DougieLawson wrote:W. H. Heydt wrote:leon_heller wrote:I get free shipping from Farnell (same company as Newark) for orders over £20, here in the UK.
From RS as well.
Generally speaking...distances are shorter in the UK. Or, as one version of an old joke has it, in the US, a hundred years is a long time; in Europe, a hundred miles is a long distance.
When I order from MCM--they're in Ohio and I'm in California--the shipping distance is the better part of 2000 miles.
You do, do distances to a different order of magnitude over there in Leftpondia.
Here in Rightpondia, when I saw
W. H. Heydt wrote:
That's all very well...but the nearest Microcenter store to where I live is something over 400 miles away. Not exactly a place to go to on a whim.
my first thought was that's the distance between London & Edinburgh.
Yup....and it doesn't even leave the state. I live just a bit north of San Francisco (in Vallejo), and the nearest Microcenter is a bit south of Los Angeles (in Tustin).