"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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It arrived today from Amazon, with some post marks on the box to suggest
it
came from Hong Kong.

Matt, was that surface mail? How many weeks (days?) did it take to
reach you?

I don't think anybody really understands how Amazon works. They have
these so-called stores in Japan, Britain, France, Germany, and Canada,
but we suspect that they are really broom closets in Washington State,
with maybe a small warehouse in the host country. Of them all,
Amazon.co.uk seems to be the closest to an actual operation. And
Canada, it's generally agreed, doesn't exist at all, but is just a
business model to handle Canadian dollars and Canadian postage.
(Probably Jeff Bezos drives the books across the border after work

It went via "Standard International Shipping" whatever that means. My order
was placed on the 27th, it shipped on the 29th and arrived here in Sydney
yesterday (Tuesday 10th about lunch time), and I finished reading it 10
minutes ago (dont tell my boss I was reading it at work).

All the amazon info says it shipped from the US ("std-intl-us-aus" on the
invoice). There is a sticker on the box saying "Postage Paid / Hong Kong /
Port Paye".

I cant wait for Ed's next book.

Matt.