Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #33
Shipment
-Hello?
-Mr. gan Fhéile?
-Yes
-You filled in a request online for a quote on shipping personal effects from Kansas City to Liverpool?
-Yes, but only because when I selected Dublin from your options it told me upon completion that it couldn’t give me an answer then as Dublin wasn’t in your matrix so it would have to email the results to me at some stage, but the emails for the Dublin calculation kept bouncing back so I then selected Liverpool as the nearest city to get a comparable estimation, and got the instant results.
-I see. So you’re talking about shipping to Dublin?
-Yes
-Well, you should know that just like it costs an extra $800 to transport your shipment from Kansas City to the coast, so when it gets to Liverpool it would cost about the same to put it on a train to Dublin
-Ok, but I was thinking that since Dublin is on a coast and like Liverpool is also a port, that maybe the ship could go there instead and for the same cost as it might deliver it to Liverpool with the cities being pretty equidistant from here in KC and the very reason why I chose Liverpool in the calculation instead of Dublin when your Dublin option was failing - and that would then save the cost of putting the shipment on this train that somehow goes across the Irish Sea to Dublin?
-I see what you’re saying
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Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Ha! So finally an American shipping company realises there are actually places they can ship to … on a ship, like.