Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jim: I haven't had any trouble mailing film via Priority Mail since I switched to their small flat box, the one just a little bigger than a VHS tape. You can go to the USPS web site... Priority Mail Supplies and click on: Priority Mail Small Video Box (0-1096S) Your mail carrier will deliver a group of 10 or 20 boxes to you in less than 2 weeks... no charge. <http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductCategoryDisplay?beginIndex=0&pageSize=10000&langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10152&categoryId=13354> or: http://tinyurl.com/yyfr8k Jim H. Jim Shulman wrote: > One of the more recent frustrating aspects of an unhealthy attachment to > film photography has nothing to do with the rising price of film or the > delay between image capture and image viewing: it's the US Postal Service. > > Over the past few months I've had unconscionable delays (and on one > occasion, as loss) in film shipments, both to and from labs. These have > included: ruptured envelopes (using the USPS's envelopes provided for > Priority Mail), delays of up to a month, and in one case film just MIA > (fortunately it was a test roll of a new camera and lens, so nothing > monumental was lost--if you could consider anything I shoot to be > monumental.) In almost all cases I've double-wrapped my film--the film > goes > into one USPS envelope, and that envelope into a larger one. All is > Tyvek-encased, taped to a fare-thee-well, and yet still moves with the > speed > of Lincoln's funeral cortege at a premium rate. > > The strange part is that I've just started having this problem during the > past few months. For years I sent film zipping back and forth across the > country at lightning speed, without complications. > > For those few remaining analog fans, has anyone else experienced similar > recent problems? > > Jim Shulman > Bryn Mawr, PA > Whose tacky 8mm color movies of the Mermaid Parade finally made it to the > lab after a SIX DAY JOURNEY AT PRIORITY MAIL RATES. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >