Shipping Fur Sporrans internationally

[EagleJCS]

Wow. I wasn't aware CITES covered all of that as well. I'm familiar (somewhat, by "word-of-mouth") with the ban on ivory importation - as it relates to the decoration/mounts on bagpipes, etc.

[longhuntr74]

I generally prefer USPS for shipping...so I won't argue against that. I think they are cheaper and I also like the 6 days per week vs. 5 of most commercial carriers. Now...if only they could get some organizational design specialists and business experts in there to fix the fact that they are constantly in the RED before the government decided to cut their losses and do away with the USPS altogether...or decides to double the prices of mail to make up for the lack of revenues....

But that's not the reason for my post. What I wanted to say is that I like UPS's tracking website much better than USPS. The postal service does a very poor job of in-transit visibility IMHO. When I order something and it's shipped via UPS, I can see exactly what time it arrives and departs at each step of the journey...and I like that. USPS is frequently 12+ hours time delay in their updates.

I have a small UPS story to share: I just ordered a new messenger bag from Zappos on Thursday afternoon...pacific time. I received notice on Thursday evening at about 9pm that Zappos had opted to upgrade my standard shipping (which was free to begin with...the upgrade was also free) and that I would be receiving my bag earlier than expected. The departure location of the bag was Louisville, KY. The shipping label/pick-up order was generated by Zappos at 1:02am Friday morning...central time. The bag was delivered to my front door on the coast of California at 10am Pacific Time...Friday morning. 12 hours from warehouse to my door. Thank you UPS...and Zappos!!!