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I was pleasantly surprised to receive a Microcosm Hit and Miss engine in 7 days from ordering to delivery...came by DHL.

BEFORE I ordered from China...I ordered a couple of items from Karsten Gintchel in Germany...that order was March 15th and he posted them by DHL within 3 days.  I followed the tracking number thru several stops within Germany...then it seemed to spend a week more in Germany going nowhere's.  It was  then "transferred to destination country" per tracking.  All progress trackingwise seemed to stop at that point...then I get an email yesterday saying it is due to be delivered tomorrow April 12th.

1 week via DHL from China
3+ weeks via DHL from Germany

Hard to fathom why the huge discrepancy.

Rog

Tried that several years ago, when i put in Kevin´s first ever "export by mail" order... You even lucked out, with nearly one month faster shipping than i Nick.

On the other end is the "Black Hole Interdimensional Package Connection", found inbetween Indiana and Jutland, where parcels rarely spend more than 4 days in transit, something Rog and i have been pretty impressed with on more than one occasion. The record for that run is 3 days, which in most cases is faster than our domestic mail system here.

So you´re spot on Rog, as there´s no rhyme or reason to it at all.

Jan, it would appear you and Rog have a private wormhole for package transport!


Great stuff!



Gil

I once had a special calendar mailed to me from my brother not 300 miles away, which didn't arrive until about six months later with several tire tracks running across the outer wrapper.

Another time I had a couple of smallish old collectors books sent to me, and when the package arrived a couple of weeks late .... it was empty. All that got delivered was the padded envelope with the whole bottom seam torn out.

Then there are all the rustbucket water filled boiler packages that I've received over the years, even though I specifically mention draining the boiler thoroughly ... to be believed!!!

There are other tales of mystery and woe that I could share here, but suffice it to say that the above examples are somewhat representative.

JK....I'm experiencing DHL shipping problems and I
hope my story is like yours.  Left Germany by DHL
in just 3 days, then the 'what the heck' zone.
It has been 27 days since it left Germany, so,
SEND IT TO ME ALREADY, for crying out loud.

Any commiseration is appreciated...
Wayne