Re: [CR]In praise of the USPS and Wishing Jan Heine good luck

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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:33:18 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]In praise of the USPS and Wishing Jan Heine good luck
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In-Reply-To: <20050108162230.69472.qmail@web81002.mail.yahoo.com>


Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> I agree. In the last 6 or 8 years, I've had better luck with USPS
> than with UPS. During the UPS strike a few years ago, the fill-in
> UPS guys left a parcel containing perishables in front of an
> outbuilding, 50 yards away from my house, where I discovered it a
> week later. I switched to USPS, who I thought performed very well in
> their big opportunity during the UPS strike, and I've contunued to
> use them ever since. The problems I've had receiving stuff from
> Germany and Holland (or Netherlands for the nitpickers) I put down to
> the US Customs Service, not USPS.

I'll throw in my agreement as well. I recently sold a jersey to a fellow in the Netherlands -- I sent it out on 20 December via Global Priority Mail and he wrote back that he received it on 24 December in the Netherlands, just in time for Xmas!

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA