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Originally Posted by motomomma317  As a mail mans wife he has told me time and time again once it leaves the US they don't really have any control over the packages. They rely on the other countries basic mail services as their fees.
We have always gone with fed-ex for over seas as well as UPS. We have several friends in the military that live off base that we mail things too. Altho some have gotten smart and gotten a APO shipping address on base to keep the cost down at bit.
As for the lack of being scanned lots of times offices just shuffle around large carts of mail that are being shipped over seas and it doesn't get scanned till its being loaded for flight. I believe they have the option to stop a package with notification, I say that b/c my husband was about to make a drop off of a package but when he scanned it he had a "hold" message pop up on his scanner.
You also may want to seriously think about your international shipping orders and if you benefit greatly for the sales. And stop being "nice" and start following a solid rule plan of you get what you pay for. People always take advantage of the nice ones. |
This makes more sense to me now. But wouldn't you think they'd send it back to me at least? Feels like they stole it from me now.
Just this past week was seriously like 80% international. I get worried, but I need to make the sales. esp when it's something that hasn't moved in a while.
I guess from what I've learned form this is do NOT ship to an unconfirmed address, and do not use the flat rate envelopes or small flat rate boxes.