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Post by kevinkk on Feb 20, 2021 17:13:42 GMT -8
Just this week I was tempted to buy livestock from overseas, the listing said the moths wouldn't emerge for 8-10 weeks, so I emailed a breeder I trade with and asked if they wanted to split a shipment, cheaper in bulk, it seemed sensible. I was reminded of the craziness of shipping right now. In one screenshot, I was sent two different ones- hopefully the parcels contain something that can wait. 61 days so far, in transit from Germany, part of my reply, was "earth days?" sigh.  |
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Post by myotis on Feb 28, 2021 5:32:21 GMT -8
I had an overseas package just show up two days ago. It was sent in Oct.
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Post by livingplanet3 on Feb 28, 2021 7:16:22 GMT -8
I have NEVER seen the USPS running as slow as it is right now. I know someone who shipped a Priority Express package on Feb 9th, and it still hasn't been delivered yet! I myself have been waiting on a Priority package that was shipped last Monday - no location updates to the tracking after that day, has just said "In Transit, Arriving Late" as of the 26th. I heard that there are distribution centers backlogged with hundreds of thousands of packages. www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/02/22/usps-network-severely-disrupted-suspends-guarantee/ |
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Post by leptraps on Feb 28, 2021 9:30:39 GMT -8
You can thank the Democraps as door to door shipments now have time limits.
We should have term limits for politicians. 30 minutes once every other year or so.
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 28, 2021 10:24:51 GMT -8
I have NEVER seen the USPS running as slow as it is right now. I know someone who shipped a Priority Express package on Feb 9th, and it still hasn't been delivered yet! I myself have been waiting on a Priority package that was shipped last Monday - no location updates to the tracking after that day, has just said "In Transit, Arriving Late" as of the 26th. I heard that there are distribution centers backlogged with hundreds of thousands of packages. www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/02/22/usps-network-severely-disrupted-suspends-guarantee/I've never had an issue with a flat rate priority box, but there is an excuse (covid) for everything now, Right now, were dealing, or trying to deal with Social Security, to get through the backlog, they are only open 7 hours a day, except on Wednesdays, when they work 9 am to noon. The excuse- covid -19. I can see weather delaying parcels, but anything else is hard to swallow. |
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Post by kevinkk on Mar 5, 2021 11:05:48 GMT -8
Maybe it's shipping from overseas to here that takes so long, I sent a parcel to the UK on Feb 22nd, and it was received on 3-5,
just standard shipping as well. At any rate, I'm glad the buyers material arrived in what seemed to be a fairly normal amount of time.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 5, 2021 14:00:29 GMT -8
It's not just the USA, parcels from Thailand to Europe are taking longer than usual.
Adam.
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Post by leptraps on Mar 5, 2021 15:29:45 GMT -8
As many of you know, I am the owner of Leptraps LLC. I ship world wide. When I fill out the paperwork to ship an order, there is one word that will never ever appear on any documents,
label, Instructions, contents, packing slip on any documents envolved in shipping, That word "INSECT".... An absolute NO NO..... Put the words "Dried Insects". Someone in Customs is going to put it on "HOLD" and open your shipment and rummage through the contents. Wings for Artwork, Paper Wings work very well. Never ever use the word Insect.
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Post by kevinkk on Mar 5, 2021 16:43:32 GMT -8
As many of you know, I am the owner of Leptraps LLC. I ship world wide. When I fill out the paperwork to ship an order, there is one word that will never ever appear on any documents, label, Instructions, contents, packing slip on any documents envolved in shipping, That word "INSECT".... An absolute NO NO..... Put the words "Dried Insects". Someone in Customs is going to put it on "HOLD" and open your shipment and rummage through the contents. Wings for Artwork, Paper Wings work very well. Never ever use the word Insect. I ship a lot of homemade wool socks, worth 1 dollar. Which is exactly what the last package read. I learned the hard way that shipping even dead and dried insects overseas needs a permit after getting in an argument with a postal clerk, who read me some rules about live bees and ants?? I had to drive across town to a better post office, there was little choice at the time. Rules that make no or little sense, at least to me. I understand CITES and the reason for that. I've never known anyone or anything to be harmed by a dead insect, it's a tax in my opinion, and nobody is going to take the level of care I put into handling my materials, even here in the states, I get livestock in parcels I'd never consider putting into the post, although, I can't recall of a specific instance where those animals were damaged in transit. |
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Post by exoticimports on Mar 5, 2021 17:03:12 GMT -8
When I get was a kid we’d send insects and labeled every box EL INSECTO Y EL SCIENTIFICO ESTUDIO.
Of course that’s not proper Spanish. But you can read it. And so can every not Spanish speaker. Never had a problem.
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Post by jellybean on Mar 5, 2021 19:27:30 GMT -8
How is this for craziness: USFWL said to use FedEx to ship insects internationally. I called FedEx customer service and they said They don't ship DEAD insects because they are corpses!
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Post by Chris Grinter on Mar 8, 2021 10:02:02 GMT -8
Just this week I was tempted to buy livestock from overseas, the listing said the moths wouldn't emerge for 8-10 weeks, so I emailed a breeder I trade with and asked if they wanted to split a shipment, cheaper in bulk, it seemed sensible. I was reminded of the craziness of shipping right now. In one screenshot, I was sent two different ones- hopefully the parcels contain something that can wait. 61 days so far, in transit from Germany, part of my reply, was "earth days?" sigh. If you've imported live material into the US it may have been intercepted by USFWS. |
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Post by jshuey on Mar 8, 2021 11:23:30 GMT -8
Just this week I was tempted to buy livestock from overseas, the listing said the moths wouldn't emerge for 8-10 weeks, so I emailed a breeder I trade with and asked if they wanted to split a shipment, cheaper in bulk, it seemed sensible. I was reminded of the craziness of shipping right now. In one screenshot, I was sent two different ones- hopefully the parcels contain something that can wait. 61 days so far, in transit from Germany, part of my reply, was "earth days?" sigh. If you've imported live material into the US it may have been intercepted by USFWS. Indeed - since this is against the law.... But more likely USDA. john |
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Post by kevinkk on Mar 8, 2021 17:35:35 GMT -8
If you've imported live material into the US it may have been intercepted by USFWS. Indeed - since this is against the law.... But more likely USDA. john Yes, first, I was speaking of another trader, who I can only presume was waiting for non living material, secondly, I've never had any parcel intercepted by anyone, and would assume if that were to happen to someone, they'd know that's what happened. At any rate, shipping is still slow, and it looks like another season where using priority shipping is going to be a good idea even here in the states. |
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