Re: Shipping Cost via UPS, DHL and USPostService and Customs brokers

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

" We will probably offer several alternatives, including mail if that is what
" the customer wishes. The problem is that mail has no tracing facility, so
" one of the tradeoffs for lower cost is a risk that the package gets lost. If
" a customer is willing to assume that risk we're happy to do it-- we don't
" get a piece of DHL's or UPS' action!
"
" K.
"
	Good.
	With US Postal Service there is not the us$40 brokerage
	fee to cross the borders that UPS does if you don't have
	your own customs broker. This would bring the us$15 CDrom
	up to $50 shipping and $40 brokerage: a 600 percent increase
	over the basic price.
	
	The local national Post Office just charges a us$3 fee
	and any relevant tarrifs or VATs. In most cases they waive
	all of it and deliver it straight to your door or mailbox.

					D. Say
" -----Original Message-----
" From: Daniel Say [mailto:say@xxxxxxxx]
" Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 12:43 PM
" To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
" Cc: say@xxxxxxxx
" Subject: Re: Shipping Cost for the Smartwords Beta Release
"
"
" " Yes, we will look at the international shipping charges and make sure they
" " are as low as possible. No-one has been charged anything at this point.
" "
" " K.
"
" 	Is the cost high because TTG insists on
" 	using United Parcel Service (UPS) rather
" 	than an ordinary airmailing via the U.S.
" 	Postal Service?
"
" 	UPS may be good business-to-business in
" 	the U.S., but it is pretty poor at delivering
" 	to homes (we work and are out), mailboxes (never)
" 	and non-U.S. countries (115 of them).
"
" 				Daniel Say
" 				say@xxxxxxxx CA=Canada, not Calif.