Two Guitar stands - an amazon story.

[Silly Moustache]

I like the basic K&M folding guitar stands. I have many but decided I'd like a couple more - but only the original design , not the newer ones, which are more expensive. Earlier this week
I ordered two to get free shipping.

This was the first one :
Wednesday, 17 February - 12:16 PM
Package arrived at an Amazon facility - Rochester, Medway GB

1:32 AM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Rochester, Kent GB

6:31 AM -Package arrived at the final delivery station
Swindon, GB

10:29 AM - out for delivery Swindon, GB

2:19 PM - Delivered - behind the wheelie bin

Ok ! So where is the second one?

I didn't arrive today so I checked on the Amazon site, and this is what i saw:

Ordered Tuesday 16th Feb.

Thursday, 18 February
7:18 PM Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia DE

Friday, 19 February
12:53 AM
Completed customs clearance process
KÖLN, NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN DE
6:00 AM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Köln, Loading... DE
7:38 AM
Initiated customs clearance process
Derby, GB
7:48 AM
Completed customs clearance process
Derby, GB
1:17 PM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Castle Donington, GB
2:58 PM Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Bardon Hill, LOADING... GB

Delivery, possibly Monday.

Why I ask myself does one have to come from the Uk and another shipped in from Germany?
Now, of curse there is all this Customs business.

That's progress I guess.

[Bob Womack]

They had one in stock and had the other dropped shipped from K&M (Koenig & Meyer) in Germany.

That's okay. I've got an order in progress from Pen & Sword books in the UK for a book by a fighter pilot who became part of the Battle of Britain flight and whom I later met and spent some time with. First order: August, 2020. Didn't show up. Resent November, 2020. Hasn't shown.

I've been waiting on a British diecast model of a German tank that was sent from Poland (Poczta Polska) on February 4. I tracked it t the point where it left Europe for the U.S. February 10th from the Warsaw international mail depot. Its somewhere in customs.

Bob

[Ozzy the dog]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

2:19 PM - Delivered - behind the wheelie bin

At least your delivery people have a bit more common sense than this end of the country. My son had a delivery hidden in the wheelie bin............... On bin day. The bin was empty.

It always amazes me how far a parcel can actually travel on its' trip. I posted something to the East Coast of the US. Tracking said it had arrived at Los Angeles distribution depot ready for final leg.

8,000 miles for a 3,000 mile trip. At least I got my money's worth.

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

They had one in stock and had the other dropped shipped from K&M (Koenig & Meyer) in Germany.

That's okay. I've got an order in progress from Pen & Sword books in the UK for a book by a fighter pilot who became part of the Battle of Britain flight and whom I later met and spent some time with. First order: August, 2020. Didn't show up. Resent November, 2020. Hasn't shown.

I've been waiting on a British diecast model of a German tank that was sent from Poland (Poczta Polska) on February 4. I tracked it t the point where it left Europe for the U.S. February 10th from the Warsaw international mail depot. Its somewhere in customs.

Bob

Yeah Bob, the issue is that it now has to go through Customs and Excise now the UK is out of the Customs Union.

Everything - buying and selling into the EU is now going to be slower and more expensive.

If/when either me or my family wish to sell my guitars the buyers will need to pay 20% tax plus , probably 5% for the paperwork, so my "wooden investments" have just dropped in value by 25%.

[rmp]

I ordered a few set of Savarez strings last year one came from a music store some where in New York,

the other came some time later, point of origin was Berlin (yes, the one in Germany)..

Amazon, ya never know.. so back to Juststrings.com I go...