"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/24/2019 at 15:53 • Filed to: Valve removal tool, Tonga
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/24/2019 at 15:53 • Filed to: Valve removal tool, Tonga | 2
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This is what you get in the way of a spare wheel on my car. There’s no spare. Instead you get a compressor (yellow box), a spray (behind the compressor) and a valve removal tool, which you’ll need to spray the gunk in.
Except there wasn’t. You see that conspicuously empty slot? That’s where it would have been had some previous owner not removed it.
What to do? Why buy a new one of course. €5 or so from an actual shop, or €1.60 on ebay. Like so. Yes, it fits perfectly.
But here’s the thing. The tool was from a supplier in China, as you would expect. So for €1.60 somebody made it, put it into a ziplock bag, printed out a label, put it into another bag and posted it halfway across the world. But not posted the way you expect.
It arrived from..
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Tonga.
Where?
In the event of not being delivered it should be returned to Tonga Post Ltd at the GPO in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
No, I haven’t a clue why it would make sense to ship a package from China
to an island group in the middle of nowhere and then send it on to somewhere just about on the other side of the world.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Cé hé sin
06/24/2019 at 16:24 |
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its taxes.... somehow...
worked a factory jobbie before shipping out potato salads... we’d make the salads and package them.. then send them off to germany for labeling and when they send them back to be sold in the country of origin they are cheaper than they were on the way out
MUSASHI66
> Cé hé sin
06/24/2019 at 17:23 |
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Back in the day, western world made a deal with developing countries for ridiculously cheap postage. China was part of that deal. That deal expired for China recently. So, now all the cheap shit will flow from other countries, like Tonga.
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Cé hé sin
> MUSASHI66
06/24/2019 at 17:33 |
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That’s not going to affect goods shipped from China to anywhere except the US though is it?
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MUSASHI66
> Cé hé sin
06/24/2019 at 23:08 |
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Not 100% sure - I think C anada might be included but I can’t remember the details.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
06/25/2019 at 04:26 |
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i’ve had funny things like that in the post too