Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/06

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Subject: [Leica] LUG book ordered for Australia
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat Jan 6 04:32:31 2007
References: <001501c73045$b678df80$65caa8c0@shulman> <0E0C1BA4-C6D9-474C-A5CE-DE3830BA24E3@ncable.net.au> <a2f8f4470701060252k4709895eh3e992a238e1b7499@mail.gmail.com>

UPS does the same in India - you find yourself paying a totally fictional
customs charge. Fedex or US mail are much better.
Cheers
Jayanand

On 1/6/07, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I will wait until you get them.
>
> UPS is a racket. Here in Sweden they charge you, one again, when they
> put it through customs (they charge about 20 USD for that pleasure)
> and once they do you that favor, you have to pay customs of course
> (25% of the postage costs + 25% of the cost of the book + 4% in
> customs). This doesn't happen with the traditional, reliable USPS. I
> wonder how the kick-back system works between UPS and clients?
>
> My son is going over to the states next week. I'll probably have him
> bring it back for me.
>
> It will be nice to see it once I get it in my hands. Blurb hasn't
> answered my request for support yet even though I got an upbeat snazzy
> letter (generated) explaining that that little snafu would be fixed i
> no time.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 1/6/07, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
> > G'day all,
> > the international LUG book issue seems to have been solved at least
> > for Ballarat. I have ordered books for Dan Geoff and I without
> > apparent issue. It was a LOT cheaper on the postage to go for 3
> > books, so anyone who can band together OS might find it worthwhile.
> > We reduced our postage from 63 dollars per book to 33 :-)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alastair
> >
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In reply to: Message from jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] Explanation please!)
Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] LUG book ordered for Australia)
Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] LUG book ordered for Australia)