Re: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Carol Adkinson
garage ... Carol -in Suffolk UK - Original Message - From: "Brenda Paternoster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lace" Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin

Re: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Brenda Paternoster
IIRC the books Jean bought were from USA but posted in Canada? I don't know if that bumped the price up or not. UK internal post has recently changed to size and weight instead of just weight, but international packages are still just priced according to weight. For most countries the maximum

Re: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Oops! my mistake. GBP21.06 is about USD42.3 - give or take a few cents. It's now more than two dollars to the pound. Benda On 29 Nov 2007, at 12:54, Marin Thomas wrote: There is no dot on USD. I gather GBP 21.06 would be USD 4.23. When I wanted to order a book in Italy and the cost of the

Re: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Malvary J Cole
Hi Jean and others - you can check out the rate that should have been charged for sending the parcel. You would need to weigh the books and estimate the weight of the packing but you would definitely get an idea of how much you should have been charged. You also have to take into account the

Re: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Sue Babbs
No GBP21.06 would be about USD 42.30. The exchange rate is just over $2 to £1 at present. I think US postage is more reasonable and can be checked at http://www.usps.com/ if you know the weight of the books etc. For instance a parcel weighing 1lb (pound) would cost $10.40 (USD) to send first

Re: [lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Marin Thomas
There is no dot on USD. I gather GBP 21.06 would be USD 4.23. When I wanted to order a book in Italy and the cost of the book was USD 20.00, I was told that it would cost me that much to mail it to me. Brenda Paternoster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wow, that's sounds even more expensive than

[lace] Postage costs - was Arachne pin badge

2007-11-29 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Wow, that's sounds even more expensive than sending from UK to USA! 10 threads books with the packaging usually weighs 2.040 Kg and costs GBP21.06 to send by airmail as printed papers, about USD423 I now look at worldwide items, but no longer buy from the US or Canada as I recently bought four