When we first moved her I ordered a new Alco road switcher from Atlas. Not ever ordering anything from the mainland I just assumed it would take about a week. Wrong. I tracked it for a time but then tracking stopped. Notified the seller and he was very nice about it and offered my money back. I told him I would wait a while longer. Two months passed and I said we better work out a deal. What I didn't know my little Alco traveled across the mainland by truck to Richmond California. There it's sorted and put on a ship. If the ship is empty they wait tell its full before they set sail. Then it sails to Honolulu and sorted again. Then it's adventure is on a barge to Maui. Again it's sorted and sent to my Post Office in Lahaina. The next day it arrived after two months and four days. I called him as soon as it got here. Both of us were happy. Now everything goes priority mail and I have it in three days.
By the way we have the most wonderful postwoman here. If it's raining and it looks like trains she will always knock on the door to see if we are home. If not she takes the packages and puts them in the kitchen. We always give her a nice Christmas gift. Don
