Alaska, closest DHL office is 900 or so miles away in Anchorage. I've ordered from HK before with DHL, stuff usually goes from HK to Anchorage, to Kentucky, back to Anchorage, where it gets put into US mail and arrives via US Mail (still pretty fast), last shipment I did took about 1 - 1.5 weeks from HK via DHL to my door.
Best shipper that I've been happy with has been UPS Expedited actually... I've gotten stuff in under a week from HK.
I had a package take a month and a half via EMS though.
Oh wow I'd imagine Alaska is a great place to mind since cooling is taken care of
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. What's energy costs like up there? I would assume the delay in your Avalon's arrival is related to that crazy shipping situation. I really really hope we get tracking numbers in batch 2!
No problem with cooling (not snowing today but it was the other day). Energy costs (where I am) are between 5 and 11 cents a KW.
I don't believe it is because of the crazy shipping solutions; I called DHL again today and nothing has shipped. I gave them the sender account ID, sender name, location, destination zip code; A lady Ana looked and couldn't find anything. There are other packages, but not mine.
Generally I am unlucky; and I just *KNEW* if there was any problems it would happen to me. So I was super careful about everything, reading every message avalon sent out and following them absolutely. Shipping addresses, I updated the new system too right after they lost all of the old store information again with my address just in case, as well as submitting a ticket. Unfortunately nothing appears to have stopped what I knew would happen. I mined all of the BTC, but at the price I bought it was a lot of BTC.
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