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Re: ebay rant
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lugnet.market.auction
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Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:10:02 GMT
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"John Radtke" <jaradtke@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GH6sJo.H2B@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.market.auction, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> > Why does it take two trips?
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> > Dont the US post office have an on-line postal calculator?
> > Enter the weight, desintation, method of shipment and voila the price.
> >
> > regards
> > lawrence
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> Aye, there's the rub. To enter the weight you have to know the weight.
> Most people don't have more than a bathroom scale at home.
What?
No one cooks in the USA?
I already know the answer to that one - No.
Guess you could take your lego to the resturant and ask them to weight it for you :-)
regards
lawrence
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| "Lawrence Wilkes" <lawrence@thewilkesf...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:GH6y40.4n6@lugnet.com... (...) news:GH6sJo.H2B@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Even if you know the weight it can still be a crap shoot on international packages. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) Food scales don't work well, the platforms are usually too small. I use a Pelouze PE10 postal scale, $84 at OfficeMax.com, they usually have on-line coupons (check FlamingoWorld, I think I ended up paying $50 delivered). Its a 10-lb capacity (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) Aye, there's the rub. To enter the weight you have to know the weight. Most people don't have more than a bathroom scale at home. I don't even like that much inaccuracy to determine Priority weights to the nearest pound, and it's virtually (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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