Carey Fisher wrote:

> If they knew the REAL truth, they wouldn't offer the service at all with 
> a straight face.  Two out of four shipments in the last year got 
> permanently lost between the USA and South Africa.  

A package with (among other items) my mom's cookies got "lost" from Germany
to Brazil :)

> USPS states "yep - we have a record that you sent it but we have no
> further record of it...".  What kind of BS is that?  

It's the kind of BS that results from the individual national postal
services not having a decent tracking interface to each other. Many,
probably most, postal services have most of what would be needed
internally, but they don't interface well their internal "features" with
other countries' postal services. Put customs in the middle, with their
general attitude of "we are not answering to anybody", and all bets are
open.

Gerhard

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