posted on November 17, 2004 03:12:49 PM new
You can tell them that as soon as they ratify the US constitution, you will ship there. Til then, they are out of luck!
posted on November 17, 2004 04:36:21 PM new
Sanmar, let me see a map of the continent QUICK! My son has a geography test tomorrow, and I'm afraid he didn't know that
If you include all states, make it simple and say USA. We refer to the "lower 48 states" for one shipping method, Alaska and Hawaii separately, and then Canada.
posted on November 17, 2004 04:50:28 PM new
I have fixed prices for shipping all items in all auctions to the US.
International buyers pay International fees.
Had a Canadian send the fixed fee for US.
After I refunded He backed out of Sale and stated: He thought Canada was the same as US not International.
posted on November 17, 2004 04:50:46 PM new
Cash...Don't pay any attention to those maps, they're all wrong. Hawaii is actually just off the coast of California. In fact, we can ship a package from California to Hawaii via FedEx GROUND, and the delivery time is only 4 days. It takes 5 days to get the same package to the East coast. I hear that road from San Diego to Honolulu is a long boring drive, though
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on November 17, 2004 04:58:42 PM new
the term is "contiguous" rather
than "continental".
"contiguous" has a more usual sense, narrower than "conterminous", that applies to areas that touch each other but not to areas that can be reached from each other only via an intervening chain of touching areas;
while Hawaii is not part of any continent, Alaska is clearly, like the contiguous states, part of North America, and excluding it from the "continental U.S." must be described as a misnomer.
posted on November 17, 2004 05:09:06 PM new
ok, let's try this one:
Continental United States: The 49 States (including Alaska, excluding Hawaii) located on the continent of North America, and the District of Columbia.
Conterminous United States: The 48 States and the District of Columbia, that is, the United States prior to January 3, 1959 (Alaska Statehood), which wholly filled an unbroken block of territory. This excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Please note that the official reference is by use of the term “conterminous”, however, many use the term “contiguous”, which is almost synonymous, and because that term is better known.
Y'know what bugs me sometimes? Why isn't Alaska considered part of "the continental United States"? Hawai'i I can understand - floating off by itself over there. But Alaska's all connected and everything. It *is* on the same continent. I wonder if Alaskans ever fret over that?
Yeah, "continental" isn't quite the right word to use. The sign of a good writer is one who uses "contiguous" instead.
Julie said this at 4:39 PM (PST) on Apr 9, 2002.
Contiguous is what it should be, no doubt.
adam said this at 5:48 PM (PST) on Apr 9, 2002.
Just reading through your archives and decided to comment on your Alaskan/Continental US theory. Alaska isn't part of the continental U.S., it is attached to continental Canada, hence the OUTCONUS label attached to the frozen state.
Love,
Mike
Your soon-to-be-21 year-old brother said this at 11:19 PM (PST) on Jul 3, 2002.
Yes we do fret over that, in fact I just won a tv on ebay and bid because they said they shipped to the "Continental United States". Guess what, not Alaska. And I don't care if we are connected to Canada, Canada is ALSO on the same CONTINENT. I can understand contiguous but yes, we fret over it (well it doesn't keep us up at night or anything but...)
Anna said this at 7:52 AM (PST) on Feb 19, 2003.
I live in Alaska and have always been bothered by the exclusion of AK from "Continental US". However, the distinction has nothing to do with geography...it is a legal fiction. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"The Continental United States or CONUS consists of the 48 contiguous states of the United States of America and the federal capital, the District of Columbia. This grouping is also referred to as the conterminous states or the contiguous states.
Hawai'i, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, is a non-continental state.
Although Alaska is geographically a continental state (sharing North America, but separated from the Lower 48 by Canada), legally it is considered a non-continental state. This rhetorical distinction originated in the Alaska Omnibus Act of 1959 in light of the state's admission into the Union and had to do with IRS legalities.
In Hawai‘i, the continental United States is typically referred to as "the mainland". In Alaska the continental United States is referred to as "the lower 48"."
PN said this at 10:33 AM (PST) on Oct 21, 2003.
"It is only with the heart one sees rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint Exupery
[ edited by glassgrl on Nov 17, 2004 05:17 PM ]
posted on November 18, 2004 03:09:59 PM new
True story. I was with a group of people, and states came up. Someone wanted to know what the 51st state was. Someone piped in that it was Cuba...I said there are only 50 states, Alaska was the last state admitted to the union in 1959 - They might be thinking of Puerto Rico (they were) but I assured them it was not a state.
This took place in a college class I was taking for fun, so these are college students...Scary! Though when I was an undergrad many years ago, I was about to start my final exam for the class at UCLA, and a girl in front of me turned around and asked me what the New Deal was. This was an upper division 20th Century US History class...The New Deal sort of defines the 20th Century, and she was for real...I didn't quite know what to say to her, I think I gave her a one sentence answer...I've always wondered how she did on that exam!
