Re: [Rollei] GX for a reasonable price...

[Emilio Perea <eperea >]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:51:13PM -0400, Bob Shell wrote:
> I got this message three times.  Anyone else getting multiple posts?

I also got it three times, but don't see any other duplicates today.

> On Wednesday, June 30, 2004, at 12:48  PM, Laurence Cuffe wrote:
> 
> >On 30 Jun 2004 at 8:51, Austin Franklin wrote:
> >
> >>Bob,
> >>
> >>>It's no big deal to ship cameras to most places in Europe...
> >>
> >>And...in the same breath...
> >>
> >>>The USPS has a complex mix of regulations
> >>>and services depending on where you are sending an item.
> >>
> >>Exactly.  That's one reason why it certainly is more work to send an 
> >>item
> >>overseas.
> >>Austin
> >The US postal service has, I think, also managed to cut itself off 
> >from a number of members of the international postal union.  When I 
> >get a shipment from america via the us postal service it get landed in 
> >germany, vat is paid at point of entry, for a percentage of the cost, 
> >and the parcell is handed to a private courier company "GLS logistics" 
> >who charge me a handling fee for paying the vat and then try to 
> >deliver it in Ireland.  I live in the country so its probably not very 
> >economical for them to deliver to
> >me and so they have on at least one occasion decided that I was not 
> >home and returned the parcel to sender.
> >The us postal service used to be the preferred method for me, now I
> >find myself passing over US ebay gear so as to avoid the problems
> >associated with shipping from a *rd world country.
> >All the best
> >Larry
> >
> 

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