Andy Pastuszak
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Jul 11, 2018 16:29:56 GMT
I ordered some stamps back in June from a private seller in Ukraine via eBay. In general things take about 2 weeks to get here via UKRPOSHTA.
This is the way mail usually gets to my house. It arrives by plane in New York City. That same day, it usually arrives at the Philadelphia Regional sorting center by the Philadelphia Internationa Airport. Overnight, it shows up at my post office and it's out for delivery the next day. So, from arrival in the US, to my door it usually overnight, at MAX 2 days.
Well, tracking shows that these stamps I ordered arrived in New York City on July 1st, 2018. Then no tracking information of any kind until the 7th of July, when it arrived at the Philadelphia Regional Distribution Center. Then on the 8th it arrived at ANOTHER Philadelphia Regional Distribution Center (which I have to assume is the one in Northeast Philadelphia). On the 9th and 10th it says "In transit to next facilty," which means it is NOT on it's way to my post office. If it was on it's way to my post office, it would have said "In transit to destination."
I called USPS to see if they can figure out what the hell is going on with this package and the "current hold time" was 2 1/2 hours. So I hung up.
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Jul 11, 2018 17:32:34 GMT
Same thing with mail from Postbeeld (.com). If I have tracking enabled (€16.00) it takes 2 weeks, otherwise it takes 2 months!
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Andy Pastuszak
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Praying for my family and everyone in Ukraine.
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Jul 11, 2018 18:12:14 GMT
Same thing with mail from Postbeeld (.com). If I have tracking enabled (€16.00) it takes 2 weeks, otherwise it takes 2 months! I have tracking enabled. The USPS website says expected delivery date is 6/24. But it's probably within a 30 minutes of my house somewhere now. A little concerned the label has fallen off the thing. I have had that happen before. |
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Poodle_Mum
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What I collect: WW to 1950; All German Eras; Imperial Russia & USSR; All Occupations and Colonies of Germany and Russia; Canada; QV and Belgian Railways
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Post by Poodle_Mum on Jul 12, 2018 22:23:49 GMT
I once had a packet sent from a town about an hour from me in Southern Ontario (Canada). It was sent to Montreal, then to Winnipeg. From there it traveled to North Dakota in the U.S., then Chicago, then Buffalo, back to Canada to Toronto and then my home. Three weeks that sucker was in transit and I could have driven an hour to pick it up! Lol
Another letter was sent from Ottawa, Ontario to Los Angeles, California to South Africa to England then back to Canada and finally to my home. One month in transit and Ottawa is about 7 hours from me.
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renden
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What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Jul 13, 2018 0:12:57 GMT
Certainly the funniest stories on "stamp travellings" LOL - René
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Jul 16, 2018 6:11:29 GMT
2 1/2 years in transit - it can happen! from Facebook
a long long time ago, October 2015, I purchased a good handful (and then some) Turangi fundraiser coins from Sophie Armitage as geocachers back home in Denmark thought they were _amazing_.After getting home in November '15, I shipped the coins to their new owners up here, but alas.. one shipment didn't make it.. until now!
Earlier today, there was a knock on the door at the (until now) unlucky receiver - the package had slipped into a little hiding spot in the mail-truck and had remained hidden until a few days ago when said truck got a major deep clean. a little over 2½ years on the way 
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Andy Pastuszak
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Praying for my family and everyone in Ukraine.
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Aug 11, 2018 16:49:04 GMT
The stamps eventually arrived. But they did bounce around a lot between post offices.
I once had a package make it to my local post office and it just at there. I waited for almost a week then finally called them. They said they had it. The label had fallen off of it and they didn't know where to deliver it, so they held it, since there was no destination or return address. Just the tracking number barcode.
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Beryllium Guy
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps 1840-1930
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 11, 2018 21:25:24 GMT
2 1/2 years in transit - it can happen! a long long time ago, October 2015, I purchased a good handful (and then some) Turangi fundraiser coins from Sophie Armitage as geocachers back home in Denmark thought they were _amazing_.After getting home in November '15, I shipped the coins to their new owners up here, but alas.. one shipment didn't make it.. until now!
Earlier today, there was a knock on the door at the (until now) unlucky receiver - the package had slipped into a little hiding spot in the mail-truck and had remained hidden until a few days ago when said truck got a major deep clean. a little over 2½ years on the way OK, well, 2-1/2 years in transit is, indeed, an exceptionally long time! I am glad to hear that at least Andy ( Andy Pastuszak) finally got his stamps, too. As for me, I am concerned because I mailed an envelope full of stamps from the US in March before I moved to France to Londonbus1 in Israel, but he has never received them. It has now been more than four months, so I am beginning to think that they may never arrive, which would be a very sad thing. Frankly, Michael, that's the reason that I have been holding these other stamps that I have for you until your visit--I have lost my faith in the postal services to deliver the goods, and I didn't want this latest material to go astray.... or end up in the bowels of some postal truck for a couple of years! |
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clivel
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What I collect: Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Rhodesias, South Africa, Swaziland, Israel to 1980, Ireland predecimal, Palestine Mandate
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Post by clivel on Aug 11, 2018 22:41:12 GMT
Bear with me if at first this seems off topic. Eight SAPOA (Southern Africa Postal Operators Association) countries released their first joint issue in 2004. These attractive mini-sheet which consisted of 8 bird stamps were identical other than for monetary unit and country name. Some were issued in very limited numbers, for example Zambia issued 3000, Malawi 2000 and bringing up the rear was Swaziland with only 1000 sheetlets issued.
As I actively collect some of the countries involved, even though pre-independence, I thought that it would still be nice to try and assemble a full set. Unfortunately I only became aware of these issues some months after they were released so it seemed unlikely that I would still be able to purchase them directly from the relevant post offices especially with regard to Swaziland.
Nevertheless determined to get my hands on one I emailed the philatelic section of Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications to query if they still had any available and if so what would the cost be for 2 mini-sheets as well as an FDC including post and packing to Canada.
A few days later I received a response requesting that I send US$10 cash to the attention of the writer, and in return, depending on the prevailing exchange rate, he would send me an unspecified number of sheetlets and FDCs.
I was a bit taken aback by this unorthodox arrangement but nevertheless went ahead and popped a US$10 banknote into the post half expecting that to be the end of it.
After a few months, not having received anything, I emailed the person I had been dealing with to ask if the money had arrived but my email went unanswered. I eventually chalked it up to experience and moved on to better things.
Over a year later a large brown official envelope with the words "On His Majesty's Service" boldly emblazoned across the top arrived in the mail. Inside were three of the mini-sheets and two FDCs. What an unexpected surprise.
I currently have 7 of the 8 sheets. Angola still evades me, but with one currently listed on eBay for US$400 it is likely to remain that way.
Clive
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Post by carabop on Aug 28, 2018 4:42:00 GMT
Someone had sent me some stamps and it took 22 months to arrive in my mailbox. I don't remember where they were sent from now but both the sent from and my mailbox are in the US. I actually thought the person hadn't sent the stamps but one day there they were in my mailbox. You could see the envelope had quite a journey and even had been wet. But I have to say the stamps arrived in very good shape.
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