The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

It appears my ISP has upgraded my connection speed by 50%.

[alfred russel]

I guess this is the map from Paradox's next game, which will somehow be based around passport strength. 

[Josquius]

has anyone ever shipped large items across the world?
I'm very tempted by putting lots in a small box to save money but it does increase the chances of something going wrong and my stuff being lost....

[Ed Anger]

I mailed my children via USPS.

[Ideologue]

They forgot to poke holes in the box for my package from the Ukraine.

[Razgovory]

I guess this is the map from Paradox's next game, which will somehow be based around passport strength. 

I already played that game.  You can get it a GOG or Steam.

[Josquius]

I've got a test next weekend. It stressed me massively previous times I took it.
I'm having trouble caring enough to study this time around. Doesn't seem real for some reason. Strange.

[mongers]

has anyone ever shipped large items across the world?
I'm very tempted by putting lots in a small box to save money but it does increase the chances of something going wrong and my stuff being lost....

Regular international airmail* is astonishingly reliable amongst First world and most other counties. You gain nothing from the private couriers with the fancy logos and branding.

Can't comment on shipping for large items.

*and for that matter surface, though these services between national 'carriers' are I think limited by treaty regarding the weight of items carried?


edit:
damn this place is comatose, this is the first post in nearly 3 hours on the forum.

[jimmy olsen]

http://i.imgur.com/D9ZbFNF.jpg

[Grey Fox]

@Tyr


I've never shipped anything personal but all my business shipping of giant computers have went super. It might surprise use but the mail companies handle big shipment all the time

[alfred russel]

edit:
damn this place is comatose, this is the first post in nearly 3 hours on the forum.

Languish is dying & it is very early on a Sunday morning, north america time.

[Ed Anger]

They forgot to poke holes in the box for my package from the Ukraine.

The disposal costs of 16 year old dead Polynesian girls is HIGH. TOO DAMN HIGH

[Josquius]

has anyone ever shipped large items across the world?
I'm very tempted by putting lots in a small box to save money but it does increase the chances of something going wrong and my stuff being lost....

Regular international airmail* is astonishingly reliable amongst First world and most other counties. You gain nothing from the private couriers with the fancy logos and branding.

Can't comment on shipping for large items.

*and for that matter surface, though these services between national 'carriers' are I think limited by treaty regarding the weight of items carried?


edit:
damn this place is comatose, this is the first post in nearly 3 hours on the forum.

Surface is what I'll be using. What worries me is
1: Surface travel from Japan to the UK involves Russia/Central Asia/Other such crappy places.
2: Illegal immigrants dancing and pissing on top of my box.


I don't think I will use the big box. It seems too unstable. I'm getting a fair bit in a smaller one though.

[Admiral Yi]

Is there a special word for the smoodge that builds up on your mouse coasters?  Or for the smoodge that builds up on a mouse ball?

[Ideologue]

Cum.