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From early February to late June I shipped 6 packages to Italy using ChitChats cheap service (not tracking).
I have received feedback for the first 5, delivery times were quite good. The one in early April was sent to a buyer located only 60km from "ground zero" of the pandemic, at that time there was still a full lockdown.
Over the years I have shipped more than 300 orders to Italy and never lost a single one, there were significant delays during the 2007 - 2009 period, that was the time when Italy acquired it's bad reputation (all a customs problem) due to massive backlogs at the incoming International mail centres. Those backlogs were cleared by the end of 2009 and it's been smooth sailing since then.
It should be noted that virtually all the people who complain about delivery times to Italy stopped shipping there over 10 years ago and have no current experience.
Throughout the pandemic I have been shipping to Europe, I've had two problem shipments, one to Spain and one to Greece, others have been slow but are getting there and recently some countries (UK, France, Germany) have been almost "normal" (10 - 14 days).
I have NO experience shipping via Canada Post or USPS, I imagine there are more problems that the ChitChats service (DHL Global Mail I think) which seem to be able to get packages to the hub in Frankfurt without much delay. USPS is especially bad because the majority of their stuff is being shipped to Europe via ocean freight.
