15 Jun
2013
15 Jun
'13
11:10 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:17:21 -0400, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com>
wrote:
I think a lot of the problems we experience with the
USPS is the
"last mile", i.e. the actual delivery. For the most part, I'm
sure the USPS is fine at*processing* packages; then they hand
it off to your local postal service for delivery. Presumably,
Sweden's government sees fit to adequately fund your postal
service?
Sweden's postal service is a government-owned corporation, owned
partly
by the Swedish and partly by the Danish government. It is as far as I
know not publicly funded, but required to pay dividends to the
governments. It has gone downhill, but is still better than the other
alternatives. Schenker (owned by Deutsche Bahn) is cheaper for parcels
but IMO rather less good. Usually the Post Office works reasonably well,
but just this week they appear to have lost a parcel from Germany which
was one of those signed-for things, which arrived while I was away and
supposed to have been sent to the local pick-up place. However they do
not know where it is. Very annoying. If it is lost they will pay for it,
but that takes time and I will have to order my stuff all over again.
/Jonas