Well...It's Friday...

SA Condor said:
Sadly 30 days is normal here too. The cheapest method normally takes 1-3 months here. I've just been spoiled because some stuff recently has arrived in just over 2 weeks! So it's got my hopes up and makes me anxious when it takes longer :D

I don't know of any freight forwarders that live in my city. Everything that enters Bolivia comes through the 2 largest cities and gets distributed from there. Regular USPS is the only way I know of to not get stuck forever in Customs. All other shipping methods gets stuck there and it's awful. They are crooks! The only package I lost that I'm aware of, got stuck in the bureaucratic mess that they call customs here. All it was was a new horn for my truck! Bunch of theives!
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most likely the cheapest is by ship. then they make a huge container. if you been lucky to by something at the time the container is almost full and it just to drop couple things and close the lead - you might receive it in 2 weeks. if it almost empty ...

and considering manual sorting as well ...
but it not so sad as a stealing from parcels

I hope you will get your thing as soon as possible
 
Mcracker said:
help for a newbie....are both of those big knives (pictured together) camp knives? just curious...not real familiar with the bigger knives...
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Yeah, Camp Knives. One is Evergreen shadetree .. not really sure what you call that other raw bacon looking burlap. :p
 
The one Camp knife is coffee burlap, and the other is a strange version of drunken burlap.
 
bonafide said:
Yeah, Camp Knives. One is Evergreen shadetree .. not really sure what you call that other raw bacon looking burlap. :p
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Is that Evergreen or Coffeebag? I am sure that you saw them up close, but the photo looks like Coffeebag burlap to me.

Phil
 
Even worse!! I shipped some crates when I first came. It took 8 months to receive. I did purchase and slip some items into another persons container once. It took 3 years between shipping (a couple months) and customs here! It's ridiculous and then they charged several thousand $$ to get it out. They called it a 'storage' fee even though they were the ones who wouldn't release the container!

USPS is the way to go for me!

Taja said:
most likely the cheapest is by ship. then they make a huge container. if you been lucky to by something at the time the container is almost full and it just to drop couple things and close the lead - you might receive it in 2 weeks. if it almost empty ...

and considering manual sorting as well ...
but it not so sad as a stealing from parcels

I hope you will get your thing as soon as possible
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SA Condor said:
Even worse!! I shipped some crates when I first came. It took 8 months to receive. I did purchase and slip some items into another persons container once. It took 3 years between shipping (a couple months) and customs here! It's ridiculous and then they charged several thousand $$ to get it out. They called it a 'storage' fee even though they were the ones who wouldn't release the container!

USPS is the way to go for me!
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Wow, that sucks. I was just referencing our mail system, no experience with shipping like that. My fiance called to let me know that something I ordered in July just showed up in our mailbox. In Philippines they hand deliver bills because of how slow and inept the mail system is.
 
RRaconteur said:
Sooooo..... Which one of you broke BladeForums trying to out-shark everyone else? :D


Michael
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I was glad we got the thread up and most of it all sorted before that happened. Timing was on our side today, at least a little bit.
 
What an unbelievable start to a Fiddleback Friday.......all of the great Kephart shots and Brian's photo essay on the Fiddleback process......can hardly wait to see today's Fotki pictures.......bring em on Ken !
 
prom52 said:
What an unbelievable start to a Fiddleback Friday.......all of the great Kephart shots and Brian's photo essay on the Fiddleback process......can hardly wait to see today's Fotki pictures.......bring em on Ken !
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You just summed up everything I was thinking coming into here! Nicely done..
 
prom52 said:
What an unbelievable start to a Fiddleback Friday.......all of the great Kephart shots and Brian's photo essay on the Fiddleback process......can hardly wait to see today's Fotki pictures.......bring em on Ken !
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10-4 good buddy!
 
Well, here's to hoping that today will be my Fiddleback Friday! Last week I was hoping my Fiddleback and WAS knives would arrive, alas no knives! Today will be 38 days and counting! Come on now, I want my Fiddleback goodness. How else am I going to be able to share pics with you all :)
 
3:00 today! Big batch of 26 knives for y'all. Next week's Fiddle-Black Friday is a stunner too! I'm hoping to have photos up before lunch today.
 
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