Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My experience is that there are some stations and carriers that are worse than others. Try another office. Ric On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote: > Hi Jim: > > I haven't had any trouble mailing film via Priority Mail since I > switched to their small flat box, the one just a little bigger than > a VHS tape. > > You can go to the USPS web site... Priority Mail Supplies and click > on: > Priority Mail Small Video Box (0-1096S) > > Your mail carrier will deliver a group of 10 or 20 boxes to you in > less than 2 weeks... no charge. > <http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductCategoryDisplay?beginIndex=0&pageSize=10000&langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10152&categoryId=13354 > > > > or: http://tinyurl.com/yyfr8k > > Jim H. > > > > Jim Shulman wrote: > >> One of the more recent frustrating aspects of an unhealthy >> attachment to >> film photography has nothing to do with the rising price of film or >> the >> delay between image capture and image viewing: it's the US Postal >> Service. >> Over the past few months I've had unconscionable delays (and on one >> occasion, as loss) in film shipments, both to and from labs. These >> have >> included: ruptured envelopes (using the USPS's envelopes provided >> for >> Priority Mail), delays of up to a month, and in one case film just >> MIA >> (fortunately it was a test roll of a new camera and lens, so nothing >> monumental was lost--if you could consider anything I shoot to be >> monumental.) In almost all cases I've double-wrapped my film--the >> film goes >> into one USPS envelope, and that envelope into a larger one. All is >> Tyvek-encased, taped to a fare-thee-well, and yet still moves with >> the speed >> of Lincoln's funeral cortege at a premium rate. >> The strange part is that I've just started having this problem >> during the >> past few months. For years I sent film zipping back and forth >> across the >> country at lightning speed, without complications. For those few >> remaining analog fans, has anyone else experienced similar >> recent problems? >> Jim Shulman >> Bryn Mawr, PA >> Whose tacky 8mm color movies of the Mermaid Parade finally made it >> to the >> lab after a SIX DAY JOURNEY AT PRIORITY MAIL RATES. >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information