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In lugnet.market.auction, Mike Walsh writes:
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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.
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> Mike
IMHO, thats silly. Weigh the package. Measure the dimensions. Go to ...
<http://ircalc.usps.gov> Enter the weight and destination country. Check the
package dimensions against what it lists out to the right. Many (almost all) of
my packages go as 'Airmail Letter Post' (sometime with 'Global' in front of the
name). Print out the page from the screen and take it with you to the PO. If the
clerk gives you any problems, ask to speak to a supervisor. If they still
disagree, ask them to pull out the International Mail Manual (also know as the
IMM). Make them show you the place where it defines the weight limit and package
size dimensions to the destination country.
I had the same thing happen to me one time. The clerk insisted that the
dimensions for Airmail Letter Post were calculated as 'length plus girth', so my
package did not qualify. I made him look it up in the IMM (where is says
'length, height and width combined'). He was wrong (he then got pretty mad, but
thats another story). Point is, even the postal employess don't always have the
entire manuals memorized.
Ray
fut to .market.shipping
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| (...) Reread your own post... then tell me that all those extra steps don't make international shipping a pain in the butt. That's all some of us are saying. I do sell internationally but I understand why some sellers can't or won't be bothered. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| "Lawrence Wilkes" <lawrence@thewilkesf...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:GH6y40.4n6@lugnet.com... (...) news:GH6sJo.H2B@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Even if you know the weight it can still be a crap shoot on international packages. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.auction)
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