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| tunk:
You could see if https://parcelsapp.com/ provides more detailed info. For ebay orders it often does. |
| Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on February 14, 2024, 03:28:47 am ---I was almost arrested in Toronto (I was detained in a holding area at the airport, but not in jail per se) for trying to enter illegally with a group of 3 others who had passports Fortunately, I was leading that team. We were there to visit a vendor in Etobicoke for a $5 million purchase (1990's dollars). The Customs officials wanted me to have a work permit, as it was not just a visit. I volunteered to get on the next flight back to the US. After quite a delay, they let me visit. The vendor didn't get the sale. --- End quote --- I never came close to getting arrested but one time they almost denied me entry into Canada. Back in the days (early 1980s) when you weren't required to have a passport to travel between Canada and the US I made a lot of trips back and forth but on one particular trip, Canadian Immigration decided that I needed a work permit, which I didn't have. I let the girl at the airport immigration rant and rave for a bit and then took out my Canadian birth certificate and showed her that I was in, fact, a Canadian citizen even though I carried a US id. Then she became FURIOUS that I hadn't told her that to begin with. I simply looked at her and said "Well you never asked. The DND was not happy to hear that immigration had tried to keep me out of the country and they made sure that it NEVER happened again. We set up a new aerospace company in Canada and then sold them $36 Million in military Electro-Optics. I eventually spent nearly two years there getting the new company up to speed. I made friends with a lot of the locals in Quebec and I had a grand time up there. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: Miti on February 13, 2024, 11:52:37 pm ---Looks like you do care. --- End quote --- Read before posting: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/forum-rules-please-read/ |
| Miti:
--- Quote from: thm_w on February 14, 2024, 10:23:32 pm --- --- Quote from: Miti on February 13, 2024, 11:52:37 pm ---Looks like you do care. --- End quote --- Read before posting: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/forum-rules-please-read/ --- End quote --- Chill out man, there was no political intention in this post and nobody, other than you, saw it that way. I was just looking for a possible explanation to the multiple parcels that disappeared in a black hole after reaching Canada in relatively short time. It was just a rant. And to show, NOT YOU but Dave and the moderators, that there was no political intention, I removed that. I hope this makes you happy. |
| Simon:
carrier services are generally awful. Any time the carrier changes during the shipment it is as good as lost. In the UK royal fail do tracked and signed abroad with insurance, you pay for this service thinking that if anything goes wrong you are covered only to find that what they mean is that it is covered so long as they have it in the UK, as soon as they hand it to Parcel Farce to export at the airport it's over and if it is lost it is lost, nothing you can do. I am now trying to use carriers like UPS for america so that when it goes missing they are accountable as they carry it from start to finish. |
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