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    Posted: January 18 2011 at 14:56

Is it just me or am I the only one who spots this trend with a steady decline in the mail and package delivery system ? In this day and age + with insane high mail and package sending prices, you should expect that letters and packages delivery is more reliable than ever. They even have bar codes now on packages. 

But no.

My national package services has managed to loose three corpses/bodies from Australia. Their whereabouts are unknown. 

Not in the same league, but I get a lot of tidbits and remarks from indiependent artists and bands who loose some packages they are sending out to their customers. Several artists has actually closed their webshops now due to this issue. Due to the postage services, and I use "service" here in a very liberal meaning of the word, is so unreliable that it cannot be trusted. Those of you in USA can use FedExpress and UPS. Those networks are not that big here in Europe though and their collection depots somewhere in faraway locations. 

In short; this is another nail in the coffin of the distribution and retailing of music CDs, LPs, cassettes and DVDs.

Are we all being forced over to broadbands, music downloads, computers and external harddrives ? 

Any comments ? 

   

 



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Send it through private companies.

I use UPS for anything besides letters. The sole problem I had was quickly followed by a refund and multiple apologies. I've also worked for them before. Grade A company.
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I agree, I've only had one instance of a lost package in the mail, and UPS did a thorough job making sure I was refunded for the order and kept informed on the status of the package.
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Points: 8621 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2011 at 15:15
I've never had a problem with our post. There will always be a place for package delivery. Letter post? The future seems less bright except for those specific cases where hard signatures are required on docs.

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Our US postal service has cost us almost $150.

Wonder if they'll let us take it out of our student loans.  Ermm
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As I said before, I still thing USPS is rather decent. But maybe, as I've said in the libertarian thread many times before, is because the service in my country is so horrible that I'm still baffled at the US' version's efficiency.

They should have more employees in their offices though... There's always a line.
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I think Royal Mail is pretty good. Always get what I order.
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I equate the USPS and private companies like UPS and FedEx or whatever you like in terms of how good they perform. Sure, I've had problems with the USPS, but I've had problems with the others as well. And, really, I use the USPS alot more often, so percentage wise they are probably better.
 
 
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I don't recall having any problems with the USPS.  But I have had problems with services in some other countries.
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I never had problems with "Serpost" 

I received at least 60 CD's during the  last 4 years and always complete and with a reasonable delay.

Seems that at least Peruvian Post works well.

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The postal service in Romania is awful, like any other public service there. In France, both the public mail and the private courriers work quite fine, I haven't had any problems so far. 
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Originally posted by toroddfuglesteg toroddfuglesteg wrote:

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USPS has never let me down .. well okay maybe once or twice in over 40 years, not bad
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I've never had a problem with USPS. Meh. 
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Works fine enough


UPS is good though.
However, having to deal with them at work...some of their drivers piss me off LOL


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There have been quite a few letters in the papers recently about people not receiving parcels. I guess there was a problem over Christmas with the snow impacting the service, but to be honest I send quite a few parcels out for eBay sales and have not had a problem yet.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I think Royal Mail is pretty good. Always get what I order.
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usually ok unless snow or Xmas disrupts things, but tracking important for anything over a tenner, i wonder what happens to all those lost parcels and letters though...Unhappy
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

I think Royal Mail is pretty good. Always get what I order.
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usually ok unless snow or Xmas disrupts things, but tracking important for anything over a tenner, i wonder what happens to all those lost parcels and letters though...Unhappy
 
 
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