I was looking for a copy of the "2011 Australian Sky Guide", for part of a xmas present. Which means, in turn, that I want it before the end of next week. The local bookshops (two of them) don't have it in stock, and have had it on order for nearly 2 weeks without having any guarantees as to when it might arrive. So I started looking online at other possibilities. No bookshop on the eastern seaboard was prepared to guarantee it would arrive before Christmas, even including the distributor. So I ended up discovering it at Boffins Bookshop in Perth. Their website says "same day dispatch if ordered before 3pm AWST", so I thought that might be good enough. Gave them a call, and they reckoned if I ordered then, the book should arrive by the end of this week. Great! Put in an order. It was then approx 2:30pm Perth time, 5:30pm my time, **yesterday**.

The book arrived at around 11am this morning my time, making it about a 17 hour transit time between Perth and a smallish regional town in NSW. I'm very impressed, and I highly recommend their service!