[Milsurplus] PRC-74

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I'm not sure of the numbers of containers lost
overboard each year, but I think I have read
that it's in the tens of thousands!

Mac - K2GKK
Oklahoma City



----Original Message Follows----
From: joldenburg2 at new.rr.com
To: WA5CAB at cs.com
CC: jwatkins at omantel.net.om, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] PRC-74
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:56:42 -0600

I had a similar experience, 92-days for a motorcycle carb to make it from 
here in the USA to England. It was during the Christmas rush season also so 
it was considered good time. The problem comes in that the postal service is 
filling sea containers the size of a semi trailer. Sometimes it might take a 
month or more to accumulate enough mail to fill one going to a particular 
location. I always stress this to a person insisting on saving money that it 
could a number of months for arrival  via surface post verses a week by air 
post.

Jon W. Oldenburg AB9AH "A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two 
tired."