Raminator wrote:I'm just impressed that what you wanted was in stock! Everything interesting seems to be sold out all the time.
You're right there. There were just two items I wanted, that happened to be in stock. Two out of Twenty. I imagine a build using parts from Axel could be a protracted one; though most Axel references here have been positive ones.. Luckily, like many here, I seem to have several projects on the go at the same time...
As for the thoughts on postcodes etc.thanks; but,.. on a recent visit to a friend down south, in the course of a week she got the mail for three other people. The only thing the addresses had in common was the house number. Everything else was wrong. Hmm.. I suppose if Royal Mail and Parcel Farce will employ the walking dead, what can you expect? If you google: 'failed delivery', 'parcel lost in transit', etc.,the entries run to hundreds of pages.
By the same token, my house name is of a village on the Isle of Skye. Tracking a parcel, I noted that it was 'undeliverable'. Later it emerged..much later, in fact, that some 1/4 wit had sent it
to Skye...
I take the point about circumventing the system with a direct email, and paying by PayPal. Perhaps I'll give that approach a spin. Couriers invent all sorts of excuses for mislaying deliveries, and I don't want to add to them by giving them a weird address. A laptop I ordered recently disappeared in transit...vanished into the ether or some other unreachable place ( the carrier's shed, perhaps?.
) Amazon tracking froze on: "it's on the way..".but the wee blue progress bar never quite made it to the end..:
" A replacement
did eventually turn up. In one piece too. Considering the battering the packing had endured; this was a minor miracle!
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
All at once, as if in some hint of a possible future; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had been airbrushed out of existence!!
