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24th Jan 2020, 10:24 AM #1Most Valued Member
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Freight times
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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24th Jan 2020, 09:48 PM #2
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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25th Jan 2020, 09:04 AM #3
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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26th Jan 2020, 10:28 AM #4Most Valued Member
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26th Jan 2020, 11:38 AM #5Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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26th Jan 2020, 08:32 PM #6
Hi Richard,
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:
Baron J.
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26th Jan 2020, 11:03 PM #8Diamond Member
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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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27th Jan 2020, 04:12 PM #9
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.
Ratty 05/2004 -05/07/2010 COOPER 01/08/1998-31/01/2012
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