Hi guys, I'm making a thread because I can't find a topic related to LPU in general so I hope you can help me with a few questions. I'll be buying LPU for the first time and, I want to know if the shipment regularly takes as long as they say in the FAQ, they talk about 6-8 weeks, even in the US? Thought the shipment was only a few days when it was within the States. I'm going to do online US shopping early next year and I'm sending all the stuff to a courier in Miami and they are the ones who will ship it safely to me, but 6-8 weeks it's kind of a lot of time, a time I don't have. Also, has anyone bought their membership as a 1st time buyer and then gone to the LPU store, buy more stuff and get all sent into one package? This one seems unlikely because you need to be a member to shop there, but it would be nice to save some shipping money. Hope you guys can help me. ---------------------------- NOTE: Now with my own FAQ. 1. Why don't I just put my home address? LPU ships worldwide. See, that would be the case if I didn't live in Venezuela. Stuff sent through national mail have a tendency of getting lost, especially is they are not "important stuff". So we instead rely on private companies -generally located in Miami- who do that for us instead (legally), we pay in local currency and we can put an insurance in our shipments. I'm ashamed to admit former member Sarah (AKA Gloomy Mushroom) sent me a nice souvenir package from Australia during the Olympics and I never got it. 2. Why can't you wait 8 weeks? Because I'll be buying more stuff from Amazon, so if the stuff remains in Miami for too long, courier will probably assume those things are abandoned. 3. Why not buy LPU 1st, wait, and then the rest of the stuff? Because currency devaluation is around the corner. So I'm pretty desperate, lol. --------------------------- I've put a lot of thought into this, I wish living here wouldn't make things so difficult. TL;DR: Is there any faster shipment option for LPU? Sorry for any inconvenience!
The shipping time is 6-8 weeks inside the USA. It's longer if you directly send it internationally. The recommended wait time internationally is 12 weeks before getting worried. I believe it is this way because the warehouse that houses all the packages waits for a bunch of orders and then ships everybody out all at once, once a month. Which would also explain why they don't combine the membership package with anything else you've bought inside the store. Those would count as two separate orders. The LPU is el cheapo like that. Sorry. BTW, what is this courier service you speak of? I have relatives in Brazil and I'm just used to expecting that packages disappear.
Thanks very much for your response Vriska, it was very helpful. Well I'll try and sort that timing out. And as for the mailing company, well, if the package is sent through standard mail like USPS it will land on the hands of our national Ipostel (state mail service), the thing is that they are slow as hell and pretty much all state companies have poor service here, so they probably get stuck at customs or something, thing is they tend to get lost. They're even unreliable with shipments within the country, online sellers send stuff through them only when customers accept the risks. Private companies is our safer way to go. -------------- I've been thinking and what I'll probably do is use a different courier to ship LPU then. I wanted to have everything on one shipment but for the best, I think I should separate it then.