I believe you cant send goods by surface out of the USA any more. www.petitiononline.com/USPSISM/petition.html A number of charities engaged in sending books overseas suddenly found that their transport costs were making it dificult to operate. All the best Larry Cuffe On Sunday, June 15, 2008, at 04:00PM, "Nicholas O. Lindan" <nolindan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >"Adrienne Moumin" <photowonder2010@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> I received an online price request from a potential collector ... >> For a piece costing about $200, UPS quoted me their LEAST >> expensive rate of $514.25, $112.10 of which is just for fuel!! > >Sounds cheaper to send it standby coach. > >Ship it unframed by airmail. An 11x14 photograph mailed to Europe >was around $5 by air. If you really want to get cheap you can >send it by surface mail. > >If it is a photograph I don't worry about damage - the >production cost for a print is nowhere near the print price, >so it is much more economical to ship cheap and uninsured and >to replace the print if it does get damaged. > >== >Nicholas O. Lindan >Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC >Cleveland, Ohio 44121 > >============================================================================================================= >To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your >account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) >and unsubscribe from there. > > ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.