Keith
Where do you get International Money Orders from in the UK now as the Post
Office have stopped doing them? I certainly find that sending small amounts
of cash is fine but recently had a bad experience with a recorded letter to
the US being opened and a $100 dollar bill being removed. And you can't
register mail to the US either. Western Union is an alternative I sometimes
use though not everybody likes it and it is fairly expensive.
Hilary
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>From: "Keith Berry" <k.berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Shipping costs ?
>Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2000, 1:15 am
>
> Ruediger Betzold wrote{
>> somehow off topic, but can anyone tell me please
>> how much it will cost to send some stuff from
>> the USA to my place (Berlin/Germany)
>> are there different possibilities ?
>> - land/sea (longest)
>> - by air (shortest)
>>
>> Any difference between postal service and united parcel service
>> does they include/exclude insurance - up to what value ?
>>
>> I think weight might be between 1 and 2 pounds (~1 kilogramm)
>>
>> to make it Oly related:
>> I might bid some flash cable stuff and/or lens from eBay and seller
>> is in the usa.
>
> As a new eBay bidder in the UK, these questions have been in my mind lately
> too. My first successful bid was yesterday (for an imitation Leitz table
> tripod and ballhead) and to make things complicated the seller doesn't seem
> to have, or want, a bank account so it looks as though I'll have to send
> cash - it's only $25.50.
>
> For postal charges see http://ircalc.usps.gov/Speed.asp - I haven't yet seen
> this site, its URL was given to me today by this seller. As far as I could
> tell, the last item sent to me by USPS Global Priority Mail took about three
> days from Texas, but sat in HM Customs for another four!
>
>> And for the last question: will there be any exchange charges for the
>> seller in sending him an international money order ?
>
> I have sent International MOs to the USA in the past and you just specify in
> US dollars the total amount the seller wants. He gets that amount while the
> buyer pays the exchange charges and an additional fee. I haven't had an
> opportunity to try it yet but BidPay (links to it on eBay) looks to be an
> easy way to send funds to the US (and some other parts of the world) if the
> seller accepts it. Some don't, and I wonder why not. Billpoint and PayPal
> are of no use to anyone outside the US at present.
>
> Regards,
> Keith Berry
> (Birmingham, England)
> k.berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.keithberry.telinco.co.uk
>
>
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