@reallynicestamps wrote:
Never encourage a buyer to watch tracking.
It will get there. It is on its way. It is going Surface so it will take ages.
Fortunately the Orthodox Christmas is around January 6, 2021.
There is very likely a mistake in there because it takes longer than three days for a ship to go from Toronto to Ukraine.
It 's like a typo. And it likely went by Air.
Although Toronto is a "sea" port, since the Seaway is not yet closed for the winter.
What is the estimated delivery date? Neither you nor she can do anything until that day passes.
Looking at a map, Moscow is as close to the Black Sea as it is to the Baltic Sea. And the Baltic ports might be closed by ice already.
One reason Putin invaded Crimea was to have a cold-weather port which is ice-free.
It's a regular buyer, and he always watches tracking. The estimate date has passed, I sold these tokens to him when there were no packages to Russia. I had to give him an exemption to be able to purchase, but then he had trouble paying. He contacted me in October to say it's OK to ship his tokens (which was 4 kg), and by surface because it's cheaper, but his packages have previously gone by air on occasion.
AFAIK, you can't send a boat from Toronto to Ukraine, it's land locked. It obviously went by air (and I think the code is Kiev). The last tracking that updated late today says "in transit to destination". They aren't clear if they know it's supposed to be going to Russia.
I'm not sure where the Russia parcels arrive by sea, but the tracking always shows Montreal as the departure and Moscow as the arrival. It doesn't get scanned before Moscow, and then the last scan is his town.
