Cub Driver wrote:
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

UK version won't even guarantee to send multiple items out from the same
depot! You order, say, 5 books all listed as in stock, at least 1 will turn
out to be OOS and the other 4 usually turn up in 3 boxes spread over 2 days.
The final book turns up a week later in a box big enough for a small horse.
Truely bizarre way of running a mail order business if you ask me. They do
very good packaging though, never had an item damaged with them.

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James...
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