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Is Spacex now making deliveries for eBay?
Jun 17, 2020 16:48:17   #
BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten
 

I bought a Minolta lens from a private seller in Japan on eBay at 4:30 PM on Monday the 15th. It came with free delivery and price seemed quite fair.
It was on my porch at 10:30AM today. 42 hours Japan to Michigan, Wow!

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Jun 17, 2020 17:17:40   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
BassmanBruce wrote:

I bought a Minolta lens from a private seller in Japan on eBay at 4:30 PM on Monday the 15th. It came with free delivery and price seemed quite fair.
It was on my porch at 10:30AM today. 42 hours Japan to Michigan, Wow!


You sure the seller wasn't in Japan, Missouri? Yes there is an unincorporated community with that name. And 1860 to 1908 it even had a post office.
Nah! If the lens had come USPS from Missouri to Michigan you wouldn't be getting it for a week or so yet.

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Jun 18, 2020 17:41:35   #
rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
 
BassmanBruce wrote:

I bought a Minolta lens from a private seller in Japan on eBay at 4:30 PM on Monday the 15th. It came with free delivery and price seemed quite fair.
It was on my porch at 10:30AM today. 42 hours Japan to Michigan, Wow!

Even before Covid, overseas delivery was very uneven. If they happened to find room in an airplane belly, it could come almost over-night.

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