The Pyra is coming!


So when the UPS Guy rings on my Doorbell, its my shiny new 3G Pyra???
 No, that rule is only for international shipping.

Why does that strike me as something UPS would have lobbied for...?
It's not. I can also use DHL Express or FedEx, but they're not cheaper.

Only normal shipping doesn't work.

Every employee involved in the transportation needs to be trained to be able to do that.

That training costs money which most of the normal postal services don't want to pay for (I know Deutsche Post (the german postal service) doesn't, as I told me that when I asked).

UPS, DHL Express, etc. have trained their employees, so they can transport the goods.

I suppose this means you can't ship individual batteries either? Would there be anything gained by shipping just the battery through UPS and the rest of the system through someone sane?
It wouldn't make things cheaper, as the battery would still have to be shipped as a package, not as a letter.

Here is some nice information in case you want to read about it further:

http://www.rosebatteries.com/lithium_regulations.asp
 
Btw, when you are going to ship these Pandora's? Next week?
 
Yes, physikaly,

i know, in this 2 Yeahrs, im a Pandora owner, my Unit wasnt used that carefull, but it still works great..

and i know, a employe of Gamepark, some yeahrs ago tropped EvilDragons Pandora Prototyphe on the flor, but it still works..
 
Well, Pandoras cab survive at big events like GamesCom, where they are used by hundreds (thousands?) of more-or-less careful people & kids.

So it's pretty tough ;)
 
It's not. I can also use DHL Express or FedEx, but they're not cheaper.
There's a conspiracy theory (at least in North America: USA and Canada) that politicians are intentionally trying to drive federal post service out of business in order to push privatized delivery services like UPS and DHL, and looking at all the rules and restrictions that USPS and Canada Post have to put up with that the private companies don't it's hard to not believe it's true.
 
It's not. I can also use DHL Express or FedEx, but they're not cheaper.
There's a conspiracy theory (at least in North America: USA and Canada) that politicians are intentionally trying to drive federal post service out of business in order to push privatized delivery services like UPS and DHL, and looking at all the rules and restrictions that USPS and Canada Post have to put up with that the private companies don't it's hard to not believe it's true.
Except that it's not the politicians driving the restrictions on lithium battery shipping,  it's IATA.  (The airlines, collectively)  

-Neelix
 
It's not. I can also use DHL Express or FedEx, but they're not cheaper.
There's a conspiracy theory (at least in North America: USA and Canada) that politicians are intentionally trying to drive federal post service out of business in order to push privatized delivery services like UPS and DHL, and looking at all the rules and restrictions that USPS and Canada Post have to put up with that the private companies don't it's hard to not believe it's true.
Except that it's not the politicians driving the restrictions on lithium battery shipping,  it's IATA.  (The airlines, collectively)  

-Neelix
And then we get to where Amazon got brilliant with their shipping.  Say what you will about the company, but they have the package shipping side of their business well sorted.

They have started to ship the overseas/cross country leg via private carriers (UPS) which then gets delivered to the door/mailbox by the US Postal Service.  They pretty much 'saved' the US Postal service from going to 4 days per week delivery and took them from 6 days to 7.

I have no idea how that deal works, but from the end consumer perspective it's fantastic and fast - complete with Sunday package delivery.  I doubt if a small company can get in on that kind of deal.
 
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Wow - that just gave me a crazy thought.  ED - any thoughts around using something like Amazon for order fulfillment?  Yes, they take a chunk/cut just like any other re-seller would.  Service wouldn't be as good as what you get with Link.  BUT they have worldwide fulfillment and shipping nailed.
 
Since 'Well sorted out' in this case is just an euphemism for unethical business practices i vote 'No Amazon'.
 
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I already sell via Amazon. They take 15% for electronics if you ship yourself, probably more if they ship for you. They take about the same as every other reseller, so there wouldn't be any difference compared to having e.g. Link as reseller.
 
And then we get to where Amazon got brilliant with their shipping.  Say what you will about the company, but they have the package shipping side of their business well sorted.
Not in the UK. Here, they bought up the cheapest couriers (who are basically still a massive franchise operation - all the actual couriers are local people with cars in the main).

To be fair to them, it's got slightly better since Amazon bought them, presumably because they gave them handheld devices to keep track of what goes where.  But they're still nothing like a professional courier, like those ED and others use.
 
Yes, physikaly,

i know, in this 2 Yeahrs, im a Pandora owner, my Unit wasnt used that carefull, but it still works great..

and i know, a employe of Gamepark, some yeahrs ago tropped EvilDragons Pandora Prototyphe on the flor, but it still works..
I dropped my unit from about 1m high before it's first month. Screen broke, had to send back. So I have the impression they are very weak.

My GB color, GBA and DS were dropped at least 3 times each and they are all undamaged from it.
 
Yes, physikaly,

i know, in this 2 Yeahrs, im a Pandora owner, my Unit wasnt used that carefull, but it still works great..

and i know, a employe of Gamepark, some yeahrs ago tropped EvilDragons Pandora Prototyphe on the flor, but it still works..
I dropped my unit from about 1m high before it's first month. Screen broke, had to send back. So I have the impression they are very weak.

My GB color, GBA and DS were dropped at least 3 times each and they are all undamaged from it.
The GB line prior to the SP were extremely durable.  Their handhelds after that were not quite as tough, and sometimes little things can do major damage (There is a Zelda DS lite with a dead screen in my house that I haven't repaired yet that verifies this).  Even things designed with durability in mind can sometimes break from such a drop if they hit the wrong thing the wrong way.  

I don't think the Pandora was supposed to be dropproof.  For mine, all the things I worry will damage it have not caused problems, yet I got a crack from something didn't think about, the tab to the right of the screen slipping and pushing the lid out.  Pandora/Pyra are toys for adults, not kids.  Don't drop them.
 
He literally said " Keep it away from children under 9!" :D
 
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Keep it away from adults with butterfingers.  I know many of those.  Maybe they can play with it when sitting at a table, but even that isn't likely to keep it safe from some of the people I know.
 
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