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Title: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Whaleyland on November 25, 2020, 10:52:08 PM
I may love the postman, but I don't like international shipping charges right now. For €28.95, I'll pass...

Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: corinthiens13 on November 25, 2020, 11:23:31 PM
I may love the postman, but I don't like international shipping charges right now. For €28.95, I'll pass...

I had to pay 18.95 Euros for the advent package, some tiles and meepls packs, to ship in Switzerland (luckily I live in one of Germany's neighboring countries).

Where do you live to have such expensive shipping costs for a single expansion?

Edit: Shipping costs for the Peasant revolts only would be 4.95 Euros for me.
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Whaleyland on November 26, 2020, 02:40:48 AM
About as far away from Europe as you can get: New Zealand. I believe somewhere in Algeria is where I’d pop out if I dug through the centre of the Earth from here. Still, shipping for three expansions and a map last month was barely more!
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Meepledrone on November 26, 2020, 03:39:14 AM
I checked, and looked what I found... In Spain we always talk about it but I never saw it on a map...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tradies/6991656198/in/photostream/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tradies/6991656198/in/photostream/)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/7243/6991656198_1cb8cce323_n.jpg)

Hello neighbor in the antipodes! When are you stopping by?  ;D
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Whaleyland on November 26, 2020, 04:12:42 AM
Interesting map, but it seems a bit off. I checked once when I lived in Christchurch (I'm in Auckland now) and it was basically perfectly aligned to Sardinia. I assume I am further south now, hence Algeria. May have to check my math.

I haven't been to Spain since 2009 and can't imagine I'll be back for a while yet. My more immediate European destination would be France, since I wrote an entire doctoral thesis on the country and haven't spent any considerable amount of time there.
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Meepledrone on November 26, 2020, 05:19:24 AM
I only maps similar to the previous one... This is from wikipedia:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_antipodes.png (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_antipodes.png)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/New_Zealand_antipodes.png)
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Mrosado on November 26, 2020, 01:59:55 PM
i live in Mexico and shipping cost was 4.95 for 7 miniexpansions, for a complete expansion shipping cost es something like 40 euros the only reason i would buy expansions on cundco is if i had a store or something
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: NGC 54 on November 26, 2020, 05:00:01 PM
Quote
I only maps similar to the previous one... This is from wikipedia:
It is not from Wikipedia. It is from Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia is just 1 from the Wikimedia projects (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation). Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a media repository. "Wikipedia" should not be confused with "wiki", "MediaWiki", "Wikimedia" and "Wikimedia Foundation". See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Differences_between_Wikipedia,_Wikimedia,_MediaWiki,_and_wiki.
Title: Re: Can your postman dig a hole through the Earth to make Cundco shipping cheaper?
Post by: Meepledrone on November 27, 2020, 12:03:13 AM
Thanks for the clarification!  :(y) :(y)