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S. Petrukhin:
You know, we in Russia very often scold the Russian post for slowness and even loss, but our post is very cheap, about 10 times cheaper than DHL. It turns out that expensive delivery does not mean quality. However, I have never had any problems with DHL, FedEx, UPS in Russia they can not leave the parcel on the porch.

But I had a problem with SF-Express delivery - it's not much cheaper than DHL, but slower than regular mail. Usually DHL from China delivers PCB in 4-5 days, SF-Express delivered more than 30 days, besides some strange way through Finland, distorted the Invoice and I had problems with customs.
rob.manderson:

--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on December 31, 2020, 03:03:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on December 31, 2020, 02:58:29 pm ---The MM.DD may be explained by the way the English language seems to invert everything (adjective before noun), but I am unsure if other countries have this as well (I didn't look).

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I'm pretty sure the US is the only place to do it.

Having lived a quarter of a century in the UK and then another in the US, I just give up when I see dates written DD/MM or MM/DD unless the day of the month >12. I always write dates DD-MMM-YY or DD-MMM-YYYY (e.g., 01-Jan-21), though not always with the hyphens.

I think the Japanese way is the most sensible.

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This is one reason why I prefer military format (01 Apr 1978).  Learned it at Hewlett Packard Australia - their solution to the confusion in date formats.  All our internal software (it was all internal software in 1980) used military format and it just made sense.  That said, the Japanese way does have it's advantages - it sorts properly  :)
tooki:
I always use ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) in file names, since an alphabetical sort will be chronological. It makes sense to use it in lots of situations.
S. Petrukhin:

--- Quote from: tooki on January 01, 2021, 12:50:24 am ---I always use ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) in file names, since an alphabetical sort will be chronological. It makes sense to use it in lots of situations.

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No one bothers to store the date inside as it is convenient for sorting, in fact, it is stored as a linear number, but it is shown to the user in a convenient format. Windows, for example, stupidly sorts the date as a string, it's not clear to me.  :)
vad:

--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on December 31, 2020, 01:52:29 pm ---Yes, we write the date according to the degree of importance: after all, more often we need to know the current day, not the year: dd.mm.yyyy

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So the same applies to address format in many countries:

The recipient is the most important
Then the street address
Then the rest

With one exception, all countries that I lived in follow that format. The exception is Russia :)

Most mistakes happen at local post office level. Every once in a while we are getting our mail delivered to neighbor’s mailbox, and time to time they get our mail. I never had an incident with my mail going to a wrong country or state, despite the fact that there are Cambridge towns in many US states, in UK and Australia.
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