Lost e94 lajoie from Canada

[pete zouras]

Please keep your eye out for this card. It appears to stuck in Jersey City. Needless to say I'm going to think long and hard before doing business that involves shipment from Canada in the future.

Thanks,
Pete

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

Detailed Results (tracking):

Inbound International Arrival, June 15, 2010, 8:22 am, FOREIGN CENTERJERSEY CITY NJ 099
Origin Post is Preparing Shipment
Foreign International Dispatch, June 10, 2010, 1:00 pm, TORONTO-A, CANADA
Foreign Acceptance, June 04, 2010, 9:59 am, CANADA

[bwiller]

Hey Pete, as someone who buys a lot of hockey cards from Canada, I understand your concern. However, it may take a few weeks to clear customs. A couple months back I had a card that hit the states and then took almost 3 weeks to get to me (almost identical tracking information).
Bob

[Kotton King]

Hi Pete,

Customs in Jersey City is a little slow, so I agree be patient. I live in Jersey and have had to deal with them a few times with packages coming from Canada. I've had a package stay in their possession for as long as 4 weeks before it got to me. You will get it my friend.

[Leon]

I like our friends from Canada but the shipping to and fro can be very arduous. I don't think 3 weeks is abnormal and some of my shipments have taken that long or longer. I too think you will still get it. It could be 3-6 weeks but it should get to you. Good luck.

[nebboy]

Got one 2 days ago that took 8 weeks from the date on the post mark to get to my door.

[scooter729]

I mailed a package on May 4 from Boston that the delivery confirmation last scanned in Jersey City on May 5. The package is now MIA. Post Office says they are looking for it, but I don't expect anything.

Hopefully not something fishy going on at Jersey City!

[Ladder7]

If we invade them, this issue is dead. As a bonus, we'd get a better view of the Falls!

They do it differently up there. But, Ive had 100% success with all Canadian transactions -eventually.

[byrone]

If a card is stuck at Jersey City, that is a U.S. customs issue, not a post office matter

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by byrone

If a card is stuck at Jersey City, that is a U.S. customs issue, not a post office matter

Even if it's a Standard shipping package being shipped from Connecticut to California?

[scooter729]

Boston to Florida via Jersey City isn't a customs issue...

[pete zouras]

I called the Jersey City center today and was pleasantly surprised when they returned my voicemail. He said with Canadian tracking, the next place the package would be scanned would be at my hometown PO. So while it looks like it's stuck in JC, it's really in transit.

From the tracking number I gave him, he said it should've gone out the next day--based on other items received that day (some already delivered). He said I could "start worrying" if it didn't arrive by Friday, when he said to file a postal search form 3760 to possibly recover it from a some place in Atlanta (where lost mail goes).

When I bought the item the seller assured me that it would be shipped with maximum insurance. He paid extra for upgraded tracking which turned out to be less reliable than first class. I figured I was covered by Paypal in the event of loss and did not think I would have to resort to that. Next time I'll be more circumspect about delivery options for out-of-the-country purchases.

If this ends up the way I think it will, there'll be one fewer e94 lajoies out there; yet another way in which a already limited population of cards is attrited.