Everybody's numbers don't count the time they'll need to spend in line at the PO because it is an international shipment
Line? I occasionally have to wait a couple of minutes at my post office, but rarely longer. And if I had a scale at home, I could just put on the correct stamps and drop it in the post box at the end of my street.
Of course, American postal law is just strange. For example, it is apparently illegal to label a parcel going to a school, the contents of which will be used in a classroom, as "for educational use" unless the contents are textbooks. At least, the warehouse/shipping manager of a major American games company told me that.
(She also told me that missing parcels had to be traced from the recipient's end, not the shipper's, which Canada Post and Canada Customs found very strange.)
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Date: 2006-06-27 02:03 am (UTC)Line? I occasionally have to wait a couple of minutes at my post office, but rarely longer. And if I had a scale at home, I could just put on the correct stamps and drop it in the post box at the end of my street.
Of course, American postal law is just strange. For example, it is apparently illegal to label a parcel going to a school, the contents of which will be used in a classroom, as "for educational use" unless the contents are textbooks. At least, the warehouse/shipping manager of a major American games company told me that.
(She also told me that missing parcels had to be traced from the recipient's end, not the shipper's, which Canada Post and Canada Customs found very strange.)