[quote name='GlassAgate']"Oh my, you're from Alaska? I'm sorry, but we only ship 2-day air
to Alaska. What's this? A PO Box? I'm sorry, but we don't ship
to PO Boxes."
I really like Amazon. I've saved a bunch with their free shipping.
Sure, it may take a week or two, but it's free. Just time out your
shipments, and you'll have something to do while you wait.
From Amazon directly, most of the stuff can be shipped to a PO
Box, but some items can't. For those, I have a physical
address that they can ship to.
With the sites that only offer expensive shipping, you can normally
add a lot to your order before the shipping cost jumps a step.
I get from places like this is they have a really good deal, or a hard
to find game.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I don't get the two day only shipping to this place. I sell games on ebay all the time and it costs me about $1.80 through USPS for first class, so it is obviously available and cheap so I don't know how these companies get off on not using it.
Their loss, I just go through amazon. I have noticed on bigger items, like a console, I will get UPS ground even with the free shipping which is nice of them. Anyone ever have luck price matching at BB here, I've tried but they never seem to even know the deals in their own stores.
At least in Anchorage we have access to some of the stores. When I lived in Fairbanks from 97-00, I had to mail order everything because there was only Fred's who would get things weeks later or a local shop that would charge twice the price.
As far as car detailing, I don't know of any big companies that do that here, mostly small mom and pop type places you'll see around town. I usually don't bother, in a week my jeep is usually just as dirty again. Maybe there is a place on your base that can do it.
Welcome to town.