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Here in South Africa when sending a parcel through the postal system (not via a courier) the parcel gets delivered to the branch closest to the recipients address and they have to fetch it.
How does it work in the US? Do they actually deliver the parcel to the address or must someone go fetch it at a post office?
And how does it work in the UK?
The reason I'm asking is because there are some items I want to purchase from the US and UK and I want to make use of a parcel forwarding service (cheaper than international postage fees and they do the customs work for you). If the postal systems deliver rather than the recipient having to fetch the parcel then it would work for me.
Thx 
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In the UK, the post man (or a courier driver) turns up at your door with the goods.
If you aren't there, they may try to leave it with a neighbor (and a card will go through your door to tell you which), or they may leave it at the door if it seems secure. It's unusual to have to go to a depot to collect it - but it has happened with Royal Mail a couple of times.
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Ordering from the UK or US will be no different than ordering from SA, the UK postal service is not going to physically deliver your parcel, they will only handle the UK side. Once it goes on a plane\boat to SA it becomes the responsibility of whoever is sub-contracted in SA to deliver the parcel.
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Good point! 
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I don't think you understand the situation  But you have sort of answered my question as Griff has already done.
A lot of sellers don't want to post overseas, but I have an account with a company that have postboxes in the US and UK where the local seller can post to. Then when the parcel arrives at the forwarding company's postbox they courier it the rest of the way to SA and deliver it to me. This is cheaper than the seller using international postage and the forwarder takes care of customs and import duties and paperwork, billed to me of course. I want to do this because there are some items that are not locally available in SA. My question was whether the local US / UK postal service delivers to the local postbox or whether a parcel needs to be collected from the post office branch
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Having read the thread... I'll answer this way for the U.S.
If you are sending an item to an address, the item will be delivered to the address - that can be a residence or a business.
If, however, you are sending the item to a P.O. Box (Post Office Box), then it will stay at the Postal Station where the P.O. Box is registered and someone needs to pick it up from there.
There are some residences that do not have postal delivery and the resident must rent a P.O. box and pick up there mail from there.
A former co-worker wanted to order tickets for a golf tournament, but his delivery address was a P.O. Box and the sellers would not ship tickets to a P.O. Box, so he arranged with a friend to have them delivered to a residence and picked them up from there.
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It's an address, not a P.O Box, so it seems like it will work. With SA postal you have to fetch the parcel at the PO whether it's an residential, business or PO box.
Thx
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Just looking at the fact, that one team with 4 draws and 2 wins can make ti the final...
It may be that never was spent so much money for such a crap...
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Don't say such nonsense, Ronaldo is a great actor.
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We can test some of the laws of God like we can test the laws of science to find out if they are abolished or not. To find out if the law of gravity was nailed to the cross, we can drop things. You see, every law has a penalty (or it wouldn't be a law, it would be a suggestion). When you break the speed limit law, the penalty is a fine. When you engage in football hooliganism, the penalty is a ban or deportation or worse. There are football hooligans from the 1990s still held in the remains on concentration camps in Europe.
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What are you talking about? Your post makes no sense for what OP was saying about Portugal
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marie915 wrote: There are football hooligans from the 1990s still held in the remains on concentration camps in Europe.
Nah, that's just London! 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
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Yeah since they added the 1/8 finals the whole system seems broke. I found it refreshing to have more teams going on at first but since it was "easily" possible to go on with 3 draws it felt kinda broke. I think they have to review the points system to rebalance it now.
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It made the group stages really dull when games where both teams were happy for a draw due to 3 out of 4 qualifying. Actually it's been one of the worst tournaments for entertainment there's been in years. It seems to have caused all the big teams to end up in one half of the draw also.
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Wastedtalent wrote: . It seems to have caused all the big teams to end up in one half of the draw also.
That was more because the "big" teams played like sh*t...
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Tempting as it is to believe that France and Germany were always going to end up in one semi-final if they won their groups as expected. The other semi would still have been Portugal if they'd won the group as expected so it's really only Wales that represented the fly in the ointment on that side of the draw.
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Spain, England and Portugal were all supposedly the favorites in their respective groups.
Both England and Spain would have ended up in the other half of the table if they would have been the group winner. For Portugal it didn't really matter, as they'd have gone into that half of the table anyways.
I'd say if all of the favorites would have lived up to the expectations the table would have been quite balanced.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Just looking at the fact, that one team with 4 draws and 2 wins can make ti the final...
It may be that never was spent so much money for such a crap...
And they probably only scored two goals to get those four draws and two wins 
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Think yourself lucky. It was possible to win the whole thing with 7 draws. The 24 team tournaments in the World Cup were disastrous but never let it be said that UEFA lets cold, hard experience get in the way!
There were only 53 teams entered in the first place but it took 266 games to whittle that down to just below half. Then it took another 36 games to get rid of just another 8 before sanity in the form of actual knockout games took over. Hardly the stuff of dreams!
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The few bit of the game in the trailer make it look like it's fundamentally a side-scroller. I didn't think anyone made them, any more.
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Yeah, this introduction left the viewer wondering what the game play is like!
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Surprisingly there are a bunch of them. Mostly by independent developers... I had the luck to play a fairly well made one, a cyberpunk side-scrolling RPG.
It's NOT worth its retail price (20€) but I found it discoutned and DRM-Free on GOG and for 5€ it was enjoyable. Very immersive if a bit short.
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