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I've seen so many times complaints on stamp forums regarding how slow the mail is. Well here is an example of speedy delivery. Postmarked in Austria on Monday morning February 16, 2015 and was in my mailbox at noon today Thursday February 19, 2015 Kudos for both the Austrian and Canadian Post employees.  |
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Kudos for both the Austrian and Canadian Post employees. Wow and NO PEN cancel...haha |
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Hoocha! That's fast, and I am impressed. I am still waiting for a letter to get from Egypt to Kazakhstan after over 2 years... Can your efficient Austrian colleagues teach the Egyptian postal authorities a few lessons? Please.
The best I have managed recently is 3 days from Tunisia to the UK, door-to-door. |
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Wow and NO PEN cancel...haha I have never seen any mail from Austria which wasn't properly cancelled. Guess they want to make sure they're not loosing money. |
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Tim H, mail to me from Austria takes anywhere from 3 days to a week or so. Our local mail here is also really good. Usually next day delivery from Toronto to my town which is 50K north of TO. From other provinces east or west we get mail normally within three to four days.(But we don't get much anymore  ) |
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I recently had an letter postmarked in Germany Feb 5....arrived in my mailbox in Ottawa, Canada before noon of Feb 8.
Quite impressive!...Takes that long for a letter from Ottawa to Montreal...about 150 miles away...now that's snail mail! |
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about 150 miles away. graphis at that rate over 3 days, the mail delivery truck was going at a speed of 4.1666667 MPH....  |
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wert....wish you had been my math teacher...the truck is not the problem.... but the processing at both ends. |
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wert....wish you had been my math teacher.. Sorry, I would make a bad math teacher..It is not 4.1666667 but 4.166666667 mph..  Quote:
the truck is not the problem.... but the processing at both ends . soooooo true...  If the delivery guy walked from one place to the next here is how fast he/she would walk.. A casual walk
is 2 mph, regular walking is 3 mph, fast walking 4 mph |
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| Edited by wert - 02/19/2015 6:51 pm |
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If the delivery guy walked from one place to the next here is how fast he/she would walk..A casual walk
is 2 mph, regular walking is 3 mph, fast walking 4 mph WertLetter carriers don't walk anymore, they all drive vans. |
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That is so true Lithograving. Now, we are the ones who have to do the walking in snow, rain, sleet etc. etc. etc. And in many cases, it is just to pick up and throw out flyers. |
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A few months back I bought a neat cover on ebay. 24c treaty rate to England paid by a block of 4 3c rose (#65). It took 15 days for that cover to get from Carlinville, Illinois to Selby, Emgland in the 1860s. In the 2010s? 13 days from Texas to New Jersey. Ahh, progress :) |
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I just received feedback from two UK buyers that they received a shipment I sent on 3/26 (last Thursday). That was just a plain, old first class letter shipment - it wasn't sent priority or express or anything like that. I'm impressed. |
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