a general dissatisfaction with the overall situation and why dirtypcbs.com is awesome

"a general dissatisfaction with the overall situation" - that's a loosely translation of a german movie quote which describes my feelings with the postal offices in Germany. So it might have been, that the boards where already as close as 20m (that's 60feet?) from my flat, but I wasn't around to pick it up since I was in America at that time and my flower watering guy was not able to pick it up from the post-office where it was brought to because I did not write an warrant. I still wonder why a 16mm package wouldn't fit in my post box, but anyway. My flower guy told me that only yesterday, so with 2 weeks of holding time for international packages they probably got send back.

So I wrote exactly that to the dirtypcbs.com guys and they replied pretty fast ( < 1 hour), considering their disclaimer, and they will make new ones and send them to me! Awesome! Makes me want to create 10x10 boards now.

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Stefan-Xp wrote 07/20/2015 at 18:48

BTW&OT: Is that movie "The shoe of Manitou"? ;)

Very nice, that they manufacture new ones ;)

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davedarko wrote 07/20/2015 at 19:21

double indeed :)

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 07/20/2015 at 12:19

Now this is what I call customer service. I mean dirtypcbs, not postal office. On the other side, it gave me a little bit of heart warming feeling I'm not the only one in this situation.

Regarding the 20m/60 feet dilemma - yes, it is something like 66 feet, but the non-metric folks around here will be OK with 0,1 furlong. 99,42 milifurlongs, to be precise. That equals to 4E9 beardseconds. Or 648,3 attoparsecs. 11,76 smoots. I love non-metric units.

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davedarko wrote 07/20/2015 at 13:16

I'm so happy that they made it that easy and just wanted to make a little shout out :)

I should have measured that, before talking about it or just say "in home WiFi range". If it weren't for conversions, I wouldn't care about units at all, since it is only a relation to another known object anyway. What makes it harder is this "3/8 of an inch" stuff - although I like the "clean" feeling of two integers, converting this to cm in your head is just a mess.

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 07/20/2015 at 14:05

Oh yes, those divison notations, like 3/8 inch, I love it too.

Then, 20m would be 10 and 390/512 of smoot, or just 5510/512 of smoot, if you want to have it simple :)

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