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But it never crossed my mind the letter would go on a long vacation to the Bahamas and even go swimming in the ocean.
It was evident the letter had been thoroughly soaked at one point or another.
The right pane of stamps was completely detached from the cover and was left in my mailbox as a separate piece!
As evident there is discoloration of the cover and the stamps had left a curious imprint on the cover under them.
Way too much sunbathing !
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07:47:06am
Well, you gotta admit the two places sound the same CA-NA-DA BA-HA-MA 
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I am still waiting for a package shipped from Virginia, USA three months ago. According to the tracking info it was last seen in China... Entirely logical, USA to the Netherlands via China.
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Canada Post was too lazy to put the mail in the mailbox, so they left it leaning against the door of our stamp shop. Canada Post's new motto is "When it absolutely, positively, doesn't have to get there".
We've been using FeDEX more and more.
David Giles
Chris Green Stamps
Ottawa, Canada.
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"According to the tracking info"
I assume the package has the new customs label on it as well as a tracking label!
The customs label tells everybody what is in the package and the value of the contents. The addition of a tracking label is also a flag! An open invitation to the thieves.
If a counter clerk makes an error when inputing the details on the tracking label, for example the code for Australia instead of Austria then the package heads off to the wrong destination!
For sending stamps keep it down to 70-75 stamps, then they go in a small envelope, the postage cost is small, no customs form fits on the envelope and Hey Presto 99.99% get through to their destination.
Small is Beautiful!
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I have discovered that there are now two types of customs labels. One with a bar code and one without. The one without is for packages that are to be signed for as there is a bar code on the signed for label.
It may be that a package with a customs bar code and a signed for barcode could end up being sent to the wrong place?
Isn't technology wonderful?
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About 30 years ago I had to close on a house to avoid the expiration of my mortgage rate lock! The mortgage company was ten miles away. They swore they put the closing package in the mail to my attorney, but it never arrived! It should've taken a day!
On the very last day of my lock, I physically went to their office where they redid the entire package. According to law, I wasn't allowed to have the package, but they gave it to me anyway to deliver to my lawyer so we could close!
Original package showed up a month later. It had been vacationing in Puerto Rico! Red Bank, New Jersey to Hazlet, New Jersey via the islands! Go figger!
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"It had been vacationing in Puerto Rico! Red Bank"
I will vote for the following change to the postal service policies:
If a letter ends up in some exotic destination by whatever mistake, the recipient of the letter is entitled to an all inclusive vacation in that destination for the entire duration the letter spent there.
I would be happy to spend 4 months in the Bahamas vacationing......but if my luck is not that good, Puerto Rico will do.
A letter like mine featuring stamps with James Cook and a ship could have easily traveled to the Cook Islands by ship.
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But suppose a letter was mis-sent to Thule, Greenland or Clyde River, in November. When I was there the plane with fresh veggies and mail flew in monthly unless the weather was closed in, and the supply ship came only in June.
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This letter was mailed by an SOR member to me on March 9th. I thought it had vanished somewhere in the postal system.
But it never crossed my mind the letter would go on a long vacation to the Bahamas and even go swimming in the ocean.
It was evident the letter had been thoroughly soaked at one point or another.
The right pane of stamps was completely detached from the cover and was left in my mailbox as a separate piece!
As evident there is discoloration of the cover and the stamps had left a curious imprint on the cover under them.
Way too much sunbathing !
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05 Aug 2021
07:47:06am
re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
Well, you gotta admit the two places sound the same CA-NA-DA BA-HA-MA
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I am still waiting for a package shipped from Virginia, USA three months ago. According to the tracking info it was last seen in China... Entirely logical, USA to the Netherlands via China.
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re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
Canada Post was too lazy to put the mail in the mailbox, so they left it leaning against the door of our stamp shop. Canada Post's new motto is "When it absolutely, positively, doesn't have to get there".
We've been using FeDEX more and more.
David Giles
Chris Green Stamps
Ottawa, Canada.
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07:27:41pm
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re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
"According to the tracking info"
I assume the package has the new customs label on it as well as a tracking label!
The customs label tells everybody what is in the package and the value of the contents. The addition of a tracking label is also a flag! An open invitation to the thieves.
If a counter clerk makes an error when inputing the details on the tracking label, for example the code for Australia instead of Austria then the package heads off to the wrong destination!
For sending stamps keep it down to 70-75 stamps, then they go in a small envelope, the postage cost is small, no customs form fits on the envelope and Hey Presto 99.99% get through to their destination.
Small is Beautiful!
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08:26:11am
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re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
I have discovered that there are now two types of customs labels. One with a bar code and one without. The one without is for packages that are to be signed for as there is a bar code on the signed for label.
It may be that a package with a customs bar code and a signed for barcode could end up being sent to the wrong place?
Isn't technology wonderful?
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re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
About 30 years ago I had to close on a house to avoid the expiration of my mortgage rate lock! The mortgage company was ten miles away. They swore they put the closing package in the mail to my attorney, but it never arrived! It should've taken a day!
On the very last day of my lock, I physically went to their office where they redid the entire package. According to law, I wasn't allowed to have the package, but they gave it to me anyway to deliver to my lawyer so we could close!
Original package showed up a month later. It had been vacationing in Puerto Rico! Red Bank, New Jersey to Hazlet, New Jersey via the islands! Go figger!
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re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
"It had been vacationing in Puerto Rico! Red Bank"
I will vote for the following change to the postal service policies:
If a letter ends up in some exotic destination by whatever mistake, the recipient of the letter is entitled to an all inclusive vacation in that destination for the entire duration the letter spent there.
I would be happy to spend 4 months in the Bahamas vacationing......but if my luck is not that good, Puerto Rico will do.
A letter like mine featuring stamps with James Cook and a ship could have easily traveled to the Cook Islands by ship.
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15 Aug 2021
02:28:06pm
re: The letter that took 5 months between USA and Canada
But suppose a letter was mis-sent to Thule, Greenland or Clyde River, in November. When I was there the plane with fresh veggies and mail flew in monthly unless the weather was closed in, and the supply ship came only in June.
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