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tom osselton:
Put them through the dishwasher

AdeV:
Some time ago I bought a several gallons of 99.9 IPA (not beer... more fool me!), anything I'm worried about gets a wash in that. Strangely, that didn't go down as well as I expected with the wife....  :scratch: :lol:

philf:
ArcEuro drills arrived this morning. All suitably cleaned and put away. The catalogue they sent has had the covers wiped and is now in quarantine for a day or two.

Whilst I was putting the drills into suitable labelled containers I discovered I have at least fifty 2.2 mm drills. Why I don't know.

Also some carbide PCB drills from China arrived. How can they manufacture, package and ship something for less than what it costs to post a card to relatives in Canada?

Again all suitably cleaned.

AdeV:

--- Quote from: philf on March 30, 2020, 09:10:05 AM ---How can they manufacture, package and ship something for less than what it costs to post a card to relatives in Canada?

--- End quote ---

Actually, that's pretty easy to answer:

1) Wages are terrible over there, land/factory rental is cheap, so is electricity etc. So the manufacturing cost is low.
2) There's some kind of international agreement between postal services; I can't remember quite how it all works, but effectively every package Royal Mail deliver from China, is done by them (RM) for free. So the cheap postage is the result of (essentially) China abusing this international agreement.

This, I think, is why there's such a huge difference in postage costs between the internal Chinese services (EMS or ChinaPost) and the couriers such as TNT, UPS etc. for the same item. The downside is you have to wait longer, and it hurts Royal Mail.

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