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    Last week I ordered a 512g Micro SD card online from Amazon AU on 15th Jan. Cost said $140 delivered..(did not mention AU$ or US$),. Best I could find in oz was $238.00 while Office Works wanted $263.00.

    I opted to go Amazon.AU...only to later think that I might have purchased from USA at US prices.

    It arrived arrived on 24th..postage was form US and I kept watching my bank statement waiting for converted US cost to appear. To my relief it was for the AU$140 and not what I thought was going to be USA$...

    but for it to get in one week I thought was good.

    Well I thought I'd order another one this time a 256g ...Amazon Au again came up the cheapest and this time I ordered on wednesday 22nd...well blow me down its getting delivered today ...i am guessing that this cant be from US but nonetheless ordered wednesday and being delivered friday same week is excellent...lift ya game Oz Post

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    Hi Richard,

    I would run a program to actually check the card size ! Many of these cheap cards have much smaller capacity than your computer reports. Its easy to program the card to announce what ever size you want it to be.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    I have purchased items from the US . I also purchase items from Australia. In freight by post,the yanks beat us hollow, except by costs.

    With the help of the tracking I can work out that the transit days from US to Australia are some 3 to 4 days.

    Items purchased in Australia usually from the Southern cities taken an average of 8 days to travel from there to North Queensland.

    The pitiful excuses from Australia post do not wash. Comparisons between USPS and Aust post are:

    Populations. USPS 650million Australia Post 25 million
    Transit Kms USPS 6000 Kms Australia Post 2000- 2700 Kms
    Transit days USPS 3 to to 4 Australia. Post 7 days plus

    The above figures are what I have calculated to my home in Nth Queensland.

    Australia Post does not give a rats about people outside capital cities. I sincerely hope they end up being sold to private industry.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaronJ View Post
    Hi Richard,

    I would run a program to actually check the card size ! Many of these cheap cards have much smaller capacity than your computer reports. Its easy to program the card to announce what ever size you want it to be.
    I will do that.....I have a lot of music files that I can load onto the cars...that should give an indication.

    The cards are Samsung evo and appear to be in Samsung packaging....but will load up anyways to confirm. If not Amazon will be my next port of call.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Items purchased in Australia usually from the Southern cities taken an average of 8 days to travel from there to North Queensland.
    That's about the same as eastern states to Perth with my last 3 purchased each taking, 7, 8 and 9 days respectively to arrive.

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    Hi Richard,

    Quote Originally Posted by eskimo View Post
    I will do that.....I have a lot of music files that I can load onto the cards...that should give an indication.

    The cards are Samsung evo and appear to be in Samsung packaging....but will load up anyways to confirm. If not Amazon will be my next port of call.
    I've been caught twice now by this con ! I needed a USB stick whilst in France and bought a couple of 64 Gb "integral" brand, about 2/3 thirds of the UK price. They work just fine until you start to get "Not enough space" messages. The system tells you that you have 64 Gb. So when you copy the files off and find that you only have 16 Gb of files, you realise that something is amiss.

    The way I test mine is to copy a fixed size file, over and over until DD runs out of space and tells you how much has been copied. DD just caries on copying regardless of what the system says, until it cannot copy any more.
    Best Regards:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post

    Items purchased in Australia usually from the Southern cities taken an average of 8 days to travel from there to North Queensland.

    The pitiful excuses from Australia post do not wash. Comparisons between USPS and Aust post are:

    Populations. USPS 650million Australia Post 25 million
    Transit Kms USPS 6000 Kms Australia Post 2000- 2700 Kms
    Transit days USPS 3 to to 4 Australia. Post 7 days plus

    The above figures are what I have calculated to my home in Nth Queensland.

    Australia Post does not give a rats about people outside capital cities. I sincerely hope they end up being sold to private industry.

    Grahame
    AU post has got slower over time. I work on five days from Sydney and at least seven from Melbourne and three from Brisbane.

    I think it is because it is all uphill all the way according to the map. I know sending stuff south you can cut the transit times by 50%.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    I have purchased items from the US . I also purchase items from Australia. In freight by post, the yanks beat us hollow, except by costs.

    Australia Post does not give a rats about people outside capital cities. I sincerely hope they end up being sold to private industry.

    Grahame
    Be careful what you wish for, private industry is profit driven, not service driven, and guess where their profits come from.... not regional Australia. Most things that the government has sold which had been built up by publicly owned entities, have been a disaster for the average person IMO, power utilities and airports being 2 example which come to mind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ropetangler View Post
    Be careful what you wish for, private industry is profit driven, not service driven, and guess where their profits come from.... not regional Australia. Most things that the government has sold which had been built up by publicly owned entities, have been a disaster for the average person IMO, power utilities and airports being 2 example which come to mind.

    What Ropetangler said,

    I sent a pen to Cloncurry, few week later, I was ask when I was sending it.

    Then there was a daily Greyhound bus from Mt Isa, Cloncurry 100 km east of Mt Isa, total distance 771 km.
    I took the receipt to out P.O. to see if they could track it.
    They explained to me, it went south to Alice Spring then to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, after that she didn't know how it finished its journey.

    Like wise a parcel I got from Brisbane sent road freight, I expected it to go north to Rockhampton then east to Isa, then Tennant.
    It went Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Spring, Darwin then back to Tennant.



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