SAL: remarkable service!

Sep 05, 2005 1 Replies

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Dog Ma 1 20 years ago

I just bought a bunch of nice Yixings and two cakes of a wonderful

12-year-old green Pu-erh (best I've had yet, except for a bit of $5000/lb imperial ambrosia) from James at Pu-erhtea.com. (Pretty remarkable service there, too, not to mention the tea.) Since I needed the pots for gifts, I opted for the mid-price SAL option. I expected 5~6 weeks delivery, plus a possible delay in customs.

In the event, I think the time from e-mail order to delivery was about 19 days. Did I just get lucky, or is this typical? I've had slower deliveries from California, at twice the shipping cost.

-Besotted in Boston

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Space Cowboy 20 years ago

I think SAL is nothing more than connections and customs. My fastest from Kunming is 21 days. I remember one from a coastal port of around

10 days. When I order other commodity from Europe I send it by Surface for half the price of SAL. It takes six weeks for an order from Germany. Stuff from Europe is just as expensive as stuff from China. Next time I'll select ChinaPost Surface and let the puerh age on it's way over. Also be sure your dates are from post and not order. For some reason my postal carrier is now removing the ChinaPost custom declaration with shipping address,cost,date,etc. Guess I'll have to talk to the PostMaster and find out why.

Jim

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