Give ‘em a break Paul, they probably have two thirds of the staff and three times the workload at the moment!
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actually its worse than that....have a friend whos a postie so i know what state they are in....especially my local sorting office which had to close for a deep clean cos a muppet of a manager wouldnt go home even though he felt unwell, then tested positive for it!!.......and its not the posties fault, its managements fault
but considering DHL delivered a 10kg box within 20 hours of ordering only 3 days ago..............
im just a little stuck.....got a stack of kits i want to build but no paintPer Ardua
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Dave,
I am going to take a chance that the "Meccano set" you refer to is what we called an Erector Set over here. No self respecting kid grew up without one. And like you say all you got was a bunch of pieces of metal with lots of holes in them and a bag of nuts and bolts.
Just looked it up, can still get it but now you get just enough pieces and extra parts to build a specific toy, what kind of fun is that
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Interesting Paul, I’ve never had a good experience with anything shipped using DHL....I think we’re on the end of the route and they run out of driver hours before they get to us....Comment
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Bob,
yes, I think Erector Set was the US name mine was a hand-me-down from my father - he was given it in about 1930 from his father ( my grandfather )- it was a super deluxe version, in a wooden box, with clockwork motors, pulleys, gears
the nearest I can find of a similar box is this..............
Where it went - I have no idea - but I would say that my father & myself certainly had maximum use & pleasure out of it!
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WOW............. And that looks like a removable tray so there is probably more fun underneathComment
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