Re: Getting items posted from the US to UK Message #4 Posted by Walter B on 2 Sept 2009, 4:12 p.m., in response to message #2 by Gene Wright
Of course, I can only respond based on my personal experience. This tells me, however, that *none* of the parcels, flat rate boxes, or envelopes carrying my purchases across the Atlantic ever got lost. Nor did any letter disappear. AFAIK postal service is paid to deliver mailings, not to drop, discard, destroy them. And they do their job quite well.
If you ask a large crowd for interesting stories, however, what will you get? Horror stories, since the normal stuff is sooo boring. Here, the internet is collecting the gossip of this planet. No more double-headed cows or headless devils nowadays anymore (I hope), but lost mail and similar exceptional events. And big business is interested in such stories, else nobody would buy an insurance.
OK, I admit my statements are only valid for shipping from one civilized country to another one, both showing a reasonably low level of corruption along the shipping line (think of customs). But such it is. Sorry ;)
Hope this brings this topic on solid grounds again.
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