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10 days ago, from those united of states, various people dropped into the mail system one canon lens, a bunch of filters, a shade and i can't remember what else.

between the american and canadian post offices, customs and some very tired sled dogs i still have not received one package.

what makes it take so long?
i have no patience for this.
(maybe you noticed?)

'after this regularly scheduled rant please return to your normal posting routine'

joe:bang:
 
Joe, I hate to tell you this, but last spring I ordered a part for my motorcycle from Califonia, and it took 10 weeks to reach me in Ontario! Most of the time the package was held up at Canada Customs. (I guess they were waiting to see if it'd explode or something.)
 
so the metal hood for the 100 lens, the series vi red filter for the 50/1.8 and the red filter for the 75/2.5 showed up today. still waiting for the actual lens to show. i ordered this stuff days after the lens.
i bet there is a canadian customs officer stalking a bull moose with my lens attached to his camera.
he's likely checking to make sure it can't be used in some sort of terrorist plot.

oh well, i hope rover is right and monday will be the day cause that's the mail for this week.


damn.......

joe
 
oh well, i hope rover is right and monday will be the day cause that's the mail for this week.

Rover has probably bribed the mailman with a percentage of his pool winnings... 😉
 
That is bad, and if you complain to someone they will inspect all your mail, not just the boxes with cylindrical metallic objects in them.
 
the lens is still not here but the 2 filters i also 'won' off ebay A WEEK LATER have arrived nice and safe at my door step!!

oh well, now the canonet has a nice yellow filter to go along with the original canon shade and one of my oly rc cams has a yellow filter also.
things are looking up.

joe
 
You can see a bunch of guys huddled over an x-ray image of the package.

"Ya think it's a bomb?"

" I dunno."

"Poke it."

"NO, I ain't gonna poke it. You Poke it!"

.....
 
It took me about 1 week to receive my Pentacon 300/4 from Kiev, it was send Sep 28/04, received today . It took about the same for my MTO 500mm mirror.

My seller did send it by registered air mail tho.

I'm in Toronto, so I'm a bit closer to Europe. I have had packages take longer to get to me from Winnipeg than the Ukraine?!?!?
 
Bring back the pony express, hell no!
You have any idea how long it will take for Rover's Bessa R to be shipped from Connecticut, USA to Auckland NZ!? Plus I don't think ponies can swim, so I have visions of the USPS mounted employee trying to coax his mount into the North Pacific and drowning taking the camera with him...

...Which reminds me, I wonder what horrors the Milford branch of the NZPost have in store for new baby. I still remember the phone call when my first Bessa R arrived at Milford
"Hello, Mr.S Todd?"
"Yes..."
"We think we have a problem with a camera what was shipped to you..."
"Oh-no, what's happened?"
"We think someone's broken it"
"How?"
"Somebody has ripped the lens off it and we can see all the inside parts"
"The camera doesn't come with a lens, you're not touching the 'inside' parts are you?!?"
"Hmmm..."

Stu 🙂

PS. Yes there was a finger print on the shutter curtain, but NZPost paid to get it checked before I used it.
 
The race is on, the R made it to the post office on 10/7. Right now it is probably spending a sunny layover in Hawaii.
 
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