I had a small package shipped to my PO Box. Tracking said it was delivered last Tuesday. It never was placed in my box. Today I went to the counter and the clerk went and found it for me.

Still waiting for 2 of the 3 envelopes mailed to me from UK on Aug 27. One came Sept 4. No sign of other 2

Just refunded another order, post office officially lost 33% of the items I sent 2 weeks ago. This is why sellers have $5 or $6 shipping on single cards.

The 2 envelopes from the UK sent on Aug 27 have, to date, not arrived

However, I've had a bunch of other envelopes mailed to me from the UK in Sept and Oct and they all came within a week to 10 days.

Buyers I sent cards to at the end of June are only now receiving them. The good news is that the bottleneck is easing, and USPS deliveries are progressing.

This is not the post office, but UPS

Bought $ 90 worth of cards. Seller prepared the package on Oct 22 and allegedly gave to UPS driver

Sent with tracking. Supposed to be 2-3 day delivery

Tracking says driver never received. Waiting for pick up. No idea where it is

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I had to stop getting packages at my Po Box about 6 months ago. They would get to the station and "disappear" or I would have the clerks find them in different boxes. Finally one of the clerks said, "you know the person hired to box the packages can't read, so everyone needs to cut her some slack". 1. How the heck did she get a job at the post office. 2. Why give her a job that the main thing they have to do is read labels?

End of story, I get all my packages sent to my house because I cannot trust the workers at my PO box station.

This one is not so much what the post office do, but what they charge. I'm bidding on a card at the moment - it's reached the dizzy heights of $9.50, although I expect it to be much higher - and the charge for sending it to me is US $63.32 USPS Priority Mail International. Are the stamps now gold plated, is it the President's doing, or is it that price because they can?

It's the USPS pricing. Not sure why it would be that high as they can use a Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope and the price is $30.90 to send to the UK. There is also 1st Class International Package that is just $17.85. Both of the above come with tracking.

They could also send via 1st class international letter for $1.70. No tracking on that. I bought a card from Canada to the US and the seller sent it just regular 1st class letter. Arrived in 9 days.

So there is no reason for the price to be that high, unless UK customs is charging you a fee for the card.

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Originally posted by Chilly55:

So there is no reason for the price to be that high, unless UK customs is charging you a fee for the card.

The postage fee is set by eBay and has nothing to do with customs charges and value added tax which are charged separately.

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Originally posted by Graham:

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Originally posted by Chilly55:

So there is no reason for the price to be that high, unless UK customs is charging you a fee for the card.

The postage fee is set by eBay and has nothing to do with customs charges and value added tax which are charged separately.

Ebay sets postage fees? When did that start?

As a follow up on this, the package sent Oct 23 via UPS is still in limbo. Tracking says awaiting pickup from the sender, but the Seller clearly mailed it to me.

He sent me a replacement last week and that came within 3 days.

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
This is not the post office, but UPS

Bought $ 90 worth of cards. Seller prepared the package on Oct 22 and allegedly gave to UPS driver

Sent with tracking. Supposed to be 2-3 day delivery

Tracking says driver never received. Waiting for pick up. No idea where it is

As far as I know if you buy through E Bay they set the shipping.
1 order 1 payment shippig included no hassle item recieved.
I can not understand the UK customs .Here in NZ we pay GST %15 on total price added by E Bay to final account.EG Item price GST added total ammount to pay no hassle go to Pay Pal
I think we only have to pay duty on items over $1000 never got that far yet.
E Bay add it on to the final A/C and happy as you recieve your card .
Do you have to pay extra customs on top of GST or whatever it is called in the UK.?