O'Riordan Lost in The Mail

Whistle
1

Bought a O’Riordan from England recently, but the whistle was never arrived. The whistle was lost in the mail.

I had bad luck to order packages from England. Last 5 years, 4 packages were mailed from England to me and two were lost. It is a 50% lost rate. Those packages are:

  1. A CD was successfully received.
  2. A equipment repair part was lost.
  3. Seller re-sent another repair part and was received.
  4. O’Riordan whistle was lost.

Hopefully, this O’Riordan whistle is in a good hand but not forever stays at the corner of a mail room or Custom room.

2

a thought on my recent experience,
over the last few months packages to and from
the US seem to be taking much longer, 4 to 6 weeks in both directions
where as last year a week to 10 days was the norm.

no idea why this is :confused: I hope your whistle arrives safely.

3

I’ve had a similar experience, that packages sent internationally are taking longer recently.

Best wishes,
Jerry

4

When Mitch send me my Oz whistle two years ago from Australia to the Netherlands it got lost as well.
It took almost two and a half months (and many phone calls) to arrive.

With the tracking number, regular contact with the postal service and a bit of patience there is still a good change it will turn up.
My advise would be to call the postal service to ask what the procedure is on starting an investigation into the lost parcel.

5

i’ve had most of my international packages to and from the US take a really long time due to customs, weather, and who knows what else.
are you at a strange type of address (APO, apartment, etc?)

6

Thanks everyone, I feel better now. This whistle was mailed around 7 weeks ago, I may still have a chance to get it. Unfortunately, it is a regular airmail and no tracking number.

7

Weird place, the rest of the world is. Here a house of your own would be a strange kind of address prone to confuse mail. :slight_smile:
(may be off-topic)

8

Rotten luck! That’s a real shame about the O’Riordan. :angry:

I’ve not had any trouble ordering packages from England yet…

9

I’ve not seen a problem with whistles coming to the US from other countries recently other than it has taken a few days longer. 12 days recently from Scotland when it was 8 days a year ago from the same vendor.

I’ve always had problems with whistles sent from the US to Europe through regular mail. I’ve sent three and only one arrived. Two have been lost for more than six months. One to England and one to Germany. I’ve tried to use Federal Express when possible. It costs more but it always gets there.

I’ll bet your O’Riordan shows up soon. I have had them take as long as 30 days on occasion, particularly if they aren’t sent via using a special service like tracking or priority.

ecohawk

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Sure hope the OP’s O’Riordan finds it’s mark.
Just to show that they get it right sometimes, I recently had a whistle shipped from Scotland to the east coast of the US. The shipper used Royal Mail airsure priority mail. I was able to track it on the computer and it arrived in only a week’s time including the long three day weekend.