[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Jeroen wrote:
> <<I am not happy. _Kiln People_ will be published in January 2002, and will
>
> probably be hardcover. Add a year till the paperback version comes out, and
>
> several more months before the paperback edition will be for sale in Europe,
>
> and it will probably be close to XMas 2003 before I will get my copy...>>
>
> Jeroen,
>
> I think you could probably ask any intrepid American Brin-L'er to ship you a
> copy after January. (I'll volunteer if no one else will.) :)
>
> The faster you want it, the more money it will cost, but I'm sure there are
> less expensive global shipping options than the ones provided by Amazon.
>
> For instance, I'm unsure if fourth-class mail is available internationally,
> but domestically it's a great way to ship books. You hand your package to
> the post office and they attach them to a tree sloth. The sloth is handed a
> map (and in your case, flippers too, because it would need to swim.) :)
> (j/k: 4th-class mail can take a couple of months to arrive, but it's still
> the most inexpensive way to ship hardcovers.)
I don't think 4th class per se is available. The two basic options I
know of are air (which is more expensive; IIRC, it took about $8 to send
a $7 paperback to Australia, but I could be off, and it might have been
a mere $6) and surface, which means crossing the ocean via ship. The
surface option takes a lot longer for sending stuff to Australia. I'm
not sure how long it would take to get to The Netherlands; if I go to
the post office to get a couple more rolls of stamps sometime soon, and
I think to ask, I might be able to find that out. Or there might be
something at usps.com.
OK, there *is* something helpful at usps.com; it would take 4-6 weeks by
surface. That sure beats waiting until 2003! :)
> I shipped my cousin's library to her a box at a time when she moved to
> California a few years back. And my fiance has used it for her job. Very
> inexpensive.
It's extremely inexpensive to mail books around the US. A number of the
books that were in my mother's house in New Hampshire when I got married
ended up coming to Texas, a few at a time, shipped via USPS, book rate.
(The last ones were shipped November 1998, as a last act when I helped
her move out of that house to relocate to a different state.)
Julia
