"Suspending International mail"

I always saved a few BIN sellers who have items (banknotes) sold below SCWPM Book Values (BV) and recently I tried to buy a few of my "saved" notes from the same sellers. However, on trying to check out, I was blocked with a message that stated that the seller could NOT send to my CDN address. The seller is US based. I have also noted in other stores a message starting with an ALERT that the "Postal service is temporarily mail acceptance of certain destinations due to service impacts related to Covid-19."

I have reached out to these sellers for clarification & info: but no reply. Has anyone else experienced similar situations (where a seller only will sell to his/her nation, etc)? Just curious as I've received items from Europe in 1 month or less (which is WAY better than the 6 weeks or more I experienced last summer) with no issues whatsoever. Now it appears as if the US border seems shut down to CDN buyers (unless it is FEDEX/pricey).

I checked the USPS site, and I saw no info.
I did see Canada is currently enforcing a a force majeure on international mail until further notice.. Not sure what that means, but i think because of Covid .You may have mailing issues. It said your country is having issues with transporting the mail.Maybe not enough
drivers etc.

On December 9, I sent a package from Israel to New Zealand, only to get it back after a month (!) stamped "return to sender - service temporarily suspended".
And I didn't send any Covid inside; just Coins.

I am living in Thailand. I am still yet to receive after 11 months trades from USA , Canada, Germany and a couple of other places. I am sure it is because of covid. A member here also sent a "test" letter from Belgium in July 2020 which I still have not received. I am glad that my trading partners got their packages. I would love to know where the "lost" mail is.

Have a nice weekend and well-being.

Since the spring months of last year in connection with the disease International Federation of Postal Services inform the national consignor -on the acceptance or refusal to accept postal items , between states.

I did not understand in the spring of 2020 that the registered shipment from a friend and colleague here from Numista had been returned from Prague from customs back to India, ( I thought the cover or empty envelope was broken )

In December, when I sent to India from us, so did the post office clerk that he looked in the PC list of the state where it is allowed to send.
Because it's a neighbor who does the post office, so I asked:
-In the spring India is banned and now allowed
-One day the state goes straight and after a week not anymore and the shipment returns
-The bureaucracy among officials is the same everywhere -the decree either prohibits or permits

,,The solution is always to first ask the postal service in your country and country from where you order,,
however, you are still not sure that it will not change the next day -Because this disease has many consequences and complications, and I think the world is changing under our eyes.

Ahoj Ivan

Quote: "blue-m"​I am living in Thailand. I am still yet to receive after 11 months trades from USA , Canada, Germany and a couple of other places. I am sure it is because of covid. A member here also sent a "test" letter from Belgium in July 2020 which I still have not received. I am glad that my trading partners got their packages. I would love to know where the "lost" mail is.

​I think your lost mail must be somewhere in Thailand, as I have been sending and receiving everything successfully for the last half year and only your test-letter (containing a few unsolicited real coins for the sake of proper testing ) is still missing in action
For me North America (both US and Canada), Europe, Israel and New Zealand have all worked out as of late without significant delays, though I can imagine local worldwide disruptions. There must be some huge warehouses filling up if international mail stops for more than half a year!

Here's my longest (till now) swap. I'm not sure it should be blamed solely on Corona: rather on the postal services globally lack of preparedness to deal with volumes of e-commerce. Dinosaurs that'll soon be extinct!