(06-03-2016, 05:35 AM)AzBob_imp Wrote: I'm not exactly sure why people are surprised stuff takes only a couple of days to get here from Japan... you can be anywhere in the world in about 24 hours, the hang up is customs, not the distance.
Well, we're not talking about individual travel here, we're talking about (government run) organizations handling the transit of packages which they have no investment in! And considering UPS often took two days to deliver packages from my office in downtown L.A. to a customer in Temple City - maybe 15 miles away - a couple of days from Japan to the U.S. sounds kinda like a minor miracle.