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Monday evening I shared a few details of my adventure with getting
some OLED displays from iteadstudio.com and thought some folks may
be interested to see below what you can get via email after putting
a Hong Kong Post email label into the USPS system and signing up for
notifications. Not clear whether this means I'll have the displays
in the mailbox today or tomorrow, but the end of the tunnel might be
in sight. :-)<br>
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Also, as a reminder of the wisdom of others at the meeting: Chinese
New Year is February 1st this year and folks would do well to plan
accordingly as the country effectively shuts down for a number of
days to celebrate this holiday.<br>
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To recap:<br>
Bill Farrow shared details about the display at a meeting in early
December, but they were listed as out of stock by then.<br>
I ordered a few displays soon after noticing iteadstudio listed
them in stock again, on the 5th.<br>
A few days later iteadstudio wrote to say they were sorry, they
hadn't actually shipped, but they would have them in stock 'soon'.
Unfortunately that msg didn't come from an iteadstudio.com address
and my mail cleanup filters tossed it, so no date.<br>
About the 18th I hadn't gotten a new shipping notice, so I pinged
and was told in a roundabout way that had I polled their web site I
would have seen the status change and know my displays had left
their premises. However they never updated the shipping label on
their web site. But as part of their slightly snitty reply they
included the new label.<br>
On December 20th HK Post showed that the package had gone bye bye
from China.<br>
From shortly after this date until around January 12th the
usps.com site showed an "origin post" status which I eventually
decoded to mean "sitting in customs in Flushing New York." The
displays were flushed from Flushing on the 13th and the rest is
listed below.<br>
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-Pete<br>
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<td>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:32:06 -0600 (CST)</td>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">This is a post-only message. Please do
not respond.<br>
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Peter Soper has requested that you receive a Track & Confirm
update, as shown below.<br>
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Track & Confirm e-mail update information provided by the
U.S. Postal Service.<br>
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Label Number: RT191395379HK<br>
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Service Type: Registered Mail<sup>™</sup><br>
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">Sorting Complete</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">APEX, NC 27502</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">January 17, 2014 10:18 am</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">Arrival at Unit</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">APEX, NC 27502</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">January 17, 2014 9:43 am</font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">Depart USPS Sort Facility</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">FLUSHING, NY 11351</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">January 13, 2014 </font></td>
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">Processed through USPS
Sort Facility</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">FLUSHING, NY 11351</font></td>
<td><font face="Arial" size="2">January 12, 2014 10:52 am</font></td>
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Shipment</font></td>
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Reminder: Track & Confirm by email<br>
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Date of email request: January 4, 2014<br>
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Future activity will continue to be emailed for up to 2 weeks
from the Date of Request shown above. If you need to initiate
the Track & Confirm by email process again at the end of the
2 weeks, please do so at the USPS Track & Confirm web site
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