Thread: Ten days. No razor

Originally Posted by Phoenix51

So, I bought a Rafl Aust 6/8 on May 17 directly from.Herr Aust. All seemed to go well. Payment of €160 was made to Herr Aust via PayPal on May 17. He sent it May 20. Seemed to clear US Customs and departed a sorting station in NYC on May 25. Figuring that May 26 as a holiday it has now taken six days to NOT YET make it to Central Florida from NYC.. As I got a.package sent from.Mission, KS in 2 days, you gotta wonder
I sent some e-mail to Herr Aust. Hopefully he can help somehow. Anyone else have any suggestions,? Thanks.

I know of your frustration! I do a lot of shipping using the USPS and in general I truly feel that they do an outstanding job! However there are occasions that make me crazy! Check out this 'adventure'! Please scroll down to the end of my original post to see how it got to me and then check out how it was sent back!

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...forgotten.html

Hang in there! I'm pretty certain that all will arrive safe and sound!

If you have tracking, and it shows in the search, you're going to get it eventually. I've had good luck and not so good with international shipping. I sent something to the Russian Federation, using the new thing where ebay is the go between, and ebay said estimated delivery was 6 weeks !. It got there in 4 but just saying. I've ordered books from sellers in the UK and they can take a few weeks or a month to get over here. Shipping and receiving stuff from Canada to or from the USA can also take what seems like an inordinate amount of time. Good news is a Ralf Aust is a fine razor if the example I got from SRD is typical of the breed.

Why not ask the USPS?

About the closest city to me in the US lower 48 is Seattle. I once had a package ship from Seattle the same day I had a package sent from the UK. The parcel from the UK beat the other one by almost three weeks. It happens, you just need to be patient. Mail has its own rhythm.

Originally Posted by gugi

Why not ask the USPS?

I did receive my razor...and it's really nice. Here's the irony (if one chooses to call it that). I took the advice of gugi. Went to the local post office, gave them the tracking number (Registered mail-requires a signature each time it changes hands they told me). They advised they had yet to receive it (no record of any transfer from one location to the other either..tracking showed it somewhere "en route" from a postal facility about 100 miles away). OK..no worries.

Three hours later-letter carrier at the door with the package. USPS...always an adventure.

For the record, I have no complaints. I'm one of those "as long as it works out in the end" sort of people.

Originally Posted by Phoenix51

They advised they had yet to receive it (no record of any transfer from one location to the other either..tracking showed it somewhere "en route" from a postal facility about 100 miles away). OK..no worries.

Three hours later-letter carrier at the door with the package. USPS...always an adventure.

I think that these express packets travel through a separate channel, but once they are near you it's very quick. I have had some international packages this way and there is a completely different truck with a completely different guy who show up at completely different times than the normal delivery person.
They seem to be more like a courier service - come up to my office in my building just like the express ups/fedex instead of leaving it with the internal delivery guys. They also seem to always be quite in a hurry.

It doesn't seem to mattered in your case but if something takes longer than it should I've found it useful to ask USPS to look for it, after all they've got it and they have all the tracking even the stuff that's just internal and doesn't show up in the online tracking tool.

Enjoy your razor.

I have only tried shipping to Canada once ,,(maybe it was you stevethecanuck) but I think next time ill just drive to the border and throw it over to someone or launch it with a slingshot ,, I cant believe how much time a government system can take , we can send it 2000miles in country in 3 days ,, maybe 2, (that's how long it takes pixels items to get to me ) but just over the border not 850 miles from me takes weeks crazy!!!!!!!! sorry about the rant tc

Canadian Border Services is the worst bureaucracy ever. They are so wrapped up in their importance and power they have lost the concept of efficiency. It is a sad sad statement because it's true. I could get a crazy ant going but will leave it there, for now.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

I have only tried shipping to Canada once ,,(maybe it was you stevethecanuck) but I think next time ill just drive to the border and throw it over to someone or launch it with a slingshot ,, I cant believe how much time a government system can take , we can send it 2000miles in country in 3 days ,, maybe 2, (that's how long it takes pixels items to get to me ) but just over the border not 850 miles from me takes weeks crazy!!!!!!!! sorry about the rant tc

Don't think it was me but yeah, CBS can be brutal. So canUSPS.