USPS rates to go up July 12th (Sunday). Tis best to stock up on forever stamps by Friday or Saturday. They go from 78 cents each to 84 cents starting next week!

On July 8th I had a message from Royal Mail telling me that they would be delivering a Royal Mail tracked 24 service package and that it would be delivered between 11:10am-3:10pm. It is now 17:20pm on July 10th and I am still waiting for delivery (distance 300 miles). Cleary the heatwave we are experiencing here in the UK has fried their little brain cells as they obviously don't know what the 24 service means. I am not surprised by the lack of delivery as I am used to the poor service provided by my local delivery office. What has surprised me is that in the past whenever the delivery time zone has passed they always change it to the following day so they are covered if I make a complaint but they have done nothing this time. I know that the cards that are in the package were issued 1986 so the time delay in delivery is not of vital importance but surely complying with the time limit their own scheme imposes would matter. Interestingly an unrelated purchase made on Tuesday afternoon with a company in Cheshire (250 miles away) was delivered yesterday morning at 8:10 am but of course the delivery company was not the Royal Mail.

I am now only interested in finding out what excuse they will come up with.

Seems to be no rhyme or reason with regard to mail delivery.

Around June 15, I had four different UK dealers send me their Unstoppable promo cards. All seem to have been sent in the same manner.

1 of the UK envelopes came within 5 days of being sent. Another came within a week.

One came on July 9. The fourth one still has not come, almost a month later. Ironically, the missing one was the first of the four orders.

I bought a card in January from a Canadian seller but it never arrived. He refunded me when it hadn't arrived by March. It's made me nervous about buying or even trading with the unpredictable extra charge from the tariffs on top of it.

I mailed a package to the UK 153.00 in postage for the 10 day priority shipping on June 1st. It arrived on July 8th. During that time the USPS claimed no responsibility for it. The package arrived damaged but luckily all of the contents were in the box unharmed. Today, I got a notice from the USPS that they cannot find the box but will do their best to locate it. I could respond to it but I am just going to let them look (just kidding like they even looked in the first place).