[hpsdr] Metis Delivery Stats

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An interesting quandary.

If you choose a FOFS shipment procedure,
do you use the HamSDR TAPR page, or the
TAPR.org page to choose sequence?  After
all, the group support for Metis started
at HamSDR.

If you have a First Ordered First Shipped
policy, will that mean that your web pages
are probed to find the page before it is
announced?  Will your web site crash due
to everyone trying to order at once?

If you give no order preference, then we
can relax and casually order.  This is
not eBay, we are doing a group purchase
using TAPR's volunteers who are helping
to advance technology.


I remember when one of the HPDSR boards
was shipped first to the most distant
locations in an attempt to equalize the
arrival to everyone.  That was a mess.


If I was a volunteer in the shipping group
and looking at making, say 400 shipments,
I would try to ship the fastest ones to
process first, followed by the ones that
required the extra handling and paperwork
for customs forms.


On 02/25/2011 03:26 PM, Andrea Montefusco wrote:
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> On 02/24/2011 02:09 PM, Chris Smith wrote:
>> If past deliveries are anything to go by, local, i.e.
>> continental USA, are first to be sent, then overseas. I
>> haven't been able to determine any pattern in what happens
>> after the majority of USA orders have been despatched.
> Yes, a strange delivery policy: FIFO would be preferable,
> especially because I placed the order on Dec 2 :-).
> BTW, in the meantime the credit card number that I inserted into
> the order became useless (because it arrived at the end of life)
> and this created more hassle if ever.
>
>> TAPR do a great job and we just have to be patient.
> I fully agree. My comment above is not a complain.
>
> *am*
>

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