{"id":3994,"date":"2005-12-13T19:03:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/lenovo-gets-busy.html"},"modified":"2005-12-13T19:03:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T19:03:55","slug":"lenovo-gets-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/lenovo-gets-busy.html","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Gets Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest change we see here at TMC due to the Lenovo acquisition of the IBM Computer Division is that ThinkPads sent for repair now go to China<\/place \/><\/country-region \/> and back. This has the unfortunate side effect in our case of leading to a missorted package and a laptop that was returned to us in malfunctioning condition. Here is the information provided recently by our shipper:<\/p>\n

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A PROCESSING ERROR AT DESTINATION CAUSED THIS DELAY;THE PACKAGE WAS MISSORTED AT THE HUB. IT HAS BEEN REROUTED TO THE CORRECT DESTINATION SITE <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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FORMAL EXPORT ENTRY REQUIRES ADDITIONAL CUSTOMS CLEARANCE PROCESSING TIME AT EXPORT LOCATION<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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THE SHIPMENT IS BEING HELD BY BROKERAGE FOR REASONS BEYOND UPS’ CONTROL <\/span><\/p>\n

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