Doesn't bode well for the 12" when 95% of the replies are about the up postal system and the rest about whats contained on the record.
Dont mind the flip side though I'm going to be in detroit end of march so ill try [pick it up when i'm out there.. On 12 Feb 2010, at 17:11, kent williams wrote: > I've had good luck with USPS internationally, including shipping CDs > to soviet union, when there was still such a thing. > > All bets are off shipping something to India, though. I tried > shipping something to my son a few months back when he was in > Kottayam, Kerala Province, and it was a comedy of errors -- overnight > shipping ended up taking weeks, the US express freight carrier not > knowing the local phone # for their India branch, the delivery guy > taking the package out and not finding the house*... in the end my son > took a rickshaw ride to a creepy industrial neighborhood to pick it up > from the shipper's office. > > *Apparently street names and numbers are a US/Northern European > innovation. In Kottayam, your address is your family's name and the > nearest post office. Express shippers, unlike the postmen who work a > particular neighborhood, don't have the location of every family's > house memorized. So unless your package is addressed to a business in > town, the delivery guy drives around the neighborhood asking random > people on the street if they know where so and so lives. > > Apparently shipping FROM India is an even bigger adventure, involving > hiring a tailor to sew your box into a canvas wrapper and seal the > seams with wax, and buying hundreds of small denomination stamps and > covering all surfaces of your box with them.
