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Dopey ebay seller!
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lugnet.org.au
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:55:46 GMT
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Hi All,
Just received a package in the mail from Germany which was posted on 6th
April by airmail!
Here is part of my recent reply to the seller which explains why it took
4 1/2 months for the parcel to arrive.
"When you posted it, you did not mention "Australia" in the address
and put
my phone number in the postcode position on the boxes mailing
label.
Of course, the post office treated the first five (5) digits as a
post code
and the incorrectly assumed the destination country was the USA.
So the parcel went to a town in the US with a postcode of 07337.
I'd given up hope of ever seeing this parcel, so miracles do sometimes
happen.
The parcel contained a complete 130 and 131.
Mark H.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Dopey ebay seller!
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| That shows you how different some foreign countries are. I usually just put my whole address in block form, and include anything they will need for it. Usually gets here. :-) Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Mark Harrison <harro1@one.net.au> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.au)
| | | Re: Dopey ebay seller!
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| Good tactic some have developed to avoid this problem is to simply cut out the address which the buyer sent, and stick it on the front of the package. This way, any errors are the fault of the buyer. Perhaps this guy could use the tip, Although I (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.au)
| | | Re: Dopey ebay seller!
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| (...) In what way does this make the seller dopey? I have to agree with the other responders, the onus is on the buyer to make it easy for the seller to get the buyer's address right. (and conversely, the onus is on the seller to make the buyer's (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.org.au)
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