[Leica] Mailing from Canada

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Geoff,

I have found the post, at least the USPS, to be far more efficient than DHL, 
or UPS/FedEx.  Cheaper also.  A package we sent to Anna in Germany arrived a 
week after we sent it from Iowa.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
>
> Yikes! Three days from California to delivered to my door in Australia with
> express post. Tony Rose tested it for me, purely for LUG informational
> purposes, ahem.
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Mailing from Canada
> 
> Yes, our last German daughter, Anna, (Cologne) sent a christmas gift box to
> our daughter in Texas via DHL.  She shipped it mid October and it arrived 
> in
> Texas the end of February.  DHL has a long way to go in the efficiency
> department.
> 
> Gene
> 
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Howard Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com>
> >
> > That reminds me of the under insured courier mailing of my first M8  
> > from Huntsville, Ontario, to Solms - it took from early August until  
> > nearly the end of September and was finally only resolved by me  
> > dealing with the office of the President of DHL.
> > Cheers
> > Howard
> > On 25 Apr 2008, at 8:40 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:28:11 +0000
> > > From: grduprey@mchsi.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Any recent experiences mailing from Canada to
> > >   France?
> > > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > >
> > > Vick,
> > >
> > > How did you send it?  If by DHL, it could take 3 months or  
> > > longer...This from actual experience from Iowa to Germany.
> > >
> > > Gene
> > 
> > 
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