On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 14:39 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Herbert Graf wrote:
> > Hehe, yes, has happened a couple times, but I certainly don't rely on
> > it! Even more amazing is they're based in Winnipeg, probably 1000 to
> > 1200 miles away from me!
> 
> I'm pretty sure DigiKey ships from their single location in Thief River
> Falls Minnesota.

AFAIK Digikey basically has a huge warehouse in Canada, and the
digikey.ca site always lists the inventory at the Canadian warehouse.

The reason I say this is customs is never involved, I always pay GST
direct on the order (ordering from the US usually results in the courier
charging me the GST), and the purolator tracking always shows the pickup
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

For example, this was the tracking information for the last package I
received from Digikey:

2005/12/29 12:46 Delivered to GRAF at AT DOOR
2005/12/29 08:01 On vehicle for delivery 
2005/12/28 22:56 Left WINNIPEG, MB

I do remember a time when it WASN'T like this, and shipments usually
ended up taking almost a week, just getting through customs sometimes
took a few days. I guess Digikey thought there was a big enough market
in Canada to open up some operation here. Boy am I glad they did! :)

TTYL

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