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Re: 'Will ship to United States only - Oi!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.people
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:37:18 GMT
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Odd...just today I received a registered letter from Japan, and have in the
past from other countries as well (Estonia comes to mind, off hand). Had to go
to the post office and sign for it since I'm not home when they deliver. I
know that the USPS has different agreements with different international postal
services on issues like money orders as well--it must be that the USPS and the
British post don't see eye to eye on how to handle registered mail, because it
certainly appears that the USPS doesn't have a blanket policy against accepting
international registered mail.
Greetings,
Alan
> The interesting thing is, that whilst many of the replies to this have
> defended the USA postal service (words like 'Guaranteed'), it is
> disappointing that they do not seem to support any registered/recorded mail
> services coming in from overseas.
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> I have shipped lego to several countries that support registered mail that
> ensures the reciever signs for it, and I get a tracking number from the UK
> post office that enables me to follow its progress. This is for standard
> registered mail, not some expensive courier service. Except I cant do this
> when sending to the USA.
>
> I cant confess to knowing that every country except the USA supports this,
> but it is interesting that the USA is singled out on the UK post office web
> site as the one country that doesnt.
>
> regards
> lawrence
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| Hi Alan, I think you have to differentiate between registered letters and parcels. From Germany, I can send registered letters and "small parcels under 2kg" to the USA, however the product "insured parcel", i.e. for shipments over 2kg as well as (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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| "Ronan Webb" <rwebb@ehnospamaltavista.net> wrote in message news:G7su7w.2ts@lugnet.com... (...) The interesting thing is, that whilst many of the replies to this have defended the USA postal service (words like 'Guaranteed'), it is disappointing (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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