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[Bob Bradlee]

When Franking Clerks go Postal
or
Some say tubes and some say valves...

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:07:08 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

>William Donzelli wrote:

>> Bingo!
>> 
>> I get the most problems from the guys that buy audio tubes.

>Why would you buy audio tubes, or valves as we call them over here, from 
>eBay, when they're cheap enough in Maplins?

>Gordon.

Because Maplins is much closer to Stonehenge than the great majority
of the people purchasing tubes from William on ebay (like me). 

>From my prospective it is a big pond to cross, to a land where a pound is closer to two 
bucks than a dollar.  Not to mention the franking costs to post anything of weight :)

Surface post from the Jolly ole  land of Merlin,  back here to Central Ohio is running between 
40 and 45 days by slow boat. I can have a full container shipped in about the same time, 
most likely end up on the same boat. I had a seller just this spring post a drawing tube
containing a rare plate of the first aerial photo ever taken of Stonehenge sent by ship !
I took about 2 months to get here @%$#^....... 
For about a fiver (or about half that, if your  think Sterling) one can have a Kilo of near 
instant gratification delivered to the door in about two days with electronic tracking. 

On a side note I received a small package (about 65 grams)  from the Netherlands yesterday,
It is inspiration for an art project I am working on regarding some core values. 
I took 7 days, an eternity when you are waiting for a good example of hard core from the 
Netherlands :)

The postmark was for 1,74  I am assuming euros. I just checked it would be $2.40 to
Airmail it back,   

On a personal Note: Thanks Henk, it looks great. I got some interesting closeups at 60x and 200x
that may work. I will post later when I get a chance to put them in an album. Number one Son is doing 
the marriage thing this weekend so I have been slow getting back to you ...  

Got to run ... SheWhoMustBeObayed has other plans for me :)

Later
Bob