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CPUShack
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| wepwawet wrote: | | "Does this letter contain documents?" |
Just stick a note in each one haha
yes it contains documents lol
or EPROMs, the documents are stored on the IC
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alexino2
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Location: France
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Mixeur wrote: | | In France, some years ago, they were quite hard with the letters. They wanted only papers into it, and were checking for hard objects to make you pay a package shipping, more expansive. For some years, they changed and they allow smal objects (less than 3 cm height) in letters |
On the contrary, i was able to send books of 4cm height before  Now they check the size every time.
I think we don't have to complain, with no track, a dip with bubble letter at 1.30€ or 3 pentium at 2.60€ anywhere in the world. We add about 3€ for tracking ^^ When your cpu is worth 2 or 3€, you don't really care about tracking lol
BUT a 4cm package (even 20g) is 24.35€... |
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ph4nt0m
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I bought a few CPUs on eBay in October, 2018 from a German seller. They were sent with Deutsche Post letter mail registered, though it was a decent cardboard box. Well, it showed up on my end only in January, 2019  That's nearly 3 months for 1000km distance.
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debs3759
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I find packages from China often arrive faster than things bought locally.
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adamajer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| debs3759 wrote: | | I find packages from China often arrive faster than things bought locally. |
I second that. Sometimes, especially Royal mail is a joke. |
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wepwawet
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Location: Seligenstadt - Germany
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In the meantime they introduced an EU-wide option. At least a first glimpse. Still does not help for AVICC or any overseas.
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jrmunro
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| Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Canada Post is exactly the same overpriced bureaucracy. |
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High_Treason
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Location: Yorkshire, UK
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@debs3759 & adamajer; Funny you should say that, because that brings us full circle to the start of the thread, kinda.
A few years back I ordered two items on the same day, one a games console from Japan and another a sound card from a warehouse barely two miles away. Unfortunately the warehouse wouldn't allow me to go and collect the item so I had to pay for 1st class post, though they posted it quickly.
Meanwhile the item from Japan was 'middle of the road' shipping, I didn't pay for the super express option and simply paid enough to insure the package. A couple of days later the mail man shows up and I expect the sound card, but open the door to find a box covered in Japanese writing. It took almost a week for that sound card to show up and, as far as I could tell, it arrived via York - around 50 miles in either direction from where it ought to have been.
Now customs on the other hand, that's a whole 'nother world of bullshit right there. Multiple stops, multiple openings and stupid charges. I once got billed several times an item's value and lost the item due to the holding period being shorter than the complaints review period, which rendered the complaint invalid. They 'apologized' for the mistake, but that didn't bring back my dev hardware. |
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