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    Shipping of TIVO from the USA via Surface Mail :(

    Yes ... I'm kicking myself now .... I purchased a S1 Tivo via eBay, and had it shipped via surface mail

    What's the longest anyone has had to wait for such a shipment ? I'm up to the end of week #11 !!!

    It's definitely been shipped, as the seller has provided a customers docket, and he is currently trying to find out an ETA, but as it wasn't registered, they cannot track it automatically

    Anyone heard of any cargo ships sinking lately ?

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    I heard one that was delivering cargo from ebay went missing in the area of the Bermuda triangle...

    Not sure if it's true though.

    Man, that's gotta suck. Normal airmail takes only about a week!

    Let's hope it turns up real soon eh..

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    11 weeks is nothing new. The good news is that usually it is 8-12 weeks so should not be far away. General rule of thumb is that whatever the USPS website quotes for shipping times you usually double and sometime triple during "peak" times like November/December for surface mail items.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozrex
    Yes ... I'm kicking myself now .... I purchased a S1 Tivo via eBay, and had it shipped via surface mail

    What's the longest anyone has had to wait for such a shipment ? I'm up to the end of week #11 !!!
    As Darren has said 8-12 weeks is fairly normal for most of the year, I've mostly had things at the 12 week end of that range.

    Surface travels as off peak for it's entire journey, it can take over a week to cross the US to the West coast before being shipped. The same this end if you live out West, as most surface mail from the pacific is cleared at Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney.

    Quote Originally Posted by ozrex
    Anyone heard of any cargo ships sinking lately ?
    Hopefully it wasn't in one of these containers



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