Chris explains: "I recently contacted HP support about a server that had two faulty memory modules. They agreed to replace the parts, and ordered them immediately. They arrived the very next day."

As Chris says, that's "nothing too outrageous in terms of packaging", but the two DIMMS arrived in separate delivery vans within a couple of hours of each other.

The first one came from Leeds, 193 miles away from Chris's office:

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