[chbot] Chinavasion and airmail...

[Chris Hellyar]

'Urro,

To be fair German efficiency combined with Fedex is usually excellent, 
although I'm picking you're biased towards the former. :-)

It's DHL that do my head in...  I am constantly amazed at how 
frustrating they can be!



On 03/01/14 15:59, Helmut Walle wrote:
> Cost doesn't matter. You did still get what you would expect, though: 
> German efficiency in the first case, and in the second case the 
> American service provider failing on a supposedly simple job (but 
> wait, now that they've lost it, you've got an insurance claim, and I 
> am sure you will find yourself before a US court in no time at all - 
> and then may God have mercy on your poor soul! (Oh, and it doesn't 
> matter if you don't believe in either, because they've got enough 
> faith over there to cover you in that regard as well...))
>
> (-:
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Helmut.
>
> On 3/01/2014 3:14 p.m., Chris Hellyar wrote:
>> Duh, missed the punch line..  The $5 Euro postage item arrived this 
>> morning...
>>
>> moving on.
>>
>> On 03/01/14 15:13, Chris Hellyar wrote:
>>> Similar, but different source country...
>>>
>>> Ordered a pile of small antenna bits from a company in Germany on 
>>> the 22nd of December, paid for 'economy shipping - German Post 
>>> office' of $5 Euro not expecting anything to be fast this time of year.
>>>
>>> In contrast, I ordered a electronic module from another German 
>>> company back in the 1st week of December, Only shipping option 
>>> Fedex.  They lost it, and are processing the insurance claim now.
>>>
>>> Sometimes you just don't get what you pay for with shipping.
>>>
>>> Oh, and happy new year, don't post to here very often these days. :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Chris H.
>>>
>>>
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