Postage announcement

[Corrosive]

I have just had a phone call from royal mail informing me that they will be unable to post to
Albania, Armenia, Barbados, bermuda, Bosnia, virgin Islands, cayman islands, cuba, Dominican Republic, equador, fiji, french Polynesia, grenada, guyana, haiti, india, Jamaica, Kuwait, lebanon, mali, Mauritania, Montenegro, Nepal, peru, phillipines, rwanda, samoa, south Africa, sri lanka, st lucia, st Vincent + Grenadines, Taiwan, tanzania, Tunisia, Zimbabwe

Forgive the spelling as this was done quickly over the phone!

I was posting to one of these countries and they have just issued me with a refund and cant tell me when to expect deliveries to be resumed.

I have also won another item from an auction which has been disallowed to enter the UK.

Please take this into consideration when doing deals on the forum,
Regards, Corrosive

[Agrawas]

Appreciate the update.
Will have to do some research to make sure we can keep the packages flowing!!

Hi MJ, there is a list at every usps with the countries that are banned from mailing. They didn’t have the extra print outs on friday but I’ll get it today once i go to drop off some packages.

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

See https://www.usps.com/international/mail-shipping-services.htm#readmore scroll down for countries USPS will not ship to right now

    Angola (4/7/20)
    Benin (4/7/20)
    Bolivia (4/3/20)
    Bosnia and Herzegovina (4/7/20)
    Botswana* (4/3/20)
    Burundi (4/10/20)
    Cameroon (4/7/20)
    Cayman Islands* (4/3/20)
    Chad* (4/3/20)
    Cook Islands (4/7/20)
    Costa Rica (4/7/20)
    Cuba (4/10/20)
    Curaçao* (4/10/20)
    Democratic Republic of the Congo (4/10/20)
    Ecuador* (4/3/20)
    Fiji* (4/3/20)
    French Polynesia* (4/3/20)
    Gambia (4/7/20)
    Guatemala (4/7/20)
    Guinea Bissau (4/10/20)
    Guyana (4/10/20)
    Honduras* (4/3/20)
    India (4/3/20)
    Kenya (4/10/20)
    Kiribati (4/10/20)
    Kuwait (4/3/20)
    Kyrgyzstan (4/7/20)
    Laos (4/7/20)
    Lebanon (4/7/20)
    Lesotho (4/10/20)
    Libya* (4/3/20)
    Madagascar* (4/3/20)
    Malawi* (4/10/20)

    Maldives* (4/3/20)
    Mauritius* (4/10/20)
    Moldova (4/7/20)
    Mongolia* (4/3/20)
    Mozambique (4/7/20)
    Nepal* (4/10/20)
    New Caledonia* (4/3/20)
    New Guinea (4/10/20)
    Panama* (4/3/20)
    Papua New Guinea (4/7/20)
    Paraguay (4/7/20)
    Peru* (4/3/20)
    Republic of the Congo (4/10/20)
    Rwanda (4/10/20
    Samoa* (4/3/20)
    Saudi Arabia* (4/1/20)
    Senegal (4/7/20)
    Seychelles (4/7/20)
    Solomon Islands (4/7/20)
    South Africa* (4/3/20)
    Sri Lanka* (4/3/20)
    Sudan (4/7/20)
    Tajikistan (4/7/20)
    Tanzania (4/7/20)
    Timor-Leste (4/7/20)
    Tonga (4/7/20)
    UAE (4/10/20)
    Uganda (4/7/20)
    Uruguay (4/7/20)
    Vanuatu (4/7/20)
    Venezuela (4/7/20)
    Zambia (4/10/20)
    Zimbabwe (4/3/20)

[Corrosive]

Nice list. By the looks of it, the main country to be affected in here will be India but hopefully this list doesn't get any larger!

Il update things on here if anything else comes to light

[andulolika]

Krogoth posted the list quite a while ago https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5237104.msg54212573#msg54212573 , seemingly it's getting worst too, I was recieving a package from a specific location in 6 days, latest took 3 weeks , seemingly they letting packages sit for like two weeks before handing them, hope this ends soon.
Edit: Was induced fear myself last time I sent a package but at the end that country was allowing packages, anyhow been bout 9 days and it hasn't arrived. It did leave the country as side note but it's still "on it's way"
Edit:
Well, it might of been a bunch of time but seemingly my package arrived, I feel content now .

[Corrosive]

Thats what i think is happening. I posted to Norway from the UK 3 weeks ago today and its still sitting at Norway customs. I would have expected shipping to be about 4 days maximum

[DaveF]

At a guess it's several things all due to COVID-19

Letting things sit for a bit to let the virus die.
Reduced staffing so things just take longer.
Social distancing so if there used to be 30 people in the customs clearing area are there now 10.

Annoying as hell. Even domestic here in the US is messed up. I did a raffle the other day and shipped yesterday, the 1st class receipt used to show estimated delivery time, now the clerk just told me probably about 5 days could be more or less no idea.

Stay safe.

-Dave

[ChiBitCTy]

Shipping has been pretty bad. Took nearly a month to leave the states headed for the UK..

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

Anyone have recent experience shipping UPS or FedEx from US to EU or back?

[Agrawas]

Anyone have recent experience shipping UPS or FedEx from US to EU or back?

I received fedex within 5-6 days from Poland. Unlike this one which still stuck in traffic problem from NL send by regular mail... Haha

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

Thanks @Agrawas good to know.

[cygan]

Shipping has been pretty bad. Took nearly a month to leave the states headed for the UK..

have any of the several shipments now already reached the recipient?
are there any news from usps when the shipment to the eu will take place again...?

[cygan]

are there any news from usps when the shipment to the eu will take place again...?

my usps-package was also in US-quarantine for 3weeks (5 Apr - 23 Apr) before it arrived in Europe. atm stuck in custom clearance

okay, interesting to read
because both my orders are still stuck in the states:

Status
In-Transit
March 14, 2020 at 5:55 pm

Processed Through Regional Facility

LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER

and the another one:

Status
In-Transit
April 19, 2020 at 2:11 pm

Processed Through Regional Facility

LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER

i hope that someday these packages will reach me...

[owlcatz]

Even domestic UPS stuff seems to be on a one day delay, at least here right now.

[DaveF]

So I sell stuff on eBay, last Friday someone won 3 different auctions from me (printer ink/toner) all the stuff is pre boxed and ready to go. I probably could have saved a bit by combining 3 packs into 2 but in the end it was just quicker to print 3 labels out and ship.

All left my office, Long Island NY Friday.
All were going to the same address in Texas.
1 was delivered just now, 2 are still sitting in the Dallas post office with delivery scheduled for........THURSDAY.

Yeah, 3 of the same size boxes coming from the same place going to the same place. Shipping is a bit FUBAR.

Stay safe.

-Dave

[ChiBitCTy]

Shipping has been pretty bad. Took nearly a month to leave the states headed for the UK..

have any of the several shipments now already reached the recipient?
are there any news from usps when the shipment to the eu will take place again...?

My item has still yet to of reached is destination point.  I've got a couple other items stuck in limbo too.  I honestly can't make sense of the way USPS is shipping thins at the moment.  I've sent out a few things while just using good old stamps and it's arriving to it's destination quickly.  Other things I'm paying extra for and it's not showing up until days after it was supposed to ( or it's still stuck in limbo ).  I guess we really shouldn't be surprised by any of this.

[M-BTC]

Shipping has been pretty bad. Took nearly a month to leave the states headed for the UK..

have any of the several shipments now already reached the recipient?
are there any news from usps when the shipment to the eu will take place again...?

My item has still yet to of reached is destination point.  I've got a couple other items stuck in limbo too.  I honestly can't make sense of the way USPS is shipping thins at the moment.  I've sent out a few things while just using good old stamps and it's arriving to it's destination quickly.  Other things I'm paying extra for and it's not showing up until days after it was supposed to ( or it's still stuck in limbo ).  I guess we really shouldn't be surprised by any of this.

Not as bad as yours but I have a package that has been sitting in LA for over a week now. Luckily its contents are not high value but I'd rather not use intercontinental shipping for now.

[Corrosive]

Not as bad as yours but I have a package that has been sitting in LA for over a week now. Luckily its contents are not high value but I'd rather not use intercontinental shipping for now.

Im at nearly 3 weeks for a package being held at LA now

[philipma1957]

Yeah I do a lot of buys and sells.

UPS
Fedex
DHL
USPS

5 to 10 a week in and out during shutdown.

Delays are common with all of the above Since mid March.

[M-BTC]

Not as bad as yours but I have a package that has been sitting in LA for over a week now. Luckily its contents are not high value but I'd rather not use intercontinental shipping for now.

Im at nearly 3 weeks for a package being held at LA now

Thanks for the pep talk . I doubt we'll have the same issues when using DHL/UPS etc. but I'd still rather not take the risk.