[#offtopic][soapbox][#offtopic]
This supposed to be about trains not ships!
And I bet someone says you’re advertising! [:O]
Sure makes a nice change from all the [|(]“It took too long”[:(!] threads though! [(-D]
Hey! My Walthers’ parcels take 6 to 8 weeks to get to the middle of the country! [:-,]
If it’s moving by truck or train, it’s a shipment. If it’s aboard a ship, it’s cargo.
Anyone who thinks that delivery people in the US have a problem should have visited Japan in the 1960’s. Houses weren’t numbered by location, but rather by date of construction! It was entirely possible for #15 to be located between #4 and #72, while #17 was on a different street several hundred meters away. The only way for a stranger to figure out where to go was to look at the map on the wall of the local police box. (Asking the neighbors didn’t work.)
To protect myself against problems, I rent a box at the local branch Post Office. I don’t want anything more significant than pizza coupons to be delivered to the street mailbox, and I certainly don’t want anything to be left on my doorstep unsecured. (Trust everybody - but cut the cards yourself!)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
twcenterprises Is this your street???
Mapquest is crap!!! It will often show a street…where it isn’t! Sometimes many miles away.
DHL is crap also!!!
I know this because I worked for them for two days. They got me to work for them by lying about the money…twice! After the second day I called to see if my old job was still available, it was so I told them I’d be in tomorrow.
This package must be cursed. About an hour after I posted my original post, FedEx finally moved it, for delivery to the USPS for final delivery. Now it has been sitting in a post office since Thursday morning. Every time someone I know has had a package delayed like this it has had significant damage.