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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5382109, member: 85693&quot;]I&#039;ll probably jinx myself, but I bought half dozen or so coins from Europe via eBay late last year and in every case, delivery was astonishingly prompt to the Midwest USA (2-5 weeks or so).&nbsp; Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, Ukraine and France. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just ordered a cheap-o Faustina II denarius from the Ukraine, so we&#039;ll see how 2021 goes!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Germany is a strange case on eBay.&nbsp; Some sellers charge $7-10 for shipping, and the coin arrives fine; nothing fancy, just the postal service, sometimes with tracking, sometimes not.&nbsp; Other sellers charge around $20-25, which is worth more than most of the coins I buy, so I don&#039;t bid.&nbsp; The UK is the same.&nbsp; Other European countries, Iberian and Eastern, tend to ship in the $7-10 range and, so far, things work out fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>European tracking can be sort of useless - it will show up when the package first hits the post office, then nothing until it hits the USPS. </p><p><br /></p><p>The recent US situation has caused some glitches for me.&nbsp; I just got a sestertius in the mail shipped from a Midwestern state <i>that shares a border with mine</i> - it was in transit almost a month, including a journey in the wrong direction to another state on the other border.&nbsp; From December 14 to January 2 various post offices in Indianapolis passed this envelope back and forth 8 times - so it was not stuck in a pile, it was moving around, aimlessly.&nbsp; Sometimes I don&#039;t understand automation - there seems to be some sort of feedback loop that things get caught in sometimes. </p><p><br /></p><p>But really, the US Postal Service generally does a really great job, as far as my experiences go.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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