by Gaznazdiak » 28 Jan 2019, 2:44 pm
Australia post looks worse every time I use an overseas carrier.
I have a German dive watch, nice unit, phosphor bronze case water resistant to 30atm, Swiss Soprod 10A 25 jewel automatic mechanical movement, accurate to 3 seconds in 24hrs.
However, the first batch of this movement has shown issues with the rotor weight, and I just has to have one when they were released and mine has the issue of not winding itself properly.
So it's off on a trip back to the manufacturer for service because they pay for freight, parts, the lot and have the equipment to replace the nitrogen atmosphere inside before it's closed.
To the point of this ramble, the manufacturer specified Fedex so the watch had to go to a local freight depot who were TNTagents, they took it 200km to Sydney and gave it to Fedex who then had to get it through customs and to Stadtbergen in Bavaria.
I gave it to the local guy on Thursday afternoon, a tracking email this morning tells me it's being delivered today.
I have had a small ebay purchase take 8 days to get 200km from Sydney and another take 4 days from Palmerston NT.
Are they all on drugs, or if not maybe they bloody should be.
fideles usque ad mortem