[Healeys] USPS

Tue Aug 24 22:15:29 MDT 2021

Indeed.  I have previously sung the praises of the USPS to whomever would listen, and in fact have slipped over the border to post a package from the US, to meet a deadline, ...........................BUT, as I stated in my original post, the villain of this particular piece appears to be the U.S. Customs Service with the added aggravation of no reason given - according to the vendor - for the rejected parcel!

    On Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 17:09:25 GMT-7, Patrick & Caroline Quinn via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:  

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G’day Ray

>From my experience throughout the world people complain about their local postal systems, after all what could be simpler that placing a sheet of paper in an envelope and asking someone to take it from A to B?

However I wonder if the world’s postal systems could have foreseen the massive increase in online shopping due to Covid.

Here in Australia, the use of online shopping has skyrocketed beyond all expectations. 

I am located in the mountains NW of Sydney and the city/environs (including us) has been in lockdown since mid-June and it will last to the end of September at least.

Our household is just one small example and we have bought garden rakes to coffee to medications all online. At the moment we are waiting for fabric from the US, China and the UK; plants/seeds from within Australia; Austin-Healey parts from within Australia; Healey parts from the UK; plastic models from China; bedding from within Australia; garden implements from the UK; books from the UK; and, screws/nuts/bolts from within Australia.

Australia Post is lifting its game and parcels are arriving quicker than normal mail (letters). Parcels are also delivered six days a week, while post is Monday to Friday.

One of the places we buy fabric is from an outlet in South Carolina and it’s always interesting to watch how the parcel is tracked through the USPS system as it too is getting faster. Although there are some places in the US where the parcel seems to sit for an inordinate amount of time. Then instead of a parcel coming direct from the US to Australia, it may go via Tokyo, Hong Kong or Singapore. As there are no aircraft carrying tourists coming to Australia, air traffic has dropped considerably and air cargo flights are increasingly being relied upon.

Yes give the postal systems some slack as it is a difficult time.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn

Blue Mountains, Australia

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ray Juncal via Healeys
Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2021 1:43 AM
To: Bob Haskell; i erbs
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] USPS

While I may agree with Ira, lets keep politics off this list . We all get enough of that all ready.

RayJuncal

On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 08:02:56 AM PDT, i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote: 

The USPS is seeing massive issues because the post master want to privatize it's services, and covid. But there is a plan to cause issues and reduce service and increase delivery times. Dejoy needs to go. He is a Trump crony. 

Ira Erbs
1959 AH 100-6
1967 MGB
Milwaukie, OR

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 4:03 AM Bob Haskell via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

I have to cut the USPS some slack due to the pandemic.  I had priority mail boxes sit for a week at distribution centers.  But incoming international packages has been much worse.  An envelope from Germany sat in NYC for three months.  A print in a cardboard tube from the UK sat in Chicago for four months.  On the other hand, I recently bought a copy of Donald Healey's 8C Triumph Dolomite book from the UK - three weeks.  Over the weekend, I bought a copy of Herve Chevalier's latest Healey book on the AH 100.  Will see how long that takes.
Cheers,  Bob HaskellAustin Healey 3000 BN7/BT7 registrar
On 8/24/21 5:44 AM, Michael Oritt via Healeys wrote:

I can, with a reasonable sense of certainty that my directions will be followed in a timely fashion, place an envelope in my mailbox and a person will pass that envelope to his/her fellow employees who will in turn carry that envelope 3000 or so miles and bring it to my addressee's home or place of business in 3-4 days, all for $.055 or less.  Not a bad deal!

Best--Michael Oritt

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 2:40 AM Alan Seigrist via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

USPS is really messed up since COVID.  

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 3:44 AM David Lodge via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

I bought a used part from someone in the US only to have the package "returned to sender" for no apparent reason!  Evidently US Customs is the culprit.  I have copies of the shipping label here and it has no fewer than four official-looking stamps on it after it was accepted for mailing!    Beware, this could happen to you!  Interestingly. I have mailed stuff from here in Canada to the US without ever having had a problem.

Has anyone else been subjected to this lunacy?

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