Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >