After nearly three months our packages have arrived from the USA, only two months and two weeks later than the freight forwarding shipper guaranteed.
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On two prior occasions I've used a Cambodian freight forwarding company in Long Beach, California, to send items from the USA to my family and I here in Cambodia, and the two prior shipments went as planned, roughly 2 to 4 weeks door-to-door. This shipment was due to arrive around Christmas time last year, so needless to say it's a little late.
I have stayed in touch with the company, but one excuse after another provided reasons that our packages weren't in the skies and bound for Cambodia. First it was Chinese New Year, then the excuses got lazier and lazier until I more or less gave up contacting the freight forwarder.
I was actually surprised to receive a phone call notifying me the packages arrived in Phnom Penh. I ordered the stuff online in November of last year, and by now I'd actually forgotten what I ordered. It's quite disappointing to pay for air freight and know that container ships completed this California-Cambodia roundtrip journey twice within this timespan.
The Goods 📦
To add a little insult to injury, when I went to pick up the packages in the nearest town after having them shipped from Phnom Penh, the local shipper misplaced one of the boxes, so I came home with only 2 of the 3 packages that were sent from Phnom Penh, and I hate to admit this is quite typical in Cambodia, customer service is almost non-existent.
The upside to this long unintended wait is that it really was almost like a Christmas of sorts because I had no idea what I purchased nearly a half a year ago. There was an electric tuner and case for Srey-Yuu's ukulele, and also a new raincoat and ballcap, all in her favorite color, black.
Monkey-B got a few things too, but I suspect most of her stuff was in the third package misplaced at the shipper's house in the town. Srey-Yuu also got a die to cut her own guitar picks, so I expect her musical career to take off very soon 😄.
Monkey-B got a Lite-Brite, a toy I enjoyed playing with in the 1980s, but a more updated version with LED lighting, and not nearly as heavy as my childhood Lite-Brite which was an occasional weapon to fight off bigger brothers and sisters.
I'm sure the girls will detail all their goods in future posts, so I won't go into great detail about their stuff. I am super happy to have a new water bottle and a hiking water filter. Now I have everything needed to climb the mountain behind our house, so that will be happening soon, perhaps before I travel to the USA in a month or so. That's all for now folks, stay tuned for package #3.........
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