed with anything shipped from Elecraft. > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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