[Milsurplus] now getting a bit OT... plus shipping to Hawaii

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

 Best regards to Captain Cook, if you happen to cross paths.
 Here in Santa Cruz County, CA. my next door neighbor did an extensive remodel a few years ago. After submitting the plans to the county offices for approval, they called him and asked if the railroad still went by his house. This was the old logging RR that went out shortly after the turn of the LAST century!
 Go figure! (well they do alot of smoking down town, and it aint tobacco).
               Jay






-----Original Message-----
From: WA5CAB <WA5CAB at cs.com>
To: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 3:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ... plus shipping to Hawaii


I've got one just about as good.  Some years ago a woman I know who runs a 
om-n-Pop mailbox and UPS drop-off shop called our PO to tell them she had 
n Express Mail package going to HI that needed to be picked up.  The USPS 
mployee asked her if she had all of the Customs forms completed.
In a message dated 6/17/2011 5:18:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
l4d21a at juno.com writes: 
 Since this topic refuses to die, let me stir the pot further.  This is 
 another example of the total failure of the US educational system.  My 
 brother-in-law worked for the gov't at at White Sands, NM for years.   He once 
> told me that he occasionally encountered resistance from vendors to shipping 
 sensitive equipment to him in a foreign country, new MEXICO, even if there 
 was a US operation there.  I seem to recall there was some other case of 
 the State Department classifying new MEXICO as a foreign country which 
 appeared in the news a few years back.  So, you are not the only one, Michael 
n 
 foreign HI.
 
 73,
 George
 W5VPQ
 
 <snip>
 >
 >* Peeve time: A couple years ago, someone had some T-47s he was parting 
 out
 >and offered up parts for them.  While an entire unit would have been far
 >preferable, I wanted the CFI &audio chasses, modulation transformer and
 >variometer from one for my own projects.  The response was that it was no
 >problem but now he would rather sell the entire chassis that had all that
 >on
 >it as a unit.  Okay, this isn't a problem and, yes, I know the shipping
 >would be steep but it's worth it to me.  Then he decided that he really
 >didn't want to ship "overseas" and deal with the paperwork and all.  What
 >paperwork?  Customs forms.  Yep, customs forms.  Let's not worry about 
 the
 >fact that an intact transmitter can be made to fit postal regulations for
 >domestic shipping which he also didn't believe (remove the CFI and audio
 >chasses to drop the weight and ship them separately), he wasn't going to
 >ship it to "a foreign country."
 >
 >Let me straighten a few things a out about shipping here to the real
 >sunshine state. (*evil gryn*)  First off, Hawaii has been a state since 
 16
 >August, 1959 - give or take a bit plus the attitudes of a few local 
 groups
 >who haven't figured out that neither the kingdom nor the republic exists
 >anymore.  With that, USPS parcel post and UPS &FedEx ground all come 
 here.
 >The same 70 pound weight limits apply.
Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
a5cab dot com (Web Store)
VPA 9480
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