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#3193027 9-Feb-2024 20:18

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When I buy more than $60 from Element 14 the shipping is free, even when they have to ship it from the UK.

Quite honestly it's worth the extra you pay from RS/Element14/Mouser/Digikey/etc because you get quality, good shipping, etc etc etc as well as a far better selection of products. Combine that with the not having to waste time tracking down alternative sources it works out cheaper when you include time.

Yup. Ordered something from Digikey on Sunday, picked up Monday, delivered Thursday, with detailed tracking and updates every step of the way. Heck, I can't get something from Wellington to here in that time, and when I do the only tracking updates are "Picked up" (which doesn't mean picked up, it means label created), and "On board for delivery", with the rest missing in action.

I ordered an Ultrasonic cleaner from Christchurch Friday night last week.

Figured they would sort it Monday.

Monday I ordered some Ultrasonic PCB cleaner from Element 14 , Sydney , it had to come from the UK.

Today (Friday) my cleaning fluid is in Auckland and will be delivered Monday

I have a track and Trace number for Aramex , but it is yet to be shipped to me even though I have asked for an update twice from the supplier.

THIS is why people buy overseas, I don't care that I pay GST on it too, the "unfair competition" is still price and delivery.

When I am in the USA later this year I will be buying myself some tooling for my metal lathe (shhh no one tell the wife), because again it is much cheaper and the shipping is effectively free, and being under NZ$600 (or there abouts ) I will save on the gst at that point too. I will also see what I can get in the way of a few EZ80 CPUs so I can build myself an 80MHz CPM (1970s/80s Operating system for the young'uns ) machine for laughs

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#3193054 9-Feb-2024 22:04

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When I am in the USA later this year I will be buying myself some tooling for my metal lathe (shhh no one tell the wife), because again it is much cheaper and the shipping is effectively free, and being under NZ$600 (or there abouts ) I will save on the gst at that point too.

And you'll probably get it the next day. There was a thread on an electronics forum a week or so back where people were complaining about shipping delays because it wasn't there the day after they ordered it.

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#3193059 9-Feb-2024 22:17

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I will also see what I can get in the way of a few EZ80 CPUs so I can build myself an 80MHz CPM (1970s/80s Operating system for the young'uns ) machine for laughs

I think you mean an eZ80, not an EZ80.

Also, a real man(TM) would synthesise it on a Spartan XC7 and have the world's only 500MHz Z80 with DDR3 memory.

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#3193060 9-Feb-2024 22:28

neb:
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I will also see what I can get in the way of a few EZ80 CPUs so I can build myself an 80MHz CPM (1970s/80s Operating system for the young'uns ) machine for laughs

I think you mean an eZ80, not an EZ80. Also, a real man(TM) would synthesise it on a Spartan XC7 and have the world's only 500MHz Z80 with DDR3 memory.

Its going to be enough fun to port CPM over to it and possibly drop 1+MB onto it just for giggles.

I do understand that someone has ported TRS-DOS over to an eZ80 system.....wonder if you could dual boot the system into different OSs ?

I need to pare down my "collection" of old computers from something like 400 to maybe 100 or less as I am more interested in building steam engines ATM.

Either way I will learn lots and have some fun while doing it.....and the money earned will buy some new cool toys.

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#3194652 13-Feb-2024 12:58

So, bought a 15L Ultrasonic bath fro cleaning PCBs.

Problem is the track and trace number says it is incorrect.

Went back to the seller multiple times with "we will get back to you" type responses.

Turns out that Aramex systems are sh!t. Its been well over a week and I got shitty with Aramex about it and lo and behold it is being delivered today.

This is not the first time we have had issues with Aramex, it will be the last. Either sellers will use a different courier or I buy elsewhere.

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#3215153 6-Apr-2024 19:52

Not DHL but not worth starting another thread for Fedex:

Anyone wanna bet the next update is also "On the way"? Makes writing the tracking software easier I suppose.

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#3215156 6-Apr-2024 20:19

It could be worse, it could be APC Postal Logistics. The world's worst shipping service, and to make it even worse if your package ever gets to your country they hand it over to the world's second worst courier service, Aramex, for last mile delivery. The only shipping service so bad that for monthly subscription services you can be billed twice by the merchant and have two months shipments still in transit!

And don't get me started on Aramex, their tracking may as well go "We've got it", "It's on its way", "We've lost it".

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#3215973 8-Apr-2024 21:34

The lack of accurate, public, real time tracking in NZ is kind of frustrating. NZ post/CourierPost is probably the best, but even they could improve a lot.

I want to see "On converybelt A in warehouse X. Now in bin C in Warehouse X, now on Truck Z transiting to Warehouse Y (with realtime GPS tracking of the truck!)" etc on all packages ("courier" and international/registered post that has UPU barcodes). My understanding is that at least some of this is available in their internal systems, but not publicly.

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#3215983 8-Apr-2024 22:15

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I want to see "On converybelt A in warehouse X. Now in bin C in Warehouse X, now on Truck Z transiting to Warehouse Y (with realtime GPS tracking of the truck!)" etc on all packages ("courier" and international/registered post that has UPU barcodes).

Along with "Now listen, sweetie. I'm literally out of the door when my bloody car turns up, and I'm managing to keep a lid on things this end alright? God, I must ring in and tell them I'm coming. Right, it's me. I'm on my way in. Everything's completely under control this end, how is it with you? Just do your best, darling. I'm rushing. I'm coming into the office now. I'm coming through the door. Right I'm here, darling".

That's the level of tracking you want.

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#3215989 9-Apr-2024 07:01

neb:

That's the level of tracking you want.

It's a parcel, not a person, stalker level tracking isn't really a moral issue.

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#3216000 9-Apr-2024 08:14

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#3216019 9-Apr-2024 09:52

My wife was following up a package (I think something she sent) with one of the bigger NZ couriers (I forget which one), and was on the phone to them.

They looked up the number and said "its in xyz", she said "the website hasn't been updated since it was picked up", they replied "oh we don't show in-transit steps on the tracking page", as in they intentionally hide the tracking information that people actually want to know..

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#3216029 9-Apr-2024 10:13

Lias:

The lack of accurate, public, real time tracking in NZ is kind of frustrating. NZ post/CourierPost is probably the best, but even they could improve a lot.

I want to see "On converybelt A in warehouse X. Now in bin C in Warehouse X, now on Truck Z transiting to Warehouse Y (with realtime GPS tracking of the truck!)" etc on all packages ("courier" and international/registered post that has UPU barcodes). My understanding is that at least some of this is available in their internal systems, but not publicly.

Except that level of detail is completely useless to you - you can't do anything with it. It's available to them because that information is needed if an inquiry is raised to locate it, but what sorting machine specifically last scanned it provides no value to you. Would you be expecting the Domino's Pizza Tracker to say "the pizza chef is adding sauce. the pizza chef is adding cheese. the pizza chef is adding tomato. the pizza chef is adding ham..."?

Simply "Processed at warehouse" and the warehouse suburb or city provides enough information.

And as to realtime truck tracking? Yeah no. Even Domino's drivers have raised concern over their GPS location being provided in realtime as a safety risk. Making it so criminals could just order $0.30 worth of stuff from Aliexpress and have the physical location of a truck jam packed full of expensive parcels? Even tracking the courier is a bridge too far because then you could order a $0.30 item from Aliexpress, then trail the van stealing all the parcels left "in a safe place". You know criminals would do it.

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#3216039 9-Apr-2024 10:45

Kyanar:

Except that level of detail is completely useless to you - you can't do anything with it. It's available to them because that information is needed if an inquiry is raised to locate it, but what sorting machine specifically last scanned it provides no value to you. Would you be expecting the Domino's Pizza Tracker to say "the pizza chef is adding sauce. the pizza chef is adding cheese. the pizza chef is adding tomato. the pizza chef is adding ham..."?

Simply "Processed at warehouse" and the warehouse suburb or city provides enough information.

And as to realtime truck tracking? Yeah no. Even Domino's drivers have raised concern over their GPS location being provided in realtime as a safety risk. Making it so criminals could just order $0.30 worth of stuff from Aliexpress and have the physical location of a truck jam packed full of expensive parcels? Even tracking the courier is a bridge too far because then you could order a $0.30 item from Aliexpress, then trail the van stealing all the parcels left "in a safe place". You know criminals would do it.

They do it without GPS tracking of it anyway. Do police care about parcel theft? It would appear not.

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#3216761 11-Apr-2024 01:06

So I'm still getting emailed announcements from Fedex that my item will be delivered on schedule on Friday. Which is interesting since a very pleasant chap dropped it off this morning, and I've already got the enclosure for it glued up waiting to dry.

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