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From: steve.b@TQS.COM (Steve Berlin)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 12:37:06 PDT
Subject: Ask the Postman, Ask the Mailman...
To: love-hounds@uunet.uu.net
dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) nit-picks: >Mary Helen Sowell (mhs3c@darwin.clas.virginia.edu) wrote: >: The cost is $11.00 each, plus $4.00 for postage for 1-2 shirts >: within the United States. >OK, 2 shirts, priority mail ($2.90) plus mailer ($0.75) round to nearest >dollar - $4.00 - fine. >: For postage from other points on the globe: >: Place one shirt's postage two shirts' postage >: Canada $4.85 same >: Australia $10.70 $16.70 >: New Zealand, Finland $10.70 $16.70 >: Sweden $10.70 $16.70 >: Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands: $9.25 $14.25 >: This includes the cost of the envelope, tax, etc. >Ouch! How are you sending these shirts - letter rate? Are you using >the US Postal Service? Postal rates to all points outside North America are >the same, whether it be the UK, Slovenia, Botswana or Vanuatu. In my >experience you should be able to mail a t-shirt in a small jiffy bag for >under $5 including the cost of the bag and that's air mail, small packet >rate. Two shirts would go for probably less than $7 including the mailer. >How do you get $10.70 and $16.70? She got those rates from me (who got 'em from the USPS). It's air freight prices. Yeah, you can pay ground freight for the above-mentioned $4.85 for anywhere in the world, but it takes generally 2 - 3 months to get there as opposed to a week. Of course, this is taking into account an envelope that's NOT made out of tissue paper. (street price for decent envelope: $0.90 a pop + tax). I mailed the shirts. I saw the price. I can verify it. - Stev0 the experienced "Y'know, Bob, I'm feeling kinda disgruntled today." - The last thing you want to hear from a postal employee