Till two pounds you can still use "small packets". I tend to avoid "parcels"
due to longest journeys in Italian customs & parcels office.
Marco
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>From: Frank van Lindert <lindertv@xxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] OT: USPS International postage rates
>Date: Mer, 30 dic 1998 10:41
>
>I was told by a US seller of Olympus equipment that USPS have changed
>their services, and that it is no longer possible to send parcels to
>Europe by surface mail or by regular air mail (cheap air parcel post).
>The USPS international rate calculator on their website seems to
>confirm this.
>This would mean that the only way to ship equipment from the USA to
>Europe (at least all this applies for the Netherlands, where I live)
>is by using Global Priority Mail, which is far more expensive.
>Is there anyone knowledgeable around to confirm this? Paul van Tuyll
>perhaps, who often ships to our continent?
>If all this is true, it will be far less attractive to buy things from
>the US - not only photo equipment!
>For mail from Europe to the US nothing has changed: all three kinds of
>mail remain possible.
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