Just wanted to report on my experience purchasing a Homelike shaving tool from Russia.
If you’re considering a purchase from Homelike, be sure to take your ability to be patient into consideration...before hitting the PayPal key.
Both myself and B&B member Keto have been waiting for the arrival of Homelike razors from Omsk. Keto’s experience is messier, I’ll let him explain, if he chooses.
Regarding my mess...Homelike shipped my Baikal razor on Jan 16. The arrival in the US was Jan 25 at JFK airport in NY. 9 days to cross half the earth and pass thru Russian customs. Then it gets interesting...
Since the package has been in the hands of the USPS, it has visited: Dallas Jan 28, Chicago Feb 8, Cincinnati Feb 10. (Cincinnati is heading east, I live west of Chi-town.) The Baikal has now been in the US for 17 days and still doesn’t have my mailbox in its sights.
It all seems so simple until the USPS and US Customs gets involved.
Thought you’d want to know.
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USPS really has a knack for screwing this stuff up. I received an eBay order today that was supposed to be delivered last Thursday. Watching the tracking it made no less than 4 trips from the regional post office to the main post office for the city then finally out to my local neighborhood office.
My father shared a story just a month or so back that he ordered hardware for a compartment on his camper from a company up in Illinois or Wisconsin, shipped USPS to his place outside of Cincinnati. He tracked the package to Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Hawaii, Arizona, Missouri, Kentucky then finally to his home address. This Tom place for almost 7 weeks as it went MIA in Texas for 10 days and again in Arizona for another 19. All that for a package that was supposed to be delivered in 3 to 5 business days.
Guess I should stop complaining about my packages occasionally bouncing back and forth between local regional delivery facilities before they are inevitably delivered a few days later than they would be otherwise.