In home country, you need small persons wrapped for delivery, is has shop, you go in, you pay, you pick up wrapped dwarve in about half hour? No such wrapping place in America? Why is not is?
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your so corney i seen one of your answers and you actually answered it sensibly so why ask these moronic questions
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I don't have a recipe for you, but I do have some advice.  I am in the Navy, and have many a care package sent out to me.  Anyone who has ever been overseas will tell you, the postal service, our's and any other country's, doesn't really care about packages.  Think of it about the same as putting your luggage onto a plane.\n\nMy mother, the amazing woman that she is, found a way to protect those baked goodies you want to send.  Otherwise, the individual recieving them, will be given a box of crumbs.\n\nOnce you have baked the cookies, allowed them to cool and are ready to package them, here is what you need to do.\n\nFirst, you need the following items:\n\nBox of wax paper\nSeveral Pringles cans\n\nSecond, individually wrap each cookie in wax paper, as if you were packing your good dishes for a move.\n\nThird, once all of the cookies are wrapped, place each one into the pringles can, like they were a pringle.  Once you have filled the can, tape it up and put it into the box.  Gurauntee you that when the box reaches its destination, the person will be pleasantly suprised with only a few broken cookies and not a bag full of crumbs.
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It's all about economies of scale.\n\nEach local area will have a van which both delivers and collects in that area on the same run.\n\nThe van returns to a depot which serves a larger area, many similar small vans serve the other local local areas which make up this larger area.\n\neach one of these small vans hadles in the region of 100+ items a day.a depot may have in the region of 20 to 50 odd vans\n\nAfter collection the items are sorted as to which of the other depots they need to goto to be delivered, then , usually at night, large trucks make 'trunk runs' between depots, carrying thousands of items.\n\non arrival at another depot the items are sorted as to which van they need to goto to be delivered or somtimes they are 'through trunked' with more items going to another depot. Depots which handel these 'through trunked' items tend to be very large centally located depots called 'Hubs' \n\nMost of the cost involved is the small van collecting and delivering the packet locally (one man spends 10 mins collection and 10 mins deliverings an item, including driving time , that represents the most man/minuites per item anywhere in the chain.\n\nThe bulk of the work tends to be deliver of supples into shops and busineses, which means about 80% of the work is regular runs so the driver gets to know where the deliveries are and the best time to try and make them (traffic restriction deliverying into town centre pedestrian zones etc) and that most collections are of multiple items for separate delivery.\n\nThese delivery services tend to be made up of local indpendant delivery companies, which operate together as a group, with a common group identity,  with most of the large delivery companies the smaller companies are wholly own subsidiaries.\n\nThe term for the freight traveling between depots is 'groupage'\nto improve efficiencey and flexibility the inter depot trunking is often done by sub contract hauliers, somtimes with their own trailers etc.\n\nThe post office is usually geared up to handle letters and small packets, their sysytems do not handle larger items very efficiently, hence the fact that there are many commercial parcel carrage companies providing more efficient services.\n\ninterestingly attempts to break the post office monopoly on carrying letters are not progressing a quickly as many had predicted, because the groupage industry is not geared up to carry small low value items, and can't compete with the post office on price.except where large companies sent a very large number of letters out at the same time from the same place(mobile phone bills etc) and interestingly the final delivery is often done by the local post man.
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Next time use the Brown service.  \n\nI suspect as this stage all you can do is stew about it.  I am curious though about the delay to Wednesday.  I suspect if you push the right buttons, you could find a way to pick it up or have it delivered on Tuesday.
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Your item is coming from Venezia, Italy probably by their version of Air Mail. Since the seller is only charging $6 to ship the item, I doubt he or she is using anything quick. International shipments can take up to 45 days to arrive. \n\nAlso, $7 bucks for Cavalli? If it’s real, you got a sweet deal, but I’m betting it isn’t.
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Santa delivered them early because he thought they were special.\n\nBUT YOU STILL HAVE TO WAIT!!!\n\nheheh :)
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Just ask for delivery confirmation. It costs 60 cents (I think). They don't have to sign for it, but you do get a shipping number that you can follow online.
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This really depends on 4 things.  \n1) When you make your order\n2) The work schedule of business you made the order from \n3) The method you chose to deliver it.\n4) The delivery companies delivery schedule\n\nYou make a order after 5 PM on a Friday from Widget Incorporated.  Well it's too late for them to package a box and get it shipped out Friday.  So they tell you it will ship in 1 business day.  Well Widget Incorporated closes on Saturday and Sunday; so they aren't in business.  Well you want it soon as possible so you think FedEx Next day should do.  If you are lucky it gets packaged Friday or early Monday morning and sent out on FedEx Next day so you will receive it Tuesday.  \n\nSo if Widget Incorporated stayed open for business on Saturday then your package would go out Saturday right?  Well FedEx will charge you extra for a Saturday delivery.  But you will not get it till Monday cause FedEx won't deliver Sunday.  Then you have to know  that UPS ships Saturday you still won't get it till Monday for the same reason.  The USPS doesn't deliver on Sunday either.\n\nBusiness days are the days that a is open for business.  When deliveries are involved you have to keep in mind who is making the delivery and when they make deliveries.
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A franchise of NYC candy stores multiplied overnight when they started to offer Tasti-D-Lite ice cream.  In 2000, there was only one Sweet Town and one Sweet & Sour Corp in mid-town.  Today there are over 16 locations--just in Manhattan--not to mention the 30 Tasti-D-Lite stores, which do not offer candy items.\n\nHalf of the candy stores are Israeli owned and the other half Indian owned.  Most have a few tables inside, all stores know their customers by name and they offer free treats for every 10 purchases.\n\nThe majority of patrons go for the Tasti-D-Lite, which was featured on "Seinfeld" and "Sex In The City".  But once inside, the customers can't resist the huge assortment of chocolates, candy and nuts.  The stores also sell balloons, Beanie babies and other gift giving accessories.\n\nI can't help you with the technical business aspects; however, I've never seen stores flourish like this.  They are always busy from 10:00 AM until 11:00 PM.  I'm sure you could get more info from contacting them directly. \n\nBelow is the Tasti-D-Lite web address.  Click on locations to obtain the contact information for the various candy stores I've mentioned.  My Best To You!
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A lot of stores like Staples and Circuit City did.  I went to Walmart 5 years ago for a DVD player, and this little old woman tried to push by me, and one guy reached between my legs to pick one up!  Incredible!  This is not the Christmas spirit.
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OK, first, calculate the amount of wrapping paper used on a single present.  Of course, some extra paper is used in the various folds and such, but I get the feeling that all this question is interested in is the amount of paper needed to cover the surface of the box.  The surface area is equal to the combined area of the sides.  So you have two sides which are 8.5"x2" or 17 in^2.  You have two sides which are 12"x2" or 24 in^2.  And you have the top and bottom, which are each 8.5"x12" or 102 in^2.  So the total surface area is 2(17) + 2(24) + 2(102) = 34 + 48 + 204 = 286 square inches per present.\n\nNext, calculate the amount of wrapping paper used per person.  Since the average person wraps 2.3 gifts, they would need enough wrapping paper for 2.3 boxes.  That's 2.3 * 286 or 657.8 square inches per person.\n\nNext, calculate the amount of paper used by the whole town,  That's 657.8 square inches per person * 26000 people = 17102800 square inches.\n\nFinally, I'd get this into a more manageable form if I were you.  I think a standard roll of wrapping paper is a yard across, so I'll put the result into square yards.  There are 36 inches in a yard, so there are 36^2 or 1296 square inches in a square yard.  So you divide the number of square inches by 1296 to get 13,196.6 square yards.\n\n(I realize that from the wording of the problem, you're probably not American, but if you need it converted into metric, I'm afraid you're on your own.)
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liz is right. I have a family member who works for the Post Office and they will get their butts fried for accepting any package that doesn't meet the government guidelines for packaging now. It is supposed to be for safety and homeland security. They offer the things to buy to make it convenient for you so that you don't have to go home and return with the package. \n\nk.m.
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I am for neither, I am 45 yrs of age, it seems to me that this Country is in some serious Crap. We/USA are always more concerned with other Countries and their well being. The USA is not taking care of their own people first, as they should be. We have many, many people in our own country that is homeless, going hungry, etc. Yes there are a few programs out there that are trying to help, but come on, all that food and medical that other Countries are getting, why not give it to our country first where it is so desperately needed. Medical in the USA is crazy, I have to work 2 jobs at 32 hours a week for each, yes i am correct here on the hours, i get very little sleep and am getting burned out. just so i can have medical, one medical plan does not cover what i would like it to, so i have to have another medical plan to try and make up for the first one. Now how crazy is that? You asked me whom I am standing up for? believe in? well no one has earned my belief yet. I hope the future changes that.
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I suspect you are complaining of merchant sites that will not deal with Canadians. This is not a bias but a business decision. I used to live in Alaska and had the same problem as many merchants did not want to deal with Alaska. With a little searching, I usually could find someone who would ship to Alaska but of course the shipping costs were higher. If the merchant provides flat rate shipping, shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada can cause them to loose money and they do not feel that offering an alternative is worth their time and effort.
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sometimes, you have to READ everything and don't buy movies games cds from Great Britain and whatnot, I was ripped off a couple of times because they were burnt copies and would only play in upgraded machines but they tried to say they were original, but once you receive it you can tell teh difference. If you try to send it back to another country you only have so long and expressing it will cost you more than it's worth. Try to order from Americans and check their feedback if they had a lot of complaints try to get what you want elsewhere cause chances are you will have a bad experience too. you also have to watch how high your bids go plus you s & h because if you don't you end up paying more than getting it brand new in the store anyway. Always pay attention to shipping many times that is where you really pay. Do not get me wrong there are some good sellers and great deals on there you just have to be cautious. Some sellers are quick accurate and honest. Others are there to screw you around.
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I think it's the prices rather than what they sell, we have a normal size Tesco and a massive Asda near where I live, but Tesco seems to come out on top. They're always packed.\n\nThe only problem is they're taking business away from smaller shops, who's going to pay £1.99p for a packet of pain killers when Tesco sell them for about 19p.
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Just a heads up: the postal service says that packages need to go out by Monday to get there by Christmas.  My son is over there and I am busy putting together packages for him and his platoon.  I am sending eye drops, chapstick, socks, cd's, lotion, salty snacks, gum, hand- held games, a harmonica, a yo-yo and fabric softener sheets to help keep his stuff smelling better.  (someone has also suggested fabreeze.)