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GLA Postal Services

Alright, so it wasn’t actually delivered by a GLA Bomb Truck… Would have been funny though
Thankfully, my deliveries arrived intact and weren’t blown up by a high-explosive, anthrax or nuclear payload.

In case, you haven’t been reading this blog, or my Twitter… or in case I just never mentioned it, I ordered a decent amount of stuff online recently. And yesterday while at home, I was able to pick it all up, hence my elevated mood today

Alright, to the nitty gritty details…

• All 26 currently released in Singapore volumes of English-language Pokémon Adventures

  Yes, you probably did read correctly the first time. I did buy a heck of a load of books related to Pokémon. If you think back to some post I made a few months ago where I first mentioned my discovery of the manga section on Serebii.net, then you’ll understand.
  If you want to buy yourself, here’s a current eBay listing. If it’s expired, just view the seller’s page and you’ll find a new listing, and if not, just message him and he’ll set it up. Overall price for product, shipping, and shipping insurance was $305.97 (€207.55 at the time). Shipping took approximately 6 business days, which is pretty good for halfway across the world. I’ll definitely be ordering again when the new volumes are released, although it’ll probably take a while to get through the backlog

  Pic: (to be inserted after publishing cos Windows Live Writer can’t handle the Gallery…)

  
• Ctrl+Alt+Del T-shirts and Zeke plushie from Splitreason.comNow if you think the manga shipping was fast, this delivery was quicker. Although it was only from Canada rather than Singapore… well, it was from Canada. You know you can’t trust most Canadians
  Anyway, shipped the 15th, arrived the 19th. Right now, I have the Ethan T-shirt on me, which should look good at console gaming today. Plan on wearing the Zeke T-shirt tomorrow at the Mezz night
  One thing I will say is that although most of my other T-shirts are Large, their Large are at first a little too large, but they should shrink slightly with use, making them an ideal fit. Pictures to follow soon, primarily because every picture of it being worn by a fan - in this case me - earns said fan a $10 store discount. Which helps to pay for the shipping. Probably the reason shipping was $22, for a $49 order might have been the distance, and also the fact I selected the delivery method between express, and ground mail.
• Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for 360, from Gamesenders.ieNow, if both of those delivery times were impressive, this was even better. I received an e-mail from them yesterday afternoon around 1pm saying that it had been shipped out. Was leaving with Aoife this morning to drop her to school (around 9am), and what was in the letterbox but Tib Wars! Woot. Will be on later and for a couple of weeks, if you would like to be steamrollered by a bunch of Avatars or Tripods
  No need for picture cos it’s nothing but a game disc!