Receiving International Shipments via USPS?

[frotog]

Good news Fragomeni! I hope you kept at least one of those horns for yourself....I still have my conn chu alto - love the way it plays... Happy New Year!

 

[AgX]

USPS does not offer a service, instead charges money for a shipping not done, refuse a refund, does not offer communication but tries to make a fool out of the customer.

I considered a claim at Postmaster General, but already spent so much effort and money that I finally I gave up.

 

[neilt3]

USPS provides reliable and affordable international delivery to more than 190 countries through Priority Mail International® service. Most Priority Mail International shipments include tracking and up to $100 in insurance with some exceptions.As with domestic shipping, USPS® tends to be the lowest-cost option. When you go this route, the USPS® will deliver your package to the customs office in the foreign country destination. From there (assuming everything is in order) the local postal service will deliver the package.

One can only surmise you work for USPS's PR department and have been instructed to track down all negative comments of them on internet forum's and try to add a positive spin ?
Even nine year old threads ?

Things must be worse than I thought !!

P.S , welcome to the forum !

 

[foc]

Even nine year old threads ?

Better late than never !

 

[neilt3]

Better late than never !

Yes , quite .
But you can't blame this delay on Covid !

 

[MattKing]

Better late than never !

Yes , quite .
But you can't blame this delay on Covid !

Or the Post Office?

 

[wiltw]

I hear all the problems associated with USPS, so I need to share my own recent experiences

1. All the products shipped TO me via USPS have gotten to me without issue; the postal carrier always rings the doorbell when the shipment does not fit into the mailbox at curbside. I got something from Thailand days sooner than I expected.
2. All of the products which I have sold, and shipped via USPS got to the 7 destinations on time and without problem
3. I have twice had claims of 'delivered' via UPS or Amazon that did not actually occur until 4-6 hours AFTER initial notification of delivery
4. I have had UPS shipments of products delivered to my next door neighbor rather than to my door
5. I have had multiple UPS and Amazon stated as 'Delivery Attempted, not home' when we were home at the stated delivery attempt time, and our doorbell did not ring.
6. I have seen products delivered to my neighbor acrossed the street, at curbside where it could readily stolen, rather than delivered to their porch 20' away (done by unknown shipping agency other than USPS)

 

[abruzzi]

I'll definitely take USPS over UPS any day of the week. FedEx beats them both though, in my experience. The other comment I'll make is in my experience, whether UPS, FedEx, or USPS sucks is very location dependant. Where I live UPS sucks. In Philadelphia, UPS sucks too, but I've talked to plenty of people in other location that have had very different experience. Another example--I live in a small town of 2000 people in New Mexico--Mesilla, we have our own postmaster for our little post office, and they give us free PO boxes because they don't deliver to homes. My brother lives 5 miles away in Las Cruces, a city of 150k people. Their post office sucks. My brother has had so many lost or misdelivered packages that he adamantly refuses to buy from anyone online that ships USPS. We both have the same regional distribution center--El Paso, TX--but my mail doesn't pass through Las Cruces, both post offices are served directly by the same regional office. So it is the way the local post office is run that can potentially create many of the problems.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I'll definitely take USPS over UPS any day of the week. FedEx beats them both though, in my experience. The other comment I'll make is in my experience, whether UPS, FedEx, or USPS sucks is very location dependant. Where I live UPS sucks. In Philadelphia, UPS sucks too, but I've talked to plenty of people in other location that have had very different experience. Another example--I live in a small town of 2000 people in New Mexico--Mesilla, we have our own postmaster for our little post office, and they give us free PO boxes because they don't deliver to homes. My brother lives 5 miles away in Las Cruces, a city of 150k people. Their post office sucks. My brother has had so many lost or misdelivered packages that he adamantly refuses to buy from anyone online that ships USPS. We both have the same regional distribution center--El Paso, TX--but my mail doesn't pass through Las Cruces, both post offices are served directly by the same regional office. So it is the way the local post office is run that can potentially create many of the problems.

Yes the USPS delivers, with occasional mistakes.
UPS has this habit of claiming to deliver and saying that I was not there, when in fact I was there waiting for that package. I call them and get on a line with the supervisor and I get excuses so I end up demand that he/she get the package from the driver and bring it directly to me. That usually clears the air, I get an apology and the supervisor agrees to have it delivered the next day and not have today counted as an attempted delivery day.
FedEx just bring it to my door and sometimes rings the bell if it large or requires a signature.

 

[wiltw]

Yes the USPS delivers, with occasional mistakes.
UPS has this habit of claiming to deliver and saying that I was not there, when in fact I was there waiting for that package. I call them and get on a line with the supervisor and I get excuses so I end up demand that he/she get the package from the driver and bring it directly to me. That usually clears the air, I get an apology and the supervisor agrees to have it delivered the next day and not have today counted as an attempted delivery day.
FedEx just bring it to my door and sometimes rings the bell if it large or requires a signature.

Ordinarily, in the past, they only rang the bell if they need a signature. Otherwise,they simply left the package at the front door, without even ringing the bell.
Over the past 15 months, with someone being home 24/7, there was never a time whan no one was home to receive a delivery, assuming they rang the bell.
Yet today, they will insist that they 'tried to deliver', yet not leaving the package at the door and going away without ringing the bell.
On multiple occasions, the report was 'attempted delivery', which was clearly a lie in view of the above facts.

Our USPS guy always rings the bell, whenever a package is left at the door. No lie about 'attempted to deliver'

 

[tom williams]

USPS provides reliable and affordable international delivery to more than 190 countries through Priority Mail International® service. Most Priority Mail International shipments include tracking and up to $100 in insurance with some exceptions.As with domestic shipping, USPS® tends to be the lowest-cost option. When you go this route, the USPS® will deliver your package to the customs office in the foreign country destination. From there (assuming everything is in order) the local postal service will deliver the package.

My experience with the USPS has been outstanding, with a couple of notable exceptions that occurred in the last two years. I was able to track a package using Portugese domestic mail service from the shipper to a US port-of-entry, where the US State Department (Customs I presume) received the package. That package was stranded in State Department warehouse for several months before it was released to the USPS for delivery, which duely occurred a few days later. No doubt the covid-19 situation affected the handling of international inbound mail at that time, and likely that problem has diminished. My point is, there is a failure mode in the international shipping sequence that does not involve the USPS, but the USPS is generally blamed for any delays once the mail hits the US shoreline.
Also much complained about: no USPS tracking is available for some international packages. The USPS does not track packages received from countries that haven't established tracking coordination with the USPS. Maybe the USPS requirements for establishing tracking coordination are too onerous, too high handed, or something else, I don't know, but if the agreement has not been established, tracking fails. The USPS maintains a list of countries party to tracking protocols.

 

[Peter Schrager]

Have,a package coming from silver print in England
Will be here Saturday a ND that's done in a week

 

[Sirius Glass]

My experience with the USPS has been outstanding, with a couple of notable exceptions that occurred in the last two years. I was able to track a package using Portugese domestic mail service from the shipper to a US port-of-entry, where the US State Department (Customs I presume) received the package. That package was stranded in State Department warehouse for several months before it was released to the USPS for delivery, which duely occurred a few days later. No doubt the covid-19 situation affected the handling of international inbound mail at that time, and likely that problem has diminished. My point is, there is a failure mode in the international shipping sequence that does not involve the USPS, but the USPS is generally blamed for any delays once the mail hits the US shoreline.
Also much complained about: no USPS tracking is available for some international packages. The USPS does not track packages received from countries that haven't established tracking coordination with the USPS. Maybe the USPS requirements for establishing tracking coordination are too onerous, too high handed, or something else, I don't know, but if the agreement has not been established, tracking fails. The USPS maintains a list of countries party to tracking protocols.

AusPost tracking gets added to USPS tracking on entering the US.