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so, am guessing customs, pilferage.."
That's what I'm guessing too.
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I never heard anything and was to have arrived in a week...months ago.."
IDK what's happening on various Post Offices worldwide, but it would seem that recently there have been issues with them!
It's been over two months I've been waiting for a parcel from Belgium (a couple of busts bought to a fellow PF Forum member here on the Market & Commissions), shipped there by the end of October... 2018, and still no news whatsoever!
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but then we have been thru strikes and labour troubles with our post, so...sucks they disappeared.."
There have been strikes on Belgian PO as well, not here that I'm aware of.
But why do things "disappear"/"get lost" when/during strikes?!... Is there a relation, a cause > consequence effect? I don't seem to find one, but who knows?
Within the EU, over two months it's far too long! It would seem that something happened to that parcel!
My only hope now is that somehow it will be returned to the sender. Maybe there was some slight mistake on the address, maybe not but something that went wrong.
One thing I've been learning with these recent incidents with shipping from at least these two locations, Canada and Belgium, which never ever happened once during the many years I was into Phaleristics, and ordered stuff, some quite valuable, from all over the world, including from former "communist" Mongolia (capital: Ulaanbaatar) and China, most of the time by Registered mail, but often times not necessarily, and never ever lost one parcel in transit!
Recently it happens twice! I'll never again order/get anything from abroad not Registered, with a tracking number that we can trace online. That's the only way I ship my own stuff from my site, only and always by Registered mail, with a tracking number one can follow online, on the various countries POs websites, or private companies (UPS, DHL, Chronopost, etc) when it's the case. It's right away an assurance, for both the sender and the receiver, that the parcel was indeed shipped, and then in case something would happen, wrong destination, whatever, one can always knows its whereabouts, and recover it sooner or later. This almost totally excludes losing parcels in transit, as we can follow its path all the time as it moves from point A to B to C, etc until it reaches its destination.
I realize that nowadays (only on the last 5 years or so) many things may have changed to the worst, sadly... Others, luckily, have changed to the better... Balance is the key I guess...
Cheers!
Dolf
