Buying stuff from ebay is not just fun, cheap, dangerous and entertaining. It is downright instructional, in an internationalizing way. I never knew that what we did at X would spread so far. Not a clue about how many people needed to buy porn and pottery from around the world.

I won, if that’s what happened, two items last week. Both are costing more for shipping than my winning bid for the items. Anyhow, one is coming from Albany New York via USPS special tracking confirmation wowy zowy handling. The other is coming from Toronto Canada by way of canadian standard post. The US capitalist post office was to be able to deliver in a few days (3-5). The socialist Canadian post office said it could take 12 days to transit Canada then America to me here in little ole California.

Sure enough, the US Post office has lost the package. Actually they haven’t lost it, it has been mis-delivered. And it’s because some of their work is outsourced, such as well, we will talk about that in another post. During the US mis-delivered mail, the Canadians have shipped the package across Canada and delivered it to the US post office customs, in half the transit time. Package two now awaits loving capitalism’s loyal mounties to carry it to me, sometime, any day now.

Still waiting on outsourced capitalism to come through, to deliver my goods, so to speak.