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World Wide Letter Envelope (International) |
Most ButtonWorx™ orders are small, thin and eligible to ship by plain old letter envelope
A photo of your envelope will be taken and sent to the email address used for the order
- This lets you know what to keep an eye out for
- Allows you to verify the mailing address
- Faster, because it usually does not go through customs
International mail is considered unreasonably delayed (probably lost) after
5 Weeks Canada
5 Weeks Germany, UK, Ireland, Spain, France
8 Weeks Australia, New Zealand, (most other countries)
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USA Letter Envelope (Domestic) |
Letter mail is not trackable!
A photo of your envelope will be taken and sent to the email address used for the order
Shipping cost for letter mail orders includes honor based insurance. After 2 full weeks (+ any official USPS holidays and + 4 days for orders placed between Nov 15 and Jan 15) if the order has not arrived yet, I can send a replacement order. I need to first confirm the address is good and you agree to return the 2nd order to arrive should they both show up by simply writing "Return To Sender" on one unopened letter and giving it back to USPS. If you want to upgrade the shipping for the replacement order to faster and tracked options let me know.
I send hundreds of letters every month. I hear of quite a few that take longer than 2 weeks to arrive.
Letter mail is generally reliable and can even be faster than packages in certain situations however there is a higher rate of mysterious delays.
If a letter goes through the system without a hiccup then it's usually quite fast. However, if anything happens that requires a human to get involved that can take a long time for them to get around to it. This could be a sorting machine failure, address issue, a miss-delivery, the envelope placed on the wrong truck or plane, etc...
Once mailed there is no way to intercept, search for, redirect, return, cancel or prevent delivery.
From years of experience it seems like around 10% of letter mail experiences noticeable delays and around 3-4% take weeks longer than expected.
There is one way to know when the envelope will (probably) be out for delivery
Sign up for informed delivery at USPS and receive photos of your mail sent to your email address daily
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/