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Stewart McSporran
Master Film Handler

Posts: 272
From: Glasgow, Scotland
Registered: Nov 2003

posted May 28, 2007 08:10 AM

Hi,

I arranged to have some films sent to my US address while I was over last week. A couple didn't arrive.

I'm guessing they were sent Media Mail.

Assuming that the films don't just "go missing"; what does the USPS do when Media Mail packages aren't delivered? Are they returned to sender?

thanks
Stewart

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 28, 2007 10:12 AM

If there is a usable return address, they'll send an undeliverable piece of mail back, otherwise there is kind of a Postal Black Hole casually called "The Dead Letter Office" where undeliverable and unreturnable mail goes, usually because the delivery and return addresses are illegible. Eventually the mail is opened and if there is a clue where it belongs they'll try to deliver it.

I probably have a film there myself at the moment (been a month...), and hope that the letter inside with my return address will get it steered back to me.

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted May 28, 2007 01:09 PM

It seems that at times, Media Mail can take WEEKS to arrive at its destination... unlike most other postal services it doesn't really have a target delivery date that USPS tries to get it delivered by, it's more of a "whenever we get around to it" kind of thing from what I've seen. So you'll probably get the films *eventually*.

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Jim Carlile
Film Handler

Posts: 95
From: Burbank, California, USA
Registered: Apr 2007

posted June 03, 2007 03:02 AM

The USPS will hold packages at the local post office for several weeks, then they will ship them back to the sender. They should have left a little yellow slip at the door when they attempted delivery; this can be used to redeem the package.

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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1261
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted June 03, 2007 07:24 PM

Jim,

Welcome to the Forum.

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Mike Nyberg
Junior
Posts: 13
From: Sacramento, California
Registered: May 2007

posted June 03, 2007 09:20 PM

I am waiting on some 8mm Magazines to arrive from England...its been five weeks now (purchased through amazon, the seller is nice, so its simply a matter of waiting for the mail...unless it was sent on the Lusitania).

Cheers,
Mike

PS - Media mail can take 4 weeks INSIDE the US - this happens a lot with books coming from the east coast to the west coast in my experience.

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