Super Fast Shipping

DHL from Germany about 36 hours. However I am still waiting for my Diocletian abdication follis to arrive. It was shipped from France on May 23rd. Probably stuck in the ISC but who knows. I am not terribly worried yet, but I still have some anxiety.

 

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My Titus denarius took over 20 days from Netherlands to US via DHL. Got stuck in customs for a week or so.

 

I've won coins from Savoca on Sunday and received them by Tuesday morning. FedEx is indeed incredible.

Meanwhile, one time I sold a coin to a buyer in my state (about a 1.5 hour drive) and it took a week and a half to arrive. It went from the Charlotte, NC distribution center, to Los Angeles(?), back to Charlotte, pinballed between local POs, then finally to the destination.

This one has a fun story.


I won it in a small lot from Themis back in January, decided to patiently wait (I chose the €7 tracked shipping rather than the €15 FedEx option), then COVID happened, and I finally opened a PayPal dispute before the 180 days had passed. Apparently the package bounced off of some customs office as "undeliverable" so they just sat on it for five months and didn't tell me. They shipped it FedEx and it was on my front porch 36 hours later.

 

It just dawned on me that I have a crown-size silver coin still in Norway.
Dang, it's been so long I almost forgot about it.

Steve

 

Even though I don't count the hours, some of the fastest shipping auctioneers out there are Savoca, cgb and some small-time sellers. But of course it all depends on how fast you pay the bill ;-)

 

I have found @Victor_Clark to be the fastest domestic (US) shipper.

 

Thank you, but I can only take credit (or blame) for quickly getting packages to the post office, then all credit (or blame) is on them.

 

That is what I really meant to say, Victor. I should have added (gratuitously):
Always great service and great coins!

 

Someone should come up with a list of notoriously slow shippers - not the ones who've been affected by the pandemic, but rather the pre-pandemic sellers who routinely drag their feet. I know coin collectors are unbelievably patient, but I'd actively avoid any seller who is slow in fulfilling his end of a transaction, especially when I pay immediately. Ebay is full of sellers like that, like it's a nuisance for them to have to physically ship your item (to be fair, ebay also has some very commendable sellers, too).

 

United Arab Emirates to Texas via FedEx, won the auction Thursday 18th and it arrived today the 23rd. Not quite 31 hours, but 3 business days for halfway around the world.

 

United Arab Emirates to Texas via FedEx, won the auction Thursday 18th and it arrived today the 23rd. Not quite 31 hours, but 3 business days for halfway around the world.

 

This is what I get for boasting about DHL: I just received an email notifying me that there's been a "delivery exception" for another DHL package from London, because it's being held up in Customs in New York.

 

OK but that is not really DHL's fault...

 

I'm not suggesting that it was. Rather, I'm suggesting that it was bad luck for me to talk about how quickly I've been getting shipments from Europe sent by that method!

 

Not always. This month, it took FedEx well over a week to get a package of coins from London to me on the US East Coast, and only after I completed an "importer" form. Subsequently, I received from FedEx an invoice for "taxes and duty" despite the fact that ancient coins are not subject to U.S. import duty. I'll be fighting that.

 

Tempting the fates is NEVER a good idea. The Karmic Chicken ALWAYS comes home to roost.

 

It's delivery day today, so the final report card for Kölner Münzkabinett at MA Shops is in. I bought my coin on June 16, it was shipped on June 18, and it's in today's mail for delivery, so it took a total of seven days to travel from Germany to Pennsylvania. Kölner Münzkabinett gets five big stars from me for speed of service and for their quick response to emails, too.