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So far Spain (Correos) wins for the slowest shipping 31+ days! And this is supposed to be airmail.

cavguy wrote:So far Spain (Correos) wins for the slowest shipping 31+ days! And this is supposed to be airmail.

Don't think so. I sent a parcel to akg70 in Romania last 12/16 via Priority Mail USPS. they told me it was going to be there between 6-10 days. Today I got notice that it arrived yesterday @ Romania and is in transit to Adrian.almost 23 days later!!!

Yesterday I got the "warning" from customs office, so tomorrow I'll got it.

ak70g2 wrote:Yesterday I got the "warning" from customs office, so tomorrow I'll got it.

A parcel sent from US to us at Dec 4th arrived at our customs at Dec 23rd and is still held "hostage" there. We didn´t got it yet - 5 weeks later...

It looks like Aus Post rates as highly as all the other , postal and Courier services mentioned on this thread. After 5 weeks of waiting several phone calls and emails, they finally deigned to deliver my package. First they could not find my address and returned it too sender ( By the way they did not even look for my address). Surprise surprise, it did not even get back to the sender because they could not locate his address either . Finally I tracked it down to a mail centre (warehouse) in Brisbane where it had sat for a month waiting for collection by the sender. Slight problem he lives in Townsville about 2000km away . When I called to see if I could have it resent to me or even to pick it up ( only about 30 km from me). I'm sorry its in senders possession can you get him to come in and remail it? .

Finally I I got hold of a very helpful govt employee who fwded it to me with no further problems. Big Up to Andrew of the Australia post, ( and it was his first day)

Actually I sent a parcel to Germany two or three days ago. It was not so big, it was almost 15 kgs. So, it was big but nothing special. The price was 70€!!!! can you believe that? 70€!!! a total rip-off!!! What makes me jealous is that from Germany to Spain the same parcel would be something like 20€, 25€ but I`m sure it wouldn`t reach the 30€. Awfull expensive.

And Post Office is the cheapest. Courier services like UPS, Hermes, and the like would have charged me 120€.

No comment.

Good luck, people.

Luis0449

I've sent a 6.4 kg in Belgium on January 13. Cost me around 30 euros. I know that a parcel over 10 kg is very expensive to send from here too.

And Post Office is the cheapest. Courier services like UPS, Hermes, and the like would have charged me 120€.

Luis, is the same here. I researched using UPS or FEDEX to send the parcel to Adrin In Romania and they charged "an arm,both legs, one ear and at least the two index fingers" over $80-100 dollars.
I used USPS and still they charged me close to $ 50-60 bucks for a parcel of 5-6 pounds ( 2-3 kilos.. excuse my metric ).
I used Priority Mail which they told me it was going to be delivered in 6-10 days. Instead it took almost a month for him to receive it.

Bypah wrote: And Post Office is the cheapest. Courier services like UPS, Hermes, and the like would have charged me 120€.

Luis, is the same here. I researched using UPS or FEDEX to send the parcel to Adrin In Romania and they charged "an arm,both legs, one ear and at least the two index fingers" over $80-100 dollars.
I used USPS and still they charged me close to $ 50-60 bucks for a parcel of 5-6 pounds ( 2-3 kilos.. excuse my metric ).
I used Priority Mail which they told me it was going to be delivered in 6-10 days. Instead it took almost a month for him to receive it.

I have to send Nicodim a parcel, I always send him as non-priority/economy. It have 3 weeks to arrive, while his parcels to me took at leas 5 weeks for "priority". I say this because he already got my parcels this way.

Have any other US members here noticed a delay in receiving foreign mail/packages when sent through USPS; ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS) ? This is one of the USPS main mail centers where mail is distributed / collected once it arrives in the USA. I have had a package sitting here 8 days so far and no updates.

USPS Status looks like;

Priority Mail International Parcels

Processed Through Sort Facility
March 01, 2012, 9:34 pm
ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS)