BB4A wrote:
Ha! I have that beat.
How about USPS Flat Rate Airmail Small Package, from Green Bay, WI, to the Netherlands? Yep, first it spent 11 days at Chicago O'Hare (this is after all Guaranteed International 10 day delivery), then it left... for San Francisco. After a suitable wait, someone blew the dust off it and sent it off to Narita, Japan... Fortunately, someone in Japan owns a Globe, as it then went straight to the Netherlands.
Yes, that's right. For the trifling sum of $40, you too can have your small package circumnavigate the Earth... and it will only take a couple of months.
I swear, you can't make this s**t up, and if you did, no-one would believe you.
Ha! I have that beat. br br How about USPS Flat ... (
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I had a friend order toilet paper back when there was a shortage. The vendor said it would be 8 to 12 days delivery. (He found out later that the order was coming from China, It went from China to North Korea to a place just out side Hong Kong. The was shipped to the United States. Once it arrived in Los Angeles , then it ended up in several places (LAX, San Francisco < San Diego, Indiana and finally was delivered to his home in Texas 98 days later. It took 7 days to reach the US from China. The other 92 days it toured the US