15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
6:44 a.m.
When Franking Clerks go Postal
or
Some say tubes and some say valves...
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:07:08 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
William Donzelli wrote:
> Bingo!
>
> I get the most problems from the guys that buy audio tubes.
Why would you buy audio tubes, or valves as we call
them over here, from
eBay, when they're cheap enough in Maplins?
Gordon.
Because Maplins is much closer to Stonehenge than the great majority
of the people purchasing tubes from William on ebay (like me).
From my prospective it is a big pond to cross, to a
land where a pound is closer to two
bucks than a dollar. Not to mention the
franking costs to post anything of weight :)
Surface post from the Jolly ole land of Merlin, back here to Central Ohio is running
between
40 and 45 days by slow boat. I can have a full container shipped in about the same time,
most likely end up on the same boat. I had a seller just this spring post a drawing tube
containing a rare plate of the first aerial photo ever taken of Stonehenge sent by ship !
I took about 2 months to get here @%$#^.......
For about a fiver (or about half that, if your think Sterling) one can have a Kilo of
near
instant gratification delivered to the door in about two days with electronic tracking.
On a side note I received a small package (about 65 grams) from the Netherlands
yesterday,
It is inspiration for an art project I am working on regarding some core values.
I took 7 days, an eternity when you are waiting for a good example of hard core from the
Netherlands :)
The postmark was for 1,74 I am assuming euros. I just checked it would be $2.40 to
Airmail it back,
On a personal Note: Thanks Henk, it looks great. I got some interesting closeups at 60x
and 200x
that may work. I will post later when I get a chance to put them in an album. Number one
Son is doing
the marriage thing this weekend so I have been slow getting back to you ...
Got to run ... SheWhoMustBeObayed has other plans for me :)
Later
Bob