Yesterday I found a UPS failed delivery notification slip in front of the house I live in (it was lying on the ground in the dirt and molted snow - pure luck that I noticed that at all...). I checked the tracking number on UPS website - it is a 0.1 kg package from Shanghai, China.
Now the problem is that I don't expect anything from Shanghai! From Hong Kong maybe, but not Shanghai... And 0.1 kg? It is something small, yet someone considered it important enough to send by UPS - Intl. Express shipping cost of even such small package from China to Poland is 50 - 75 USD!!!
Should I be scared?...
Pawel
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UPS package from Shanghai-Should I be scared?
Vodnik
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Posted: Monday, March 14, 2005 - 09:05 PM UTC
jimbrae
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Posted: Monday, March 14, 2005 - 09:30 PM UTC
In the words of the movie advertising,
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..Jim :-) :-) :-) :-) Be afraid, be very afraid..
Vodnik
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Posted: Monday, March 14, 2005 - 10:56 PM UTC
The package has arrived... There was an error in the UPS tracking system. In fact it was more than 0.1 kg. I would say it is between 0.5 and 1 kg.
And these are new review samples from Voyager - quite a surprise, as I haven't heard anything from them in last six months!
Pawel
And these are new review samples from Voyager - quite a surprise, as I haven't heard anything from them in last six months!
Pawel
TankCarl
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Posted: Monday, March 14, 2005 - 11:53 PM UTC
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Probuilder
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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 08:01 AM UTC
"Got Anthrax"
ShermiesRule
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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 08:28 AM UTC
SARS!!!!
MLD
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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 09:13 AM UTC
Have you got any replacement parts on the way from DML?
In addition to the specific part I needed that they sent from California, I got an entire A sprue sent from China about 2 weeks later.
It came in a Mid-sized box full of shredded paper and the lone sprue.
Mike
In addition to the specific part I needed that they sent from California, I got an entire A sprue sent from China about 2 weeks later.
It came in a Mid-sized box full of shredded paper and the lone sprue.
Mike
mikeli125
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Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 10:21 AM UTC
Asian bird flu
3442
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Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 01:08 PM UTC
if there sending it by ups... and spendign so much money on shipping, it msut be a kg of cocaine, have any conections outside of the modeling world?
Frank
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