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ripb on Nov 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Amazons of the dark net

No not necessarily. I use PM a lot here in Ireland, mainly for things that only have UK shipping available, or free shipping to the UK but not elsewhere, etc.

PM is €3-€4 for a standard package, so what I'll regularly encounter is things on Amazon that are free delivery to the UK but quite a bit more expensive than PM to be delivered to Ireland.

Things also seem to ship through PM drastically faster than through the normal postal service.

barking on Nov 2, 2014 [–]

It's occurred to me how similar this conversation is to this

http://xkcd.com/538/

The real criminals will have the stuff delivered to some poor unfortunate who they've scared witless and not worry about the minutiae.

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