[Magdalen] Cheap US-UK shipping?

[Brian Reid]

If you prepare the shipping label and pay the postage with 
"Click-n-Ship" from usps.com, it will get the customs forms perfect 
every time. I used to try to fill them out by hand, and got guff from 
the postal employees, but now that it's done online, I've not heard a 
single peep.

It generates 3 pages. I always trim them down with scissors so that they 
will fit more easily into the Post Office's plastic pouch.

Go to usps.com, and then select "Click-N-Ship" under the "Mail & Ship" 
menu head. Open an account, and you're good to go.

On 5/22/17 8:09 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> Thank you, Brian, for this good advice. Indeed, I haven't found
> anything cheaper. Bought a new box today (needed more room for filler
> material) and will schlep it over to our terrible Post Office branch
> tomorrow. I think I can download a customs form and have that ready,
> which may help. Our P.O. branch staff usually seem delighted to be
> able to tell a customer they lack a piece of documentation or have
> done something wrong. I've experienced more heated arguments there
> than anywhere else. Or "Yes, you can apply for a passport here, but
> the passport lady is sick today, and our camera is broken, so not
> today..." I try to view the place as the set for a twisted sort of
> sitcom. And when I use the much closer UPS Store instead, I view the
> extra cost as a fee for not having to experience the P.O. branch. But
> in this case, the extra cost is too much, so I'll tough it out. :)
> 
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>> Nothing is cheaper than the USPS. If the recipient lives in a flat (um,
>> apartment) then using the post has the added advantage that the parcel will
>> be delivered at that end by the Royal Mail and not by a courier. T?he Royal
>> Mail is authorized to put parcels into mailboxes and mail slots, which
>> couriers are not.
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