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DavidOck

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Morning, mixers.

A brief town run, mostly to pick up new glasses.

Still too dang dry, but temps are staying near normal, and, well, it is our dry season. Although the July average rain is 0.30 and our 0.00 is a bit off...

Age? Well, I don't remember the 60s, but my DL says I was there ;)

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Sorry that your package failed to pass security checking in our local, and returned. We informed our post office to reship it.

2 orders I placed on April 17th...each did that 3 times! They finally made it out of China on the 4th try. Since then, I paid $2-3 S/H on 2 orders in early June, to have them sent USPS Expeditied Service to the US. They didn't bounce around at all and took 9 days and 11 days to get to me. Did the same thing with my last order. It was shipped last Thursday, July 15th, and got to Los Angeles already on Tuesday afternoon.
 
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2 orders I placed on April 17th...each did that 3 times! They finally made it out of China on the 4th try. Since then, I paid $2-3 S/H on 2 orders in early June, to have them sent USPS Expeditied Service to the US. They didn't bounce around at all and took 9 days and 11 days to get to me. Did the same thing with my last order. It was shipped July 15th and got to Los Angeles already on Tuesday afternoon.
Where those fasttech orders that arrived in 9 days? Because that might be a record.
 

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    2 orders I placed on April 17th...each did that 3 times! They finally made it out of China on the 4th try. Since then, I paid $2-3 S/H on 2 orders in early June, to have them sent USPS Expeditied Service to the US. They didn't bounce around at all and took 9 days and 11 days to get to me. Did the same thing with my last order. It was shipped July 15th and got to Los Angeles already on Tuesday afternoon.
    I just ordered one 5ml new style Dvarw using your shipping method. Maybe it will get here first.
     

    JCinFLA

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    Where those Fasttech orders that arrived in 9 days? Because that might be a record.

    Yep! All of them in my post were FT orders.
    Customer Service lady recommended that I should use the "USPS Expedited Service to the US" on all my orders...to avoid the problems the 2 orders had with bouncing around 3 times before leaving China. So far, it's worked very well, and the little $2-3 I've paid for it each time is a drop in the bucket compared to US vendor S/H since March. :thumbs:
     

    FranC

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    SSHHHHHHH! It’s a secret! :lol:

    My china orders are all hitting a week, so I should see some updating soon, hopefully.
    I'm waiting for two orders to leave NJ. My White Z80 and the Boxx.
     

    Redbird11

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    Yep! All of them in my post were FT orders.
    Customer Service lady recommended that I should use the "USPS Expedited Service to the US" on all my orders...to avoid the problems the 2 orders had with bouncing around 3 times before leaving China.
    I've always used that method and never gotten them that fast. I think around 2.5 to 3 weeks is the fastest I have ever gotten anything from FT. Not that I'm complaining. Anything I buy from FT I expect it to take some time.
     

    NolaMel

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    I'm waiting for two orders to leave NJ. My White Z80 and the Boxx.
    So far, FT is in the lead, if it doesn’t get stuck in Carson, Calif. HC and Sourcemore had usps labels created a couple days ago, so I expect them to show up on 17Track soon.
     

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    Good morning random folks.:) Have you any plans today?

    I have a grocery order in and ready for hubby to pick up later, and am in the process of trying to clean out the fridge, I'm about half done.

    After that, if I can still move, I'm going to make the cake and mousse to start hubby's birthday cake. However, just in case I can't do it I've ordered 4 cupcakes from the bakery... if I find I don't need them we can always give them to my mother in law or the neighbors.

    I always prefer to make the cake myself though because I do a better job... I'm a cake snob.. haha.

    It's a strawberry fest for the cake though! Strawberry is his favorite and I've bought strawberry cheesecake ice cream for on the side. Can't have birthday cake without ice cream!

    Other than that? Nothing... absolutely nothing. :)
     

    JCinFLA

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    I've always used that method and never gotten them that fast. I think around 2.5 to 3 weeks is the fastest I have ever gotten anything from FT.

    That's weird!

    My last order that reached Los Angeles on Tuesday, which was only 5 days...actually has a chance to beat the 9 days...if the FT middleman in CA will get going and relabel it, then hand it off to the USPS. ;)
     

    FranC

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    So far, FT is in the lead, if it doesn’t get stuck in Carson, Calif. HC and Sourcemore had usps labels created a couple days ago, so I expect them to show up on 17Track soon.
    We ordered from the same 3 places.
     

    hittman

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    Just work stuff and going to Target.

    How bout you?

    Did you find a laptop? I bought a fairly inexpensive Lenovo a couple months ago and it's ok but could be a little better. When I'm working with a lot of images it can get a little slow.

    I find it funny that my sourcemore order and my HC order have identical tracking.

    I think that a lot of the companies use the same shipping company and they got out in the same shipping container. I've had items ordered days apart arrive on the same day many times.
     

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