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Re: Dopey ebay seller!
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lugnet.org.au
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:21:20 GMT
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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 message
news:39990592.D3E594D5@one.net.au...
> Hi All,
>
> Just received a package in the mail from Germany which was posted on 6th
> April by airmail!
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> Here is part of my recent reply to the seller which explains why it took
> 4 1/2 months for the parcel to arrive.
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> "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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