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Re: Airmail vs Economy
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lugnet.market.shipping
Date: 
Sun, 6 May 2001 15:15:53 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shipping, Ray Sanders writes:
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.

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 size.

As far as I'm aware, surface US to Aus and vice versa really is surface.

Deidre
drb@tasmail.com



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  Airmail vs Economy
 
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. (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)

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