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Re: ebay rant
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lugnet.market.auction
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Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:41:33 GMT
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"Lawrence Wilkes" <lawrence@thewilkesfamily.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
message news:GH6y40.4n6@lugnet.com...
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> "John Radtke" <jaradtke@mindspring.com> wrote in message • news:GH6sJo.H2B@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.market.auction, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
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> > > Why does it take two trips?
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> > > Dont the US post office have an on-line postal calculator?
> > > Enter the weight, desintation, method of shipment and voila the price.
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> > > regards
> > > lawrence
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> > Aye, there's the rub. To enter the weight you have to know the weight.
> > Most people don't have more than a bathroom scale at home.
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Even if you know the weight it can still be a crap shoot on international
packages. What one postal employee says is a "letter package" another may
say is a "parcel". I try to guess the correct term from the web but get it
wrong every now and then. One time the delta was an extra $10.
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| In lugnet.market.auction, Mike Walsh writes: <snip> (...) IMHO, thats silly. Weigh the package. Measure the dimensions. Go to ... (URL) Enter the weight and destination country. Check the package dimensions against what it lists out to the right. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.shipping)
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| (...) Shouldn't be a crap shoot in terms of package weight. Letter Post is up to 4 pounds, not insurable. Parcel post is insurable but usually cost prohibitive compared to Letter Post for small packages. The crap shoot is in the package *size*. Some (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| "John Radtke" <jaradtke@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GH6sJo.H2B@lugnet.com... (...) What? No one cooks in the USA? I already know the answer to that one - No. Guess you could take your lego to the resturant and ask them to weight it for (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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