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I bought something on ebay, it was in Florida, being shipped to Michigan. It's apparently being shipped by USPS. Can anyone explain the route the package is taking? It got to within 14 miles of it's destination and then took a thousand mile detour. Read from bottom to top...

Here's an article that shows how countries rank on a wealth per person scale, in terms of average and median numbers. I've seen these sorts of numbers before, and I've always been curious how or why Australia ranks so high. Perhaps our Australian FCBO members can explain this...

(putting this here, don't know where else) https://moparinsiders.com/a-letter-to-the-people-saving-chrysler-a-call-to-action/ A Letter to the People: Saving Chrysler – A Call to Action A Call to Investors and Workers to Rebuild the Automaker... Frank Rhodes Jr. I am writing to you today not...

Haggerty has a story about a recent change to Michigan's rules on driving a car with historic license plates, or (I guess) otherwise registered as a "historic" vehicle. Michigan's laws were similar to Ontario (Canada) where if you register your car as historic, it severely limits how much and...

There are some people selling stuff that only want to deal with payment via USPS money orders. Can this Canadian get an explanation as to how this is done if I'm making a quick trip to the US? I understand that a MO can be bought at a post office or a kiosk. The hours at a post office are...

I'm 10 miles north of the total ecplise zone, it's going to be a traffic zoo around here as people head to Port Stanley and the beach on the Lake Erie north shore to be well into the zone. It it's going to be anything like today (wall to wall sunshine) then a lot of people are going to be...

A final phase of demolition got underway Monday at the Packard Plant on Detroit's east side as the mayor declared that most of what's left of the infamous graffiti-scrawled ruins will all be down by year's end. The city will preserve two structures of the Packard Plant for their historical...

https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/01/12/eus-controversial-car-laws-vs-repairing-older-vehicles/ The proposal, originating from the European Commission and yet to be ratified, aims to phase out older, more polluting vehicles in favour of environmentally friendly options. This prospective...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/1934-style-packard-motor-car-will-soon-be-rolling-production-line-ohio-again https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/12/packard-motors-gets-ready-to-build-its-newold-cars-to-order.html

Bit of a long post, bottom line is that at some point in or after 2005, Ford Motor company was considering, or did, or wanted to do, the following: -------------- The Ford Customer Service Division will import used automotive parts from Canada. The exporter will be Ford Motor Company of...

Gas is the cheapest it's been for a while around here, so I filled up. Filled an extra 5 gal can while I was at it.

I was going through some old boxes of stuff and came across a pretty thick parts catalog (1997) from Valley Vintage Auto Parts in Brunswick Ohio. I was curious if they were still around, it seems in 2015 they still might have been, but maybe only as an Ebay store but ebay says the store is not...

I asked ChatGPT to write a motto for a Chrysler C-Body user group. The answer I got was: "Drive with Pride, Share with Pride: The Chrysler C-Body Experience."

From RockAuto's latest newsletter. I've never heard of this before. What is the Dodge Fratzog? Answer: A. The triangular logo used by Dodge from the early 1960s through the late 1970s. (Dodge plans to bring back this triangle logo to use on its upcoming electric vehicles. Source...