jacnl2000

"I think that any policy decision would come in the period after the 2012 federal elections and the end of the year."

Prospects for 2013 depend on it ?

For me personally it's always a pleasure to keep on tasting their sapporots and see a next generation of talent dancing their way into old habits of thinking.

string onion is simply a young chalotte, just a bit milder

In exactly what way does a chopped stem of a spring union, shallot and chive taste different to people ?

Or do most people simply select them based upon differences in bite and looks ?

My taste is probably not refined enough to detect a difference in taste between the green colored stems of spring unions and shallots.

Sometimes I like to add last minute chopped chives to a hot dish not only because of its relative strong bite but especially because in my mouth chopped chives (in Dutch "bieslook") simulates a spicy taste without being real spicy.

Modern slavery is quite a hot item these days.

Take a look at e.g. the Dutch 'elected Ambassador of the year' of 2006:

http://www.rnw.nl/en...le/slaves-hague

This post contains tracked data related to 2 items send on different days via registered ThaiPost from a village in the northeast of Thailand to another village in the south of the Netherlands. Draw your own conclusions.

My data supports the following findings of previous poster using registered EMS:

"Took one day from my province to Suv. and then?

Don't blame Thailand Post for the unbelievable delays from there."

First item delivered at the postoffice in a village in the northeast of Thailand:

19-10-2012 11:42:55 ThaiPost Accept

20-10-2012 13:04:35 ThaiPost Suv. Mail Centre Container Received

30.10.2012 PostNL Shipment received in destination country

31.10.2012 PostNL Shipment sorted

01.11.2012 PostNL Shipment distributed

01.11.2012 PostNL Shipment received via PostNL parcel service.

Question 1 : what’s going on between 20-10-2012 ThaiPost and 30-10-2012 PostNL during 10 days ? Something at one of the airports involved (Suv. or Schiphol) is causing quite a large delay...

Second item delivered at the postoffice in a village in the northeast of Thailand:

24-10-2012 ThaiPost Accept

25-10-2012 ThaiPost Suv. Mail Centre Container Received

29.10.2012 PostNL shipment received in destination country

30.10.2012 PostNL Shipment sorted

31.10.2012 PostNL Shipment distributed

31.10.2012 PostNL Shipment received via PostNL parcel service.

Question 2 : what’s going on between 25-10-2012 ThaiPost and 29-10-2012 PostNL, now not during 10 days, but only during 4 days ?

This second later shipment has been received 1 day earlier in the destination country than the first shipment which had been send 5 days earlier !

Question 3: Were both shipments flown in by the same plane or different planes ?

Question 4 : why was the second item one day earlier at its destination address than the first item which was shipped 5 days earlier ?

Only the existence of some kind of first in last out (thus last in first out) buffer is able to explain these differences in time. Somebody at one of the airports involved must have been accumulating mail somewhere for quite some time and it’s not an exact FIFO system.

Rgds.

Registered mail is tracked till it leaves the country.

If you want to track it till destination use EMS mail next time.

Yermanee

What's the difference between EMS and Registered Mail? Every letter I send, they charge me 65 Baht + postage and I can track it all the way to the destination.

EMS is intended for business items/parcels which flow through a separate international network and will due to its highest priority always be processed before items/parcels of other mail systems. More transactions are involved, so it’s probably more expensive.

1 month at the airport

I got a laugh out of that one too. It's simply not true.

"It's simply not true." characterizes corresponding management logic applied in denial.

zombie thread

Maybe.

Sometimes a Zombie Thread refers to real Zombie threats.

Allow me to introduce an applicable definition:

Zombie threat:

additional costs caused by a funny walking creature being a poor apolgy of [mis]managements mind mapped employees.

It’s quite normal that (e.g. Dutch) mail’s hanging at Thai international Suvarnabhumi Airport for e.g. 1 week (mean value of a normal distribution), because those mail containers are not going to be shipped every single day. According to my latest calculations Dutch mail containers are shipped per almost every 2 weeks from Thai international Suvarnabhumi Airport, giving these Dutch mail containers a chance to gather incoming mail from all over Thailand for the Netherlands during almost 2 weeks.

However, when a Thai employee is handling these Dutch containers in Thailand under the probable condition “Oh, I seem to have forgotten one” (as my wife usually does) or “this one isn’t quite full enough yet”, then yes, waiting time can be doubled and become most quickly equal to 1 month. Maybe your mail container, depending upon destination country, is only emptied once per month maybe ? The original post (OP) does not describe the original posters (OPs) past experiences and expectations.

Chronological orders of sending and receiving daily mail can be according my own (Dutch) experiences quite different too. That depending upon how mail containers received in the destination country the Netherlands at Schiphol Airport are exactly being processed. In the destination country additional processing of incoming mail containers is needed. E.g. the actual conversion of incoming Thai trace & track codes to PostNL track & trace codes. The computer doing the conversion can NOT be accessed by costumers via a webbased program. That information is only available via phoning PostNL. Emptying and processing the incoming mail container can take more than only 1 day, due to e.g. differences in time zones and availability of employees. So, at the first day in the destination country not all mail received will immediately pop up in their tracking system but only the ones which have been processed, registered, and have already been send away to todays oh so busy distribution centre. It is at exactly such a specific point in time chronological orders may start to differ. That’s why some items which have been send one week after other items can be received one day earlier than the ones send 1 week before. Such an idiotic crazy system without having smart internal buffers build in is keeping the Dutch PostNL boys and girls quite busy, isn’t it ? Not one single visit but two visits in two days. Due to the increasing amount of todays popular webbased internet shops and consequently overloaded distribution centres this is not considered to be an inefficiency problem. Corresponding Dutch PostNL vehicles are every single day always somewhere in our neighbourhood.

Sending registered mail to Thailand via PostNL has become quite expensive during the last years. When sending mail to the Netherlands I tell my wife always to use registered mail via ThaiPost simply because in the Netherlands the employees who take care of the delivery and will ask you for a signature are much more reliable than some of the currently new employees implementing the non registered PostNL routes in the Netherlands. These new employees are payed wages too low and some of them seem to have dumped quite a few bags of mail inside their own garage after they’ve accepted better paid jobs elsewhere. Maybe those smart internal buffers I was referring to earlier here above do still exist within PostNL but are maybe emptied much too quickly by most probably new Dutch young and too ambitious employees who just as the Thai employees “forget” to think in terms of consequences.

Don’t expect

http://track.thailandpost.co.th/trackinternet/Default.aspx?lang=en

to trace mail in the destination country!

Other posts in this thread have already accurately explained what to do.

ThaiPost does not seem to be the problem simply because the destination endpoint within Thailand has been reached being Thai international Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Have not had one bad experience yet with registered Thai mail via ThaiPost.

I do not know what exactly the last message “Outgoing International” means in the OP. All of my registered mails via ThaiPost are also “outgoing international” (to the Netherlands) but in my case the ThaiPost tracking system always stops at “SUVARNABHUMI MAIL CENTRE Container Received”, thus never mentions the additional message “Outgoing International.” Don’t know what that’s supposed to mean, exactly ? May be due to a small local change in procedures during time at the international airport ? I am only capable of checking my own most recent Thai track and trace numbers of ThaiPost. Thailand has a direct flight connection to the Netherlands (via KLM, Eva Air, China Airways). Maybe the messages listed by the OP differ because no direct flights are available to the destination country, thus requiring a reroute somewhere ? That should not be a problem. Do not know what to think. Who knows, the delay may be caused by customs in the destination country first wanting to perform some item tests ? I don’t think so, then these tests can be done rather quickly.

More supporting evidence concerning the functioning of Dutch PostNL (in Dutch language; first vid dated 17-oct-2012 and second vid one year earlier dated 08-nov-2011, so it seems not much has happened last year in relation to improvments @ PostNL):

My personal opinion: WARNING à do NOT follow the Dutch non registered route !!!

Today it’s the second of November 2012. Hope the registered mail of the OP via ThaiPost has already been received in the destination country…

Rgds.

Thanks for reminding me of my destination : - )

Title of this thread "Perfect Day" reminds me of one of my most perfect days in the Netherlands when our catholic church clock was struck by lightning and stopped time in our little village for almost more than a week. When I asked our local priest why time had stopped he told me that the batteries were empty and needed to be replaced.

Maybe the Social Skill test is missing a bit of Japanese precision:

Enjoy!

That's a question I've asked myself quite often, repeatedly, especially the last few years. Money simply doesn't seem to have value anymore. Hope not to be trumped one of these days.

Hiker falls, dies, after group attacked by bees on Camelback Mountain:

Phoenix Fire Departmen spokesmen McDonald said 3 men were being attacked by bees just off of Echo Canyon trail. The men were on a trail near an area called Ice Box Canyon.

Remember to have seen a lovely picture of that area a few years ago.

Btw. also one of my grandfathers used to have a few hives before the second world war started, just as almost all his neighbours. Today all of these hives have disappeared.

+1

I took a look.

He's having a look.

I guess where he's coming from and going to must be both great places !

:-)

Thanks!!!

They sure managed to build a year-on-year record breaking boat that floats quite successfully during the last 10 years. Currently some pensioners in the Netherlands tend to believe their old cash-and-carry stores of the early 60s of previous century were trashcan fillers: invitations to buy more than they actually needed. I figured out a 2011 monthly total revenue of approx. 4.100 BHT for each of all registered (assuming to be true) member-shoppers. That's an equivalent of approx. 1 full shopping car every 2 weeks for each of them...

Definitely same eyes as ex parrot in Monty Python.

One more question then. I conclude that if i wire E5000 i pay the same cover charge B200 as when i wire E50. Right?

ING charges the same cover charge (E5) for B4000 as well as for E5000 (0.1% with a min. of E5 and max. of E50). Today E5 equals approx. 198,6121 BHT. So, yes, B200, but you're only partially right when you assume ING would wire E5000 for you, and fully right in case you remember they are only wiring E4995.

Allow me to repeat, ING will wire E5000 - E5 = E4995 to Kasikorn.

In this case I do not know for sure what the additional costs will be at Kasikorn. I am not familiar with the exact rules they apply.

When ASSUMING the rules are the same, then the total costs for the receiver at Kasikorn will be B200 ( = E5 for ING) + B200 (the same for Kasikorn if the same rules apply) = B400 and of course we also need to take into consideration the costs of the currency exchange from E4995 to BHT at Kasikorn. So e.g. today you would receive approx. 198.414 BHT ( E4995 ) - 200 BHT (for Kasikorn) = 198.214 BHT into your Thai bank account. I don't know why but it feels quite good reading that.

Note: when you send B4000 the currency exchange needs to be done probably at ING because you instructed them to wire BHT.

Btw. I do remember a (short) period in time (forgot exactly when) during which I was not allowed by the Thai government to wire BHT but was forced to wire EUR (in my case) to Bangkok Bank. No need to worry about that again. The banking software is quite capable of handling such situations. When such a situation reoccurs again, ING will for sure popup an additional window telling you simply what other currencies still exist on our planet to keep the intended transfer of money going.

Sorry not to have cut off some of my [not quite irrelevant] thoughts. It is always good to have the intention to arouse not more suspicion but more questions.

So B400 you got is based on what? I do not understand.

Allow me to specify then. I payed B400 on a B4000 transfer when optioning Beneficiary Cost on ING. Kasikorn showed me B3600 was transferred into my account. ING showed me B4000 was wired with no extra costs. Where did the B400 go?

Somewhere B400 was charged as a fact. Can you explain this to me then?

This is what actually happened:

ING took 0.1% with a minimum of 5 euro, thus 5 euro = 200 BHT before NOT wiring B4000 BUT actually wiring B3800 to Kasikorn. Those 200 BHT are the costs the receiver has to pay to ING.

ING could have wired B4000, but then Kasikorn needs to wire the 200 BHT of the receiver back to ING. ING wired only B3800 so the additional wiring back of 200 BHT need not to happen. That's more efficient and reduces the costs.

Kasikorn also took their 200 BHT from the receiver (their costs; why should they take more or less money than ING ?) so Kasikorn showed you B3600 was transferred into your account.

ING showed you B4000 was wired without no extra costs implying Kasikorn took 400 BHT.

THIS IS ALSO TRUE, but 200 BHT of those 400 BHT were send back to ING.

Kasikorn took 200 BHT for wiring it back to ING (which did not need to happen in reality because ING did not wire B4000 but B3800) and Kasikorn took 200 BHT for themselves as cost.

The Kasikorn account shows B3800 - 200 BHT = B3600.

Here’s some info of one of the Dutch banks.

In case of Beneficiary Cost (“De ontvanger betaalt alle kosten”) the amount to be wired will be decreased with the Shared Costs (“Ieder betaalt de kosten van zijn eigen bank”) before actually wiring it and the receiver has to pay his part of the costs to its own bank. It’s quite clear. This Dutch bank already subtracts the amount the Thai receiver has to pay to them (Shared Costs, “0,1% van het bedrag (minimaal € 5, maximaal € 50”) before wiring money to the Thai bank. So, for this Dutch bank two of those three options mentioned are equal.

Obviously. How come you know this? So my dutch bank account doesn't get charged if i choose: receiver pays for the costs?

Right. Your dutch bank account doesn't get charged but you have to wire a little bit more money when the receiver expects and accepts nothing less than the specificed amount of money.

Read quote below.

In case of Beneficiary Cost you have to send the amount of money the receiver is expecting plus the Shared Cost! (because the Dutch Bank will remove the Shared Cost the receiver needs to pay). If you send the amount of money the receiver is expecting (s)he will not receive exactly that amount, but the expected amount minus the Shared Cost.

Currently € 5 is equal to approximately 200 BHT. Multiply it by 2 and we get the 400 BHT you mentioned earlier. The amount you've wired was less or equal to € 5000 (0.1 % of € 5000 equals € 5).

• "Bij een uitgaande Beneficiary ( = Beneficiary Cost ) opdracht wordt het tarief voor Shared Cost op het overgeschreven bedrag in mindering gebracht en moet tevens de begunstigde zijn/haar kosten aan de eigen bank betalen.
  
• Bij een uitgaande Our ( = Shared Cost ) opdracht ontvangt de begunstigde het volledige bedrag."
  

http://www.ing.nl/pa...ling/index.aspx

Copy the link into a textfile asap. Sorry, the link may or may not be deleted by thaivisa.

Here’s some info of one of the Dutch banks.

In case of Beneficiary Cost (“De ontvanger betaalt alle kosten”) the amount to be wired will be decreased with the Shared Costs (“Ieder betaalt de kosten van zijn eigen bank”) before actually wiring it and the receiver has to pay his part of the costs to its own bank. It’s quite clear. This Dutch bank already subtracts the amount the Thai receiver has to pay to them (Shared Costs, “0,1% van het bedrag (minimaal € 5, maximaal € 50”) before wiring money to the Thai bank. So, for this Dutch bank two of those three options mentioned are equal.

Who deemed that these behaviors are the "right" behaviors for children? IMO let children be children.

Kids deserve to sit first class (in the front row) especially when adults place themselves in front of them and start blocking their view.

Im hugely embarrassed to admit it, but the last time I brought GBP10,000 into the country I managed to lose THB 100,000 of it to theft*. That made a bit of a dent in my cash conversion rate

I would never bring large amounts of cash into Thailand again just to gain a bit of margin.

* and I'm far too embarrassed to tell you the circumstances. And this is a genuine, not a made up response - the loss happened last week

Did something similar a few years ago - but was 10* more in Euros. Didn't feel at all safe carrying that much cash with me. Although I got here without "loosing" a single Euro, I really don't think I would do it again. I didn't feel good carrying that much cash on me. Was just lucky that I got it all here without arising any suspicions. Won't do that again. I'd rather pay the bank fees, wait a few days and have it transferred directly and safely into my account.

While travelling to Thailand one of the Dutch customs sniffer dogs trained for finding paper money at Schiphol airport scared the hell out of me. I was carrying a relative large but not illegal (< 10.000 Euro) bundle of paper money and showed my fear for dogs. The Dutch customs sniffer dog method applied enables criminals (who simply keep their eyes focussed upon the actual behaviour of the sniffer dog) to spot potential victims carrying relative large amounts of money into Thailand. Better transfer money safely and directly into an account, and carry not more paper money than necessairy for immediate use.

Does Easeus support dynamic disks?

Personally I switched from Ghost to Acronis, not yet to EaseUs (free software) as Naam said to have done in post #18.

This is what I found related to dynamic disk/volume:

“EaseUS Todo Backup supports to backup and clone five types of dynamic volumes as well as file backup of dynamic disk.”

EaseUS Todo Backup Users Guide:

“You can clone all dynamic volumes in your computer to another basic disk with Disk clone feature. All dynamic volumes will be listed as one single Dynamic Disk, although they may actually be located on different dynamic disks. You can also clone a single dynamic volume to basic disk. In this case, both the used space and unallocated space on basic disk could be specified as the destination. The task can be finished with Partition clone.”

Don’t know whether or not EaseUS does MAIDs being quite an interesting concept to which I am not quite familiar either.

Well, it depends on what the user wants.

Skype profile mentions a caller ID which is accessible via option "view account."

Click "change number" for typing in a number which will be shown when you call phones.

In my case I've entered the number of my mobile phone.

Sufficient functionality for me. It's working fine and I did not have to pay for that.

A camera caught this car up northeast:

CAT's rolling out CAT Telecom Dropwire which is a wire containing multiple cores for communication purposes based upon electrons, not light. In the background, just above the middle of the car, you'll notice a white box hanging, having a yellow sticker, into which the cable has been connected to something. Is this one of the famous WiFi boxes current media are talking about ? Which kind(s) and speed(s) of internet to expect from CAT ?

TIA for answers.