a question to American folks about shipping

Northwinds · Post by **Northwinds** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:18 pm

mordred wrote:Every country on the planet seems to be able to deliver packages sent from Russia except the US but yet the Americans blame the Russian postal system.

I'll take that with a grain of salt. The Russian Postal Service has been under fire for many years, by their own citizens

http://rt.com/news/prime-time/russian-p ... cklog-922/

Got an answer for that? I am sure the seller could walk to Sweden in less then a week to ensure delivery

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:21 pm

Russian post http://www.russianpost.ru/rp/servise/en ... trackingpo accepts RA222907234RU just fine, showing that the package left Russia on Dec. 9th. The suffix RU shows it's a package from Russia, the prefix letters can be any combination.

Northwinds · Post by **Northwinds** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:24 pm

Khnud wrote:Russian post http://www.russianpost.ru accepts RA222907234RU just fine, showing that the package left Russia on Dec. 9th. The suffix RU shows it's a package from Russia, the prefix letters can be any combination.

What did you use for the barcode number? When I tried, you had to input two seperate numbers, the actual RA222907234RU plus a barcode number

Bar code:
Please enter the bar code
Enter the code:
Sorry, invalid code. Please, try again.

mordred · Post by **mordred** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:51 pm

Northwinds wrote:
mordred wrote:Every country on the planet seems to be able to deliver packages sent from Russia except the US but yet the Americans blame the Russian postal system.
I'll take that with a grain of salt. The Russian Postal Service has been under fire for many years, by their own citizens

http://rt.com/news/prime-time/russian-p ... cklog-922/

Got an answer for that? I am sure the seller could walk to Sweden in less then a week to ensure delivery

Just sayin'... the tracking number was perfectly traceable on the Russian Postal website. if the destination country had been Sweden it would have been traceable on the online service of the Swedish post as well but the US postal service don't seem to provide that service. The package evidently left Russia a month ago and there would be nowhere for it to go except the US so the question is why the USPS hasn't delivered it or can't track it. That being said it would also help if the Russian Post provided tracking of the shipment also after it left the country.

Northwinds wrote:What did you use for the barcode number? When I tried, you had to input two seperate numbers, the actual RA222907234RU plus a barcode number

Bar code:
Please enter the bar code
Enter the code:
Sorry, invalid code. Please, try again.

The barcode is the tracking number. The other code field is for the numbers you're supposed to enter to show you're human.

Troma · Post by **Troma** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:03 pm

mordred wrote: The barcode is the tracking number. The other code field is for the numbers you're supposed to enter to show you're human.

Northwinds · Post by **Northwinds** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:04 pm

I enter the "human" code and it does not work, tried 5 times with 5 different given numbers. Oh well, hope he gets his package back

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:48 pm

I have to agree with mordred here. I've never had issues receiving packages from russia and they take no longer to arrive then 3 weeks.

mordred wrote:That being said it would also help if the Russian Post provided tracking of the shipment also after it left the country.

This is true and I also touched on this a little bit earlier. Although, I cannot blame russia specifically for this issue as it seems to be a problem with nearly all postal websites. The tracking information is simply not updated after the package leaves the country or updates are quite delayed (normally after the package has already been delivered) so it's not of much use and you end up having to use the destination counties website.

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:28 pm

As far as I've heard, USPS have problems with tracking numbers as well. Lots of ebay sellers are complaining on other forums that even though they ship registered, the tracking ID's don't show up on USPS.gov because the employees at the post offices are too lazy/stressed to actually type in the IDs in the databse.

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:29 pm

Northwinds wrote:I enter the "human" code and it does not work, tried 5 times with 5 different given numbers. Oh well, hope he gets his package back

Be sure to remove the last space when typing in the "bar code" if you use copy/paste.

Northwinds · Post by **Northwinds** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:56 pm

Khnud wrote:As far as I've heard, USPS have problems with tracking numbers as well. Lots of ebay sellers are complaining on other forums that even though they ship registered, the tracking ID's don't show up on USPS.gov because the employees at the post offices are too lazy/stressed to actually type in the IDs in the databse.

There is some truth to this but I have only experienced a few instances and that was with Delivery Confirmation numbers only. It also has nothing to do with typing in numbers since they are barcode scanned at the receiving point, there is no typing involved. The problem is more with the main hubs (Springfield, MA is the worse). Since they started closing post offices and some main distribution centers, all the extra mail is processed by fewer facilities

Regarding the Registered Mail numbers... once it leaves the Country, USPS has no way to track numbers that have been changed to conform to the destination countries system. I think this is stupid but it is what it is

Igor · Post by **Igor** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:49 pm

as for experience I got throughout some years,,,
I can see my parcels/packages tracking/travelling out of Russia in all Scandinavia, Western Europe, Japan, South Amerian countries, even South Africa, but not USA

Khnud · Post by **Khnud** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:36 pm

Igor wrote:as for experience I got throughout some years,,,
I can see my parcels/packages tracking/travelling out of Russia in all Scandinavia, Western Europe, Japan, South Amerian countries, even South Africa, but not USA

I bet it is a form of retaliation to that Russian adoption ban on the US.

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:53 am

Iordan has said in the past that Registered Mail in the US is pointless because the USPS ships registered packages in the same containers as regular mail and therefore because it's all mixed in the same bins they cannot be scanned into the system. Sounds like a scam for the additional registration cost to me.

Northwinds · Post by **Northwinds** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:00 pm

Avenger wrote:Iordan has said in the past that Registered Mail in the US is pointless because the USPS ships registered packages in the same containers as regular mail and therefore because it's all mixed in the same bins they cannot be scanned into the system. Sounds like a scam for the additional registration cost to me.

This is not true. All Registered Mail goes into a locked bag

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:51 am

Northwinds wrote:
Avenger wrote:Iordan has said in the past that Registered Mail in the US is pointless because the USPS ships registered packages in the same containers as regular mail and therefore because it's all mixed in the same bins they cannot be scanned into the system. Sounds like a scam for the additional registration cost to me.
This is not true. All Registered Mail goes into a locked bag

Well, you can ask him about this then.