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Location: notts | should i start to worry.My guitar left los angeles, on the 27th.I rang parcel force in uk have no record of it. It has gone into the twlight zone ,i :confused: could have walked there faster so much for priotity postage.. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Don't know if this helps ya, but the two guitars I recently sent from Florida (eastern US) to Italy took 9 and 14 days. |
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Location: notts | makes me feel a little better but why call it prioity more like slow boat to china |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by stuart:
but why call it prioity ...marketing... |
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Location: NJ | "Priority"
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Location: notts | they take your monies and shove it on a ship full of of rubber dog sh*t bound for hong kong |
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Location: South of most, North of few | The government motto:
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Location: notts | tomorrow might never come |
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Location: notts | on a more serious note im thinking of buying the adamas 1 which is on the bay but need more funds.So was thinking of selling the wife for 2 camels and if there is a shortfall i have 4 children all with blonde hair to raise the remainder.. |
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Location: Scotland | If it's coming by USPS Global "Priority" US to UK takes 10 to 14 business days, and that's without any hold-ups at customs. Parcelforce will not be able to track it for you until it reaches them and is assigned a UK tracking number. The vendor may be able to provide a reference that will allow you to see current status from the USPS website. |
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Location: notts | yep got the parcel number left on 27th not arrived in uk yet what they shipping by micro lite |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
The vendor may be able to provide a reference that will allow you to see current status from the USPS website. Unfortunately, the USPS does not track overseas bound items once they leave the US. I tried to arrange that with my shipments.. no go. |
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Location: NJ | ". . the USPS does not track overseas items once they leave the US . ."
that sounds too much like "work"
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Location: big island | hmmmm...i was able to track the 2078T i just sent to london all the way there. it posted when it entered customs and also when it cleared customs yesterday. this morning, the tracking info shows the guitar was delivered on september 4th at 1:08 PM. i used usps express. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Lanaki, don't be fooled by the canned messages. By tracking we mean "tracking." While the "highlights" are nice, I recently had a package the "entered the system" 6 weeks later that's still all it said. After a trace it was confirmed that it may have made it to customs. After two months, it was back on my front porch with no explanation. That's not tracking.
However, the USPS is moving (within the next year or so) to a full fledged tracking system. It's in place in some area's already. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by cliff:
"work" Career Position Available:
Love to travel, seek open waters, willing to experience diverse cultures?
If you have a bar-code scanner, GPS, satellite data phone and a DHS clearance, do we have an opportunity for you!
Your duties would include:
- scanning USPS items on contracted ships once every 24 hour period
- determining global location of said items
- transmitting subsequent data to the USPS server, located in Delphi, India
Benefits:
- unlimited free Dramamine
- 50% of eBay selling price of all 'damaged' items
Contact your nearest grumpy lifer USPS Post Master for additional details, which of course means you won't get any additional information. |
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Location: notts | still think poor service i ordered a guitar out a shop in china arrived on my door step 3 days later now thats service |
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Location: big island | usps provided me with as much tracking info on this shipment as i've ever rec'd using ups or fedex. i was pleasantly surprised. |
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Location: notts | when did you post it 4th september 2007 do these people in london still live there :rolleyes: |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | I have to thanks Johnny (2ifbyC) for his incredible help in sending my guitar from Florida to Italy. By now I imported 4 guitars from the US. 3 of them arrived in 7/9 days. Last one (GC178LX... I love it...) get here today after 11 days. I should say 11 days 'cause USPS/IPS declare international shipment cleared between 6 and 10 "working" days.
Unfortunately we (who wait) include also the weekend in the calculation.
BTW ALL the guitars arrived safely and undamaged, that is the most important thing by now.
This coming weekend I will post some pics of the new baby.
THANK YOU JOHNNY !!
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | goimg from new york to australia can take up to 3 weeks. It seems like they put it on a truck, send it to LA, put it on a plane, send it to sydney, put it on atruck and send it to perth.
I'm guessing yours went in the opposite direction. LA to NY, via truck that's 5 days. NY to London by plane 1 day to sort, 1 day to fly, 1 day to sort. Then put on a truck and sent to the land of Notts where it must pass thru the black hole of customs. Don't worry, it'll get there. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | By the way ...
What guitar did you get from china? Any pics? |
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| There are so many ships coming from China I am pretty sure you could line them all up and put a roadbed on top and save the fuel. There must be a bunch of them doing the return trip empty. Not surprising that shipping from China is so quick.
Once that massive country gets going at full speed, they are going to require so much of the worlds food, fuel, and raw materials it will cause a worldwide crisis. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | NO, believe it or not they don't go back empty. You know all that stuff that they want us to recycle to "save the environment" and our resources? They load-it-up in containers and ship it to china! Really!
Then they use it to make more crap and ship it to us. Pretty smart, huh? |
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Location: big island | the WTC steel comes to mind. the gov't shipped it all to china before it could get properly inspected. who knows what china made out of it and then sold it back to us? |
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Location: NJ | The steel went to India . . . but, "same thing" . . . |
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Location: big island | india and china, but you're right "same thing"... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | At least 7.5 tons went into the USS New York !
Ship's motto: "Never forget" |
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Location: notts | submarines usps postal vans and good kareoke machines and not forgetting crap pickups |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | There are "Good Karaoke Machines"? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Amen! |
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Location: big island | i sent the EA-68 to aj tuesday afternoon. just tracked it to find it has already cleared australia customs and is ready for delivery. that was quick! |
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Location: big island | rick just emailed me from london. says he is "ecstatic" over the 2078T:
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Location: notts | usps what a joke the guitar is still in los angeles after 13 days must be luck of the draw if items get delivered they are as much use as a chocolate fire guard rubbbbbbbissssshhhhhh. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | When you're dealing with USPS you're dealing with the US government. 'Nuf said. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Gonna have to start callin' you 'Trader Randy' soon. |
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Location: notts | was hoping to find out if i like the sound of a 12 string because if i do there are several others i would like to purchase for now i will have to play air guitar |
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Location: notts | still no guitar but like, arthur says always tommorrow more like theirs aiways next month |
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