---- John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:30:11PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: pdml > > annuals have arrived in chicago > > > > > > > >>> 3 cheers for Mark, Christine and the USPS! > >> FedEx, actually. (If it had been USPS they'd be in Alaska by now. > >> Scratch that -- they'd be on their way to Alaska now.) > > > > If it had been UPS, they would be in Alaska by now. > > No - if it had been UPS they'd be at the trans-shipment point > waiting to be put on the truck going to Alaska. UPS would be > able to tell you this, but there'd be no way for them to change > the desination point from Alaska to Chicago; that would only be > possible once the box arrived at the Alaska distribution point. > > Then they'd ship it on to Chicago so that it arrived at the UPS > depot on a Friday night. But you wouldn't be able to pick it up > from there until delivery had been tried (and failed) on Monday. > So if you needed it on Saturday you would be out of luck. > > (Me, bitter? What gives you that idea?)
You are forgetting the two sets of international-border-crossing fees and costs you would have to pay before you were allowed to take delivery. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
