RARA-AVIS: Tips on NOT schleping....
SYNEFROG@aol.com
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:03:17 EST
th idea of schleping books 'home' is quite silly...
go to any country where you want to buy books...buy them...then
go to the post
office and buy some of their folding boxes (or get any box for
that
matter...as long as you respect the shipping weight) and then
go to the
harware store and buy some large tape...put the books in the
box and....mail
them to yourself...please make sure that you write either
"books" and/or
"printed matter" on the box in big letters...then make sure the
post office
gives you the "books" or "printed Matter" rate which is
abominably low
it will take four to five weeks for your books to get home
(either way accross
the atlantic is abot the same)...but they always get there...i
am a living
testimony of that for close to 25 years between france and the
US...it ALWAYS
works...i just got today two more of the six boxes i mailed
myself to myself
from several places in france during my yearly vacation
there...it is very
cheap (the book rate) and you don't have to carry the damn
things...and you
might even sneak the old can of cassoulet inthe package...and
they would NEVER
know...
mind you i've done it from france, holland, belgium, italy and
uk to the us
and the reverse is also completely true since friends or family
in europe ask
me for books sometimes...even did it from Brazil to US the
times i was
there...
make sure you write books (in english) next to the language of
origin (Livres
for france, for example)
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