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richard 2	06/10/2018 05:30:39
127 forum posts	Ordered from M-Machine - just three small pieces of metal - despatched that same afternoon to be delivered next day, Same with Tracy Tools - have dealt with with them for many years and the order always arrives next day. Richard 2.
Hopper	06/10/2018 05:51:03
7881 forum posts 397 photos	Everything I order takes at least three weeks to get here to rural Oz, whether it's coming from Sydney, the UK or US. Consider yourself lucky. Not that long ago, such ordering required reading the supplier's details in ME magazine back pages, writing them a query letter, waiting to get a reply or maybe even a catalogue in the mail, writing another letter placing your order, taking letter to post office and lining up to buy a postal money order to put in with the order, then waiting for the supplier to post the desired item back to you, hopefully without having to wait for it to be "back ordered". Ebay has spoiled us all.
I.M. OUTAHERE	06/10/2018 06:36:15
1468 forum posts 3 photos	Most retailers or sellers will have in their T & C ‘s a time frame for dispatch and some give a reasonable expectation for postage time . The guy I buy some of the metal I need from told me up front on my first order that it can take a week before he posts my item and he also waits for the funds to clear before he will even look at an order this is because he does it on the side as a way of making a quid from the offcuts his business creates .

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