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Ran into this phrase in an email from a British customer. My take is that it means items received or some such. Is this close? Am I all wet? Does it mean something totally else?
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Goods inward, surely? 'Inward' in the sense of 'coming in', and you'd also see this labelling an area like a loading bay. But 'good inwards' looks like a typing mistake. Or a curious re-segmentation by the writer.
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NicholasW: Goods inward, surely?... 'good inwards' looks like a typing mistake
He later used the phrase send all good & correspondence to that address.
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Just how British was your correspondent? That kind of error is generally associated with English as a second language ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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How British was he?
Without compromising anyone's privacy, his last name sounded almost as though he could have a cat that wangled him a lord high mayorship.
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Off topic, but intersting. I recently purchased an item off of ebay from a firm in the UK. In our email correspondence he thanked me for my custom. Loved that!
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NicholasW: Goods inward, surely?... 'good inwards' looks like a typing mistake
He later used the phrase send all good & correspondence to that address.
Speaking as one gifted in the black art of making typos, I know how easy it is to repeatedly make the same error. I have to agree with Nicholas that "good" is almost certainly meant to be "goods", in both instances. Was the correspondence handwritten? If not, I would assume that the author simply failed to notice the missing "s" - perhaps relying on a spell-checker, which would let "good" pass unchallenged.
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[Max lowed moronically Was the correspondence handwritten?A handwritten email - will wonders never cease?!  Sorry!
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Max Q apologizes: A handwritten email - will wonders never cease?!
With the adances in palm products it is here or close at hand (NPI)
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Even goods inward sounds odd to me. How would you use this?
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