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UPDATE: 20th April: Two of the parcels reached the recipient. The third, in the foreground of the image below, did not. It is supposed to have left Denmark on the 8th April. Posted on the 1st. Still in transit according to both PostDanmark and Parcelforce UK. PostDanmark is too greedy to have telephone operators manning their customer services. Because they have so many delivery problems. They have an AI tracking system but NOTHING ELSE. Zilch, bugger all! We've lost your parcel? Oh dear, never mind. We have taken your money and there's nothing you can do about it! 600 Danish Kroner = £70. Now fuck off! Don't bother us! We are too big and too rich to be subject to international law.
Parcelforce UK has an AIdiot, voice recognition system, for inputting tracking numbers. But they saved just enough money, on the software, to pay their management's astronomical salaries. So that its drooling idiocy of AIdiot doesn't REMOTELY recognize spoken letters. Not even close! You aren't allowed to say "A alpha" etc. They saved the billions extra that would have cost. You aren't allowed to type in the letters and numbers. That would be far too easy. Not when they were saving money. To confirm they don't give a shit about customer service.
Unlike PostDanmark, Parcelforce is NOT so greedy that it does NOT have telephone operators. I'd guess about three of them for their whole system throughout the UK. But, just like Post Danmark, Parcelforce has so many delivery problems that there is currently A 30 MINUTE TELEPHONE WAITING TIME! Which is basically saying FU, FOff and don't ring us! Because we quite honestly don't give a flying shit about customer service. Or we'd improve our service and employ more staff.
As I am ringing from Denmark I have no desire to wait on the line for 30 MINUTES! Only to be told what their drooling AIdiot system has already told me. If this were any other online service both postal services would both be subject to laws for international online sales.
An online search for Parcelforce AIdiot's inability to understand clearly spoken letters, by an English speaking person, produced instant confirmation that they have countless complaints about their drooling idiot of an AIdiot system. Being totally unable to manage its basic and only job: i.e. Fielding tracking numbers and LETTERS! You really couldn't make it up! Which is just another way of saying their tracking system is business fraud.
Having taken the whole thing apart I was able to tape the main shafts and cradle together. Then place it in a long, narrow box with padding. I was hoping to avoid the heavy shafts shooting out of the box and causing damage. Taping the parts together increases the cross sectional area. I also taped the box thoroughly. To avoid penetration. This parcel came to 14kg. So just under the 15kg postage step.
The rest of MkIV just fits into an old banana box. However it came to just over 21kg once I had added lightweight packing materials.
The weight limit is 20kg for handing packages into parcel centres in Denmark. So I will have to lighten the second parcel and make up a small third.
16.30 I have just delivered the three parcels to the parcel office in the village. 2 x15kg and one of 10kg.
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