Perishable in that context has to be interpreted as fragile / breakable -- srs (blackberry)
-----Original Message----- From: Ashwin Kumar <ashwi...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:59:06 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Anyone going from Chennai/Bangalore to the US? On 29 November 2011 00:10, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan < chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Going against the grain here. I don't want to ship things from the US to > India, but send stuff from home to the US. > Food. More specifically, the rather brilliant Sri Krishna Sweet's Mysore > Pa, to a friend in San Diego. > The couriers/commercial carriers refused to ship perishable goods, and I > get conflicting answers from three different Govt. of India post offices. The new rule book of the Indian post offices state 'NO' to perishable items, which includes CDs, cameras (even mechanical), and a other such items which make no sense. ~ashwin