I'm expecting a package from Amazon (Etrian Odyssey IV for those who care) and I was tracking it last night. Earlier yesterday it was in Phoenix, but later was in Ontario, CA. I called Amazon because I believed the package left the U.S. Imagine my surprise when I found out that there is an Ontario, California. I had a good chuckle with the rep.
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Oddly enough, I did a similar double take today. However, I did not call the vendor. The package originated in Ontario, CA. Then I looked again and saw "Ontario, CA, United States"
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I have a feeling that very few items get mixed up between the two countries. No way that the respective postal systems or UPS mix that up because there's no way to confuse a zip code with a postal code....which of course is the most important sorting info of the address.
Zip code: 12345
Postal code: A1B 2C3
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I think it's wolfie who's ratted out some motherin' truckers who couldn't...I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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I ordered some mailleing supplies from Saskatchewan to be shipped to South Dakota. The package left Canada and landed in North Dakota - all good and fine, it should be through customs and to me within two days or so. But the gods were unhappy, and my package took a side trip through Minnesota before taking a right turn and arriving four days later in South Dakota.Figers are vicious I tell ya. They crawl up your leg and steal your belly button lint.
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When I get books from Amazon, and they go usps, they go to the city 2 hrs south of me, then past me to a city about 5 hours or more north, then west to a city a few hundred miles that way, then back to me se another few hundred miles. an extra 4-6 days travel than you would think necessary...
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Quoth dalesys View PostI think it's wolfie who's ratted out some motherin' truckers who couldn't...Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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I recently mailed (by FC International) a video to someone in Canada, starting from Mississippi...According to the tracking info, it went there via Miami >_> Whyyyy...? Last time I checked, Memphis was a lot closer, it's a major hub, and it's actually on the way to the destination x.x"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth EricKei View PostI recently mailed (by FC International) a video to someone in Canada, starting from Mississippi...According to the tracking info, it went there via Miami >_> Whyyyy...? Last time I checked, Memphis was a lot closer, it's a major hub, and it's actually on the way to the destination x.xIt's not the years in you life that count, it's the life in your years! - Quote from the office coffee cup.
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