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| Staring back from the abyss  |
...or...a VERY rare, for me, kudos to Fedex. Ordered an item from Brescia, Italy on Monday. It left Brescia Tuesday morning and arrived on my porch about an hour ago. Halfway around the world in two days! Yet, it'll take two weeks to get a package from fucking Boise! ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | ||
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From time to I order stuff from Varusteleka. In Finland. And I get the item in about a week. Beats USPS/FedEx/UPS/Amazon every time! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I had a similar experience ordering a watch from Spain about a year ago. Spain to Arkansas, including through Customs, faster than I could have shipped something to the next town over. | |||
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I have had similar experiences ordering UniLights from Vienna! They don't mess around when it comes to shipping! | |||
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Well, you know what they say about blind squirrels and nuts...  | |||
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Amazon lost my package they shipped from Springdale, OH to Sharonville, OH. Google it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Fed Ex just sent my package on a tour, dyslexia happened, Threw it on a truck to NM instead of MN adding 4 days to the should have been 3 days, and of course it was something I was hoping for on time “Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” John Adams | |||
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| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
I ebay ordered a Walther rifle sight from Bulgaria. It got here within a week. SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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My best FedEx story happened in 2012. I had ordered a recumbent trike from England. They handed the box over to FedEx, who got it to Heathrow, then flew it directly to the hub in Memphis. During this time, I completed the necessary customs paperwork online. When it hit Memphis, they processed it right through and made the cutoff for the truck to Nashville. Upon arrival there, it made the cutoff for the truck down to Murfreesboro. So a large, 40ish-pound box shipped from England on Thursday afternoon and I had it in my possession by Friday morning. Needless to say, I was impressed! | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
I am laughing hysterically because I don’t need to Google the locations to know them! ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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More light than heat |
I’m fortunate enough to live literally down the street from an Amazon warehouse. About half of my orders arrive the same day. _________________________ "Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it." Robert Heinlein | |||
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Been ordering fishing reels from Japan. Fastest was 52 hours from order submitted to reel in my hand. Usually is a 3 day journey for the reels, compared where it takes Midway USA 7 days to get me an order delivered just a few states away. | |||
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