Sold some N-gauge wagons on eBay on Sunday evening, the customer paid for it overnight and I was able to ship on Monday morning a little before lunch.
Awesome? Well I think so - it was delivered to the purchaser in AUSTRALIA earlier today. Nice one Royal Mail and associated postal services!
John.
Maybe because it has closer ties with UK the postal service is better. Letters from UK to USA take 5 days :o(
peter
"naked_draughtsman" wrote
I've previously sent to Australia and the USA and it arrive within three days, but 5-10 days is the norm to both. Two days however is incredible, stuff I posted at the same time to UK addresses took as long!
John.
I've had very good experience of the mail service both to and from Australia. The UK-USA service in both directions however has gone right down the Garry Glitter in recent months. Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I don't. I get the impression they do a collection just one day a week and if you miss it you're stuffed.
(kim)
The Australian end was pretty bad a decade ago - but they have made major investments in automatic sorting which seems to have made a difference.
An PLEASE Gary Glitter - don't want him associated with the much superior two r's Garrys
My experience down here is that one week (5 working days) is typical in either direction - so two days is, as you say, awesome.
Forty years ago, when I first came to Canada, airmail to and from the UK took a maximum of 3 days. Now 5-7 days is the norm. You could also post a letter up to 7:30 p.m. and count on it being delivered locally the next morning; now they advertise 2 days for local delivery, with the last and only collection Mon-Fri at 4 p.m., or in some places 11 a.m.
Over the same period, overseas postage has increased by a factor of 10, while transatlantic phone rates have dropped by up to 98%.
MartinS said the following on 13/07/2006 15:25:
It's called progress, guv. Where would we be without it? Without progress, we'd still be where we were 40 years ago...
...and getting our post much quicker :-)
I am lucky to get anything in under a week and it has reached 4 weeks (in both directions) whenever either country has a bank holiday - stuff missed gets lowest priority on the restart.
Peter A Montarlot
Try posting a letter or small package to Republic of Ireland. The last 3 I sent 1st class took 10 days and it takes at least 5 working days to recv one. I live nr Heathrow and know that the item left the UK on the day it was posted via airmail. so Oz service is fantastic.
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