Question for UK Brits

[spedbug]

If you mailed a book the slowest possible way (book rate, sea mail, whatever) to Germany, what is the longest delivery time you'd expect?

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[miketroll.livejournal.com]

Elham says max 6 days, for printed paper. That's right - I wouldn't expect anything to take longer. Mostly it's 4 days. I always ask for the cheapest rate, which for books is usually "Small packet". There is a silly international rule that Small Packets must not contain letters. They always ask if there's a letter in there and you always say no.

[spedbug.livejournal.com]

As I suspected, the ring that someone promised me would be mailed out on February 7th would have reached Germany by now three times over had they been telling the truth. The fact that they've had the journal since November, have only answered one PM I've sent and, then, never journalled its release after they "promised" to "send it out tomorrow" spoke volumes.

I vacillate between being thoroughly disheartened and completely infuriated :(