[ARC5] Shipping T-22 to Australia

[john rose]

You just hit one of my favorite rants, mail from Detroit area (where I live and have a bunch of relatives) to Windsor which is due south, yes I said south, across the Detroit river about a mile or so (and a big bunch of relatives). Mail in Detroit is gathered together and put on a truck (!) for the journey across the bridge or tunnel. Once in the Windsor P.O., all the mail collected is gathered together and put on a truck (where have I heard this before?) and sent to Toronto (!) for sorting. Mail for Windsor is then put on a truck (sometimes I think they use dog sleds in winter) and sent back to Windsor. And for all this we pay airmail rates!! Service is generally 4 or 5 days.


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For whatever reason, the originating location within CONUS does not figure in to the postage charge.  It costs you the same amount to send a package to Windsor, ON from San Diego, CA as it does from Detroit, MI.  And it probably goes to Chicago, IL first in either case.  :-)

The $95 price assumed that you used the optimum size box and lightest practical packing materials.  The $123 price was with the box and weight that you listed, I think.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 08/20/2016 11:04:27 AM Central Daylight Time, k1uhy at comcast.net writes:
From: "Mark K3MSB" <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
To: "Jim Falls" <radio-tuber at att.net>
Cc: "ARC5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 9:03:37 AM
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Hi Jim



Thanks for your data point.  $123 From the east coast seem in line with $95 from California.



73 Mark K3MSB






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