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Answer» I ordered two printer ink cartridges from staples.com on 6/24 at about 2:45 pm. They arrived the next morning before 9 am. excellent...Meanwhile in the UK many retailers offer next day delivery on orders up until 11pm. AMAZON even offer evening delivery in some areas where you can order early in the morning and get it that evening. Then again, we are a lot smaller so there is a lot less distance to travel.In this case, I believe the order was shipped from London, Ohio [yes, we have a London ], which is about 25 MILES southwest of the Ohio capital of Columbus and I live only about 20 miles east of Columbus. And, obviously, Staples got the item out the door and into the hands of the shipper very soon after I placed the order. And, with free shipping, why bother going to a Staples store, even though the nearest one is only about 9-10 miles away and I could perhaps have postponed the purchase until I happened to be traveling in the vicinity of the store for some other purpose? Meanwhile in the UK many retailers offer next day delivery on orders up until 11pm. Amazon even offer evening delivery in some areas where you can order early in the morning and get it that evening. Then again, we are a lot smaller so there is a lot less distance to travel. I got a Zoostorm PC from eBuyer last week, I ordered it at 9.30 PM and paid online with a Visa card, it arrived at 9:15 the next morning. I tracked the order and it went something like this Fri 22:05 in dispatch eBuyer warehouse (Howden, near York) Fri 23:20 truck to Wednesbury Hub Sat 01:40 at hub Sat 02:30 truck to Bristol delivery centre Sat 04:40 arrived Bristol Sat 08:05 out for delivery Sat 09:15 delivered to my house Distance about 210 miles. The couriers were Yodel who a lot of people I know (well, one person) have been slagging off, predicting it would be late, have dents, be dumped in the wheelie bin, etc. Quote from: soybean on June 26, 2015, 09:32:21 AM The odd thing is that the ink cartridges were shipped in a box large enough to actually hold 32 cartridges. The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago.I ordered a mouse for a staff member at work and it came in a box big enough for a 5-ream (2500 sheet) box of A4 paper, the spare room being taken up with bubble wrap. I've ordered things from Staples.com and they Are very consistently super-fast. I think every single time I got it the next day. Meanwhile, I order something from Tigerdirect and it can sometimes take 3 weeks to show up, and the UPS tracking they give marks it as "delivered" once it is drop-shipped to their warehouse. An order I Placed on the 11th consisting of some components for a budget computer build is marked as delivered though all I've received so far is the Power Supply. They also like to split up orders strangely, presumably based on their stock. I'll receive a giant box with only one item, then the next day receive the rest of my order in the same size box. Even though the first item fits easily with the other items in that same box. Amazon is usually somewhere in the middle. Depending on available shipping options, of course. Quote London, Ohio [yes, we have a London ]There is a London in Ontario, Canada as well. Apparently Early Canadian settlers weren't always imaginative. Even the river running through it is called the Thames.I too like Staples.com. I ordered a 1000 watt inverter through them which I didn't know they even carried. I found it in a google search and had to double check that it was the real deal and not a scam site that sells everything searched for just to steal credit card info etc. But it was Staples. I got the 1000 watt inverter in 2 days which was a jaw DROPPER for regular shipping without paying extra. Quote The same size box was used for a shipment of only 1 cartridge when I ordered only 1 black cartridge less than 2 weeks ago. Wow lots of printing to be EATING up the ink like that. I ended up retiring my inkjet and got a Laser printer to replace it. So far I think I have saved about $120 in the ink I would have had to buy but havn't yet since the toner cartridge is still good. The replacement toner is only $39.99 too whenever I need one. Only draw back is that its not a color laser printer, and so pictures are gray scale. Cheapest printer I ever owned to operate was a Epson LQ-1050+ printer that I bought 2nd hand at a 2nd hand store in the late 1990s for $15 which came with the Parallel Centronics Cable. The ribbon for it was like $6 each and the ribbon would last a very long time printing to the tractor feed paper. I had this back in college and only draw back was clicking print and printing 12 pages of C++ code for a college project at 4:30am and my wife yelling at me to shut the printer off its so ____ loud! I gave it away to a neighbor who needed a printer and I should have kept it. He killed it dumping and ash tray and a beer into it. I got a Epson C60 ink jet and that made my wife happy for late night or early morning printing when she was sleeping. But I got bit by the Epson counter with this printer where after so many printed pages it FAULTS out and you have to throw it away outside of the warranty period.... or as I learned online by a russian hardware hacker reset the internal counter and the printer comes back to life like nothing ever went wrong with it. Epsons statement to this counter feature that leads to it to brick itself was because they figured that after say 10,000 pages the ink pad in the compartment where the ink cartridge parks itself could be overflowing with ink and to protect from ink leaking out of a Epson C60 printer, they decided to have it become non functional with no error message other than a blinking red/green light at the online button. The real intent was to force you to have to buy a new printer vs making a printer that would last a while as part of a planned obsolescence scheme. I havent bought an Epson ever since that one. The laser printer I got I got 2 of them for $29.99 off newegg on black friday deal and they work really well even though no name Pantum Brand and it takes this cartridge: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828731012&nm_mc=KNC-MSNSearch&cm_mmc=KNC-MSNSearch-_-pla-_-Printer+/+Fax+-+Toners-_-28731012Quote from: DaveLembke on June 26, 2015, 11:34:45 AM Cheapest printer I ever owned to operate was a Epson LQ-1050+ printer that I bought 2nd hand at a 2nd hand store in the late 1990s for $15 which came with the Parallel Centronics Cable. The ribbon for it was like $6 each and the ribbon would last a very long time I had an LQ-850. You could get more life out of one by prying the top off and squirting a little WD-40 over the ribbon and then spooling it back and forth by hand a few times... |
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