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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2007-07-31 09:01 pm
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Cue the Handel

"Arrival of the Marshmallow King of the Youkais."

In a box plastered with tape marked 'DHL Repack YYZ-670.' (YYZ is Toronto.) [livejournal.com profile] mikeneko, your words of ill-omen almost- almost- derailed my package, but it arrived intact nonetheless.

Though naked!Goujun looked better in the scan, I think, than in the book...
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[identity profile] takumashii.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I can't help thinking it's a marvelous thing that in this modern world we can get packages shipped halfway around the world in less than a week and be annoyed that it took so long. It's enough to make me consider paying for priority shipping and giving up the dubious charm of 'sometime between three weeks and six months'...

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
amazon.jp rot its greedy little hide does not give you a choice any more. Overseas orders are priority shipping, period. And if I must pay 3000 yen up front for nothing at all, plus 300 yen shipping for every book I order, plus the book's price (which ironically can be 200 yen if it's secondhand) they had damned well better get it to me within a week.

One of the downsides of living in Canada is that I can't use anyone else's services (fujisan, jamall, et al) because they're US based and use shipping companies, not mail, to deliver parcels across the border. And if Customs happens to look at your parcel (they look at everything Purolator and Fedex sends, I've been told) Purolator and Fedex charge you 25-30 dollars for doing the paperwork. So amazon.jp it is, because they ship via a small delivery company that usually passes under customs' radar.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
I is happy that you got it now though! ^__^
ext_8660: A calico cat (mike wah!)

[identity profile] mikeneko.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh sure, blame me. Heh.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles* with that icon, it almost looks like them's a fightin' words. ^__^

Sorry couldn't resist the comment! ^__^ I love seeing that icon!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2007-08-01 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Words have power. Kotodamashii. You said 'customary late and damaged packages' and look what happened. A late and damaged package. QED.
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