16 Oct
2005
16 Oct
'05
5:49 a.m.
Bob Bradlee wrote:
Well, I'm sure that will sort out.
Because Maplins is much closer to Stonehenge than the
great majority
of the people purchasing tubes from William on ebay (like me).
My nearest Maplins is in a different country from Stonehenge.
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
Ah, but Merlin was English, wasn't he? Considering it's supposed to be
the same Royal Mail, they're bloody useless down south.
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 @%$#^.......
That's a very long time to ship stuff. There are people who have
single-handedly sailed the Atlantic in a dinghy faster than that!
Gordon