Twitley
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how that makes it so slow, you live in a lost city.
No show AGAIN with the parcel from parcelfarce* so gave 'em a ring (and a rollicking). Turn's out despite the fact that I paid promptly on the thursday and the email receipt said next day delivery the system hadn't updated itself and got stuck. Person I spoke to at the other end said they've manually overridden it now so should get it tomorrow. 3-4 days to the uk from the us, then it goes tits up. A week stuck up in Coventry, then another couple of days waiting for the letter with the reference number and then it gets stuck in system and falls over! On top of that they then have the cheek to send out another reminder that you have a parcel that needs import fees to be paid before delivery!
*Not a typo, that was the politest thing that I could think to call that shower.
The customs man. I know how it feels. I'm having the same experience myself with receiving my Spartan. It's arrived in the country, but stuck there since early October. Very frustrating, moreover it isn't within our control.
It gets better this does! Parcelfarce finally attempted to make a delivery. Sadly (but not surprisingly) no one was in so they left a note. Did they leave it in a secure place (ala amazon)? Did they leave it with the neighbours? Nope they left it up the local post office. Fine, but when someone went to collect it there was no sign of it. "Might be worth checking back after 6pm when they've been" was the response.
I am terribly sorry David, I've had similar experiences before. I just finished taping a printed note onto my front door and my garage door. My UPS man refuses to leave packages even after I sign off on the little slip. I work like 2 minutes from my house so I printed a note that said essentially "call me at XXXXXXX and i'll meet you at my house or right next to it in a few minutes to sign off, I just work down the street." Last time I signed 3 of those little "leave it" slips but he kept just putting new ones up. I've also had UPS lose $1000 packages. You would expect the government run post to be worse but I've never had USPS lose a package and they always get it there on time and they're super friendly everytime I go in there, they're also much faster than UPS/fedex. The guy who shipped my Hugo shipped it UPS and for the price he paid, he could have paid 1/2 shipped USPS and I would have already had Hugo2.
The choice of colors are not simple for the Zeus XRA, I really want to let empire ears by giving only in inscription, to use dark color and a tranparante for the shell.
What do you think about where you have idea of colors?
Thank you
Funny as I'm in the final stages of figuring out what colors I'm going to go with. Translucent vs opaque shells? What to inscribe ie Name and cell number if they get lost or just initials? Probably carbon fiber, but then red, blue or purple shells with them? Just so many amazing choices for sure. Their site seems better than many others I've seen, so that's a help too.