Replied: Tue, 18 Sep 90 07:40:11 EDT Replied: Jennifer.Kay@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU Return-Path: Received: from ius2.cs.cmu.edu by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa23371; 17 Sep 90 22:55:18 EDT Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 22:46-EDT From: Jennifer.Kay@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU To: bovik@CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Shipping books/papers overseas Message-Id: <653626006/jennie@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU> (Good luck finding a pigeon hole for this message. Anyway, I just gave this info to someone on a bboard, and thought you might be interested) I shipped a whole pile of books over to the UK last year and the post office turned out to have really decent rates. You have to go in and find someone there who you think actually knows all the funny postal rates. When I sent my books over there was a MINIMUM weight (I think, by the way, that books and papers can be sent this way). Anyway, ask them about sending a "mail sack" overseas. I've heard of people sending things to places other than the UK, although that was still within Europe. The mail sack is literally just that. They take your boxes and stick them into a big mail sack and then ship the whole thing to you. They even shipped the sack itself to me, although a beaten up USPS sack isn't all that useful. I think that this is a surface rate, so if you need your books fast, it's probably no good. I used this service in Sept 89 -- I don't know what it's status currently is. Good luck. -- Jennie