[Dx-qsl] Advice Please

[Peter Dougherty]

At 06:59 PM 08/02/2006, Robert Emory wrote:
>There is no accountability
>from one post office to another.  I had thought that
>when the article is received at a postal facility it
>was scanned; not so I am told.
>So, the bottom line seems to be that registered mail
>and particularly registered mail sent to a foreign
>country is not nearly as secure as  I had thought.
>I was told the letter could be lost, in customs,
>or already delivered.  That certainly put my mind
>at rest.
>Would appreciate the thoughts of the mail gurus
>out there.

Not entirely true. WITHIN the United States, registered mail is kept 
separate from all other mail, and must be guarded or locked up at all 
times. Your envelope with QSL cards may be sitting next to $50,000 
worth of diamonds or a 1952 Mickey Mantle card.

When you purchase registration, you're purchasing only the above 
services. NOT delivery confirmation/tracking. That is an additional service.

Now, once you're talking international, all bets are off. The USPS 
guys you spoke to were quite correct about it being delivered or held 
in customs, etc. There is no way to track international mail yet, and 
I wonder if there ever will be. What you can be assured of is that 
your letter was sent by the most secure route that it's possible to 
have, short of sending it FedEx custom-critical or hand-delivering 
it. Certainly the most reliable and secure postal method. What 
happens at the Egyptian end, though, is anybody's guess.




Cheers,

Peter,
W2IRT