I am in Seattle. I have not had a problem. I get about 1 package a day as I have a bad habit of buying far more items than I will ever have time for the projects they are intended for. In fact, I have been very lucky in that I am getting items even faster than expected - stuff I haven't expected for at least another week or so after I get them. Only 2 packages have ever been lost coming to me, and both of those actually at customs. Hard to complain with the seller since tracking obviously shows at US customs. It's amazing how cheap everything is from China, etc. So, I took on the practice of double purchasing the same items from 2 diff people just to make sure I get what I want. With my luck of delivery and speed, I will cut back on this tactic - no sense on having 10x LCD displays when I only needed 2. 5 should have been enough overpurchase, but at $3 each shipped with i2c backpacks, how can you say no to these types of deals? :) Michail
In a message dated 3/30/2016 9:08:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, neonixie-l@googlegroups.com writes: In the past, I had been complaining of the German Customs Service for holding and delaying delivery of parcels. Well, its seems, lately, that the US Customs Service has adopted the same bad habit. In the last couple of months, parcels coming my way, from outside the US, have been held at a customs warehouse for typically a week. Thru the magic of "tracking numbers", I've noticed an expected parcel sitting at one place, inside this country, for a week, before progressing to its next station. Most of the time, I try to buy stuff within the national boarders. For someone that lives near a major port, like Los Angeles, as I do, that usually works out. Especially with stuff from China. The whole San Gabriel Valley (or at least the section between state route 60, and Interstate 10) has turned into one big warehouse of Chinese goods. So if I want to buy cheap USB cables or plastic filament (for my 3D printer), I can find a vendor less than 30 miles away. But sometimes, I need something that's not locally found, and I have to bite the bullet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/418b6b.737bbbe.442d5803%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
