COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

good mornooning cold dark room

well i have time to sleep on it... i have decided on hat number 2

Hat number 2 : 4 points.
Very exciting, i have 3 hats with four points.
Good morning, John.
Sorry, my hats seem to have taken over the voting from your t-shirts.
I'll get wifey to vote for them later, when she gets up.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning all.

I have hatched a cunning plan about T shirts this side of the Atlantic. I just need to contact t'forum manglement to see if it's a goer.

Watch this space... actually don't. Look out for one in a few pages time!

Good morning, Linda!
I hope 'this side of the Atlantic' includes Morocco.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I wonder how much international shipping is or even if it would make it to your mail box ?

Shipping light weight things to overseas members has cost as little as $40 and as much as $90.
If we had an overseas member who could distribute some shirts, then maybe the cost could be defrayed?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I also like hat #3 best.

Good morning, Ed. points to hat number 3 takes it into the lead!
Points for John's t-shirts ?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Good morning, Ed. points to hat number 3 takes it into the lead!
Points for John's t-shirts ?

Evolution.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Sorry. Good morning.
I'm itching like a dog again.
I was ripping out more carpet at home.

 

[JoesMum]

$30-$40 for a T-shirt only.
It's worth it to toss a few other things in the box as well..............

That's ridiculous. I've just been on the Royal Mail website and can post a T Shirt to the USA and Morocco for £5.10 (even before the £ slumped that would have been much less than US$10)

Having played with a few more countries... I would struggle to pay more than £6 for "International Standard" (airmail untracked) anywhere in the world.

Hence my cunning plan... if Josh and Yvonne agree.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

VERY fetching!!!

Hat 3 is the type of straw hat we poke ear holes in and use to keep the sun off the donkeys heads.
Hmmmmm.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Dad?

4 points for hat number 3 ?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

That's ridiculous. I've just been on the Royal Mail website and can post a T Shirt to the USA and Morocco for £5.10 (even before the £ slumped that would have been much less than US$10)

Having played with a few more countries... I would struggle to pay more than £6 for "International Standard" (airmail untracked) anywhere in the world.

Hence my cunning plan... if Josh and Yvonne agree.

Imagine that. The U.S.P.S. doesn't have competetive pricing.
I've mailed a lot of things to members world wide and I've never been close to $10.
The most expensive is sending to the middle east.
I've never sent anything as light as a shirt. But Johns package was the lightest and cheapest and still came in at over $40.
Good luck.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

$30-$40 for a T-shirt only.
It's worth it to toss a few other things in the box as well..............

Does seem a tad expensive.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Evolution.

4 points for t-shirt number 4.
Yes, I liked that one best.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

It might be important to note that EVERYTHING I've mailed was by U.S.P.S. and not U.P.S., Fedex, D.H.L. etc.
I wonder if I've been getting screwed?
I'll watch your progress and maybe learn something.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Does seem a tad expensive.

I've always though so too?
Do you recall about how much shipping was for the box you sent me? Was it inexpensive?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Does seem a tad expensive.

This was a guess. It seems like the shipping is only a little more with added weight. There seems to be a base shipping price per it's destination. Frankly, I always send packages the most economical way. No special handling or extra insurance...

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I've always though so too?
Do you recall about how much shipping was for the box you sent me? Was it inexpensive?

I don't remember.
But a bit over twenty of your dollars, I should imagine.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

It seems like whenever I get a package for say....Motorcycle parts from overseas that the postage isn't very expensive, but if I send anything that way from here, it is.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

This was a guess. It seems like the shipping is only a little more with added weight. There seems to be a base shipping price per it's destination. Frankly, I always send packages the most economical way. No special handling or extra insurance...

Me, too.
It takes a bit longer, but nothing's vanished in the 11 years I've posted from Morocco.
Lost a parcel just before we left the UK though.
And that was internal.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I don't remember.
But a bit over twenty of your dollars, I should imagine.

See? That's less than half of what yours cost. (Although your box was heavy and filled with poop.) I remember it was around $45. Six pound box.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It seems like whenever I get a package for say....Motorcycle parts from overseas that the postage isn't very expensive, but if I send anything that way from here, it is.

I understand some things in the USA are cheap and others not so.
Guess that's the same for all countries.
Most things here are relatively cheap compared to the US or Britain, but some luxury goods and books are stupid prices.