Just a quick note about eBay bookstore shipments

[dianeduane]

I'll be e-mailing everybody about this over the course of the day, but I just wanted to put a note here, since a lot of people seem to read the weblog.

Just so you know -- there is a postal dispute going on in Northern Ireland that is affecting shipments of stuff from my eBay store to the States. I didn't know about this before, but investigation of some delayed shipments over the last week has turned up the information that apparently registered mail to the US and some other destinations does not always fly directly from Dublin Airport. Sometimes it goes via ground transport to Belfast's sorting office, and from there to one of Belfast's two airports. Unfortunately, this work dispute has been going on for the last two weeks, maybe more -- and as a result, a lot of my registered mail is sitting up there in a big hopper with about 8 million other pieces of mail, and not going anywhere.

So if you have not seen something you ordered a couple of weeks back, please be patient -- it's probably sitting in Belfast. I'll post some more information about this as soon as I get it.

Comments

aaaargh!

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

And here I was worrying about our postal system and the fact that international mail to my area goes through the slowest sorting facility in the country...

[naraht.livejournal.com]

Well, I got me copy of Romulan Way last week, still waiting on Spock's World.

Between your postal troubles & the fact that Houston's postal system is still super bogged down thanx to Katrina...

*sigh*

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Really? I grant you, the only mail I ever have directly with Houston is via Netflix, but why is it taking so long to recover from what was less than a one-week stoppage?

Austin-area never showed a glitch; we were lucky that way.

[naraht.livejournal.com]

because last I checked, ALL of the NO mail is still being handled via Houston's facilitys. And the post office hasn't bothered to hire additional works to cover the load.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Yowza! I thought it had been shifted to Baton Rouge and Lechamp. That's poor planning, but hey, I somehow can't bring myself to be surprised.

I shall rest assured though that the only thing standing between me and the original copy-edited manuscript of Book of Night with Moon is Belfastian stubbornness, and not Texan stubbornness as well.

*squee*