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Airmail vs Economy
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lugnet.market.shipping
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Fri, 4 May 2001 19:03:04 GMT
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Recently, I sold some parts to a buyer in Australia. The package was supposed to
go airmail, but (apparently) went surface because the USPS clerk forgot to stamp
'Airmail' on the package. Airmail postage was paid for and applied to the
package. While the local postmaster has agreed to refund the difference, he is
still of the opinion that almost all mail from the US to Australia goes via
airlift. Although he said that 'economy' packages may go as 'space available'.
So this leaves me wondering, do overseas recipients actually see a difference in
delivery times for 'Airmail' vs 'Economy' (surface) ?
In this case, the package took 43 days to reach the destination.
Ray
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Message has 7 Replies:
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| (...) to (...) stamp (...) in (...) While I've only been on the receiving end, I can definitely say that there is a difference in speed between air and surface from Europe. In fact, I'm pretty sure that "small packets" (a size and weight restricted (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) I know that some services will use air to move between countries for both methods, but the local movement is what is different. For "Air" it would move by air for as much of the trip as practical, only using truck for the very start and end of (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) I'm in Australia and I recently completed a trade with a person in the US. I sent my parcel to the US via Economy Airmail and it took around 16 days. The parcel from the US was sent Surface and it took 63 days. Packages were about the same (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| From what I noticed with the new USPS pricing, they seem to be really pushing the "Global Airmail Letterpost", or what used to be called "Small-Packets Air". I've seen numerous times where the cost for airmail was actually less than surface, (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) The important issue is not the means of transport, but priority to use that certain means of transport, AFAIK. For the last three year, I have been ordering books from amazon.com every month, and I always prefer my order to be shipped via (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| Hi Ray & guys ! Well, with over 60 packages of (new & used) Lego sent to many (14) different countries worldwide over the last 10 months I guess I can add a few words about this issue ... (...) via (...) available'. This is exactly the same thing (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) 43 days seems reasonable to me. I once had a package of two full-sized and two over-sized [1] Lego sets sent to me via surface from Italy to the USA. It was during the December holiday package season and it arrived in 45 days of being sent. I (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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