[Novalug] OT: shipping Lenovo

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Sun Nov 25 12:31:19 EST 2007


It's due at my house on Tuesday.  Seems it was just held up a day as someone
else mentioned.  Got my 4Gb of RAM ready to plop in it and roll.

Ken

On 11/25/07, Kevin Dwyer <kevin@pheared.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:29:34AM -0500, gregory pryzby wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:27:57AM -0500, Ken Kauffman wrote:
> > > So what would you say this means:
> > > THE SHIPMENT IS BEING HELD BY BROKERAGE FOR REASONS BEYOND UPS'
> CONTROL
> > >
> > > I'm more interested in getting a legitimate response from someone than
> > > speculation.  Specifically the "by brokerage" piece I do not
> understand, the
> > > rest makes sense. :)
> > >
> > > I'm pleased that it did not take 3-4 weeks to ship (as expected), but
> concerned
> > > about the shipment.  I'm assuming this is a customs related delay
> given that
> > > the shipping origin is:  SHENZHEN, CN and is currently in GUANGZHOU,
> CN
> >
> > GUESS:
> >
> > Stuck in customs
>
> That's probably an educated guess, which is at least better than
> speculation.  I've had shipments from overseas mysteriously get stuck
> for up to a day while customs figures out how much it's worth, whether
> I'm paying the right taxes, etc.
>
> -kpd
>
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