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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 2218388, member: 71234"]<b>US Registered Mail gets no special treatment outside USA. It is also very slow indeed inside the US.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>That's because it's the safest way to ship anything. Slow but safe! Written records of every movement in shipping.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Inside the USA, certainly. Outside the USA it is just regular mail. The risk of loss of regular mail is minimal, but you are not getting anything for your money once the mail leaves the US. Many Americans seem to think that the USPS is worldwide. It is not, and although there are international standards for mail covering all manner of aspects of handling and delivery, US Registered Mail is not covered by any UPU convention, so any special treatment it gets is purely domestic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any US Registered Mail items I have had at home in England are simply dropped through the letter box with the rest of the post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 2218388, member: 71234"][B]US Registered Mail gets no special treatment outside USA. It is also very slow indeed inside the US.[/B] [I]That's because it's the safest way to ship anything. Slow but safe! Written records of every movement in shipping.[/I] Inside the USA, certainly. Outside the USA it is just regular mail. The risk of loss of regular mail is minimal, but you are not getting anything for your money once the mail leaves the US. Many Americans seem to think that the USPS is worldwide. It is not, and although there are international standards for mail covering all manner of aspects of handling and delivery, US Registered Mail is not covered by any UPU convention, so any special treatment it gets is purely domestic. Any US Registered Mail items I have had at home in England are simply dropped through the letter box with the rest of the post.[/QUOTE]
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