I finally got my strut tower brace which I ordered 50 years ago. (Okay, it was last monday, but still.) I couldn't find anyone who sold the part except the original manufacturer, which is based in Australia. (Free wallabe with every purchase, mate!) I still have no idea how much I paid for it, because the price was in Australian dollars.

Also in Australian dollars was the unknown additional amount which I paid to ship via "Courier" rather than "Post", which sounded slow and incompetent. I imagined that "courier" would mean FedEx or something, but it turned out to be TNT Express, which is by far the cruelest shipper I have ever worked with. Check out their temptress tracking system which taunted me all last week:

My bar was within 30 miles of me on Thursday, but I wouldn't get it for 5 more days. I could just see the driver getting within a couple of blocks of my house and then just saying "eh..." and driving back the way he came. Oh well. Perhaps they couldn't deliver it because they expended all of their energy by transporting the brace from Sydney to LA in negative 93 minutes.