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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

My order from Karsten Gintschel was shipped via DHL on March 18th, tracking ended three days later with "transferred to destination country", then nothing so I finally sent him an email yesterday to see if he knew more but turned out he didn't but thought it would be soon. Sure enough got an email today from USPS that the package would be here Saturday - must have taken a three week customs enforced holiday!