Request for help with postage

[cambrook]

I want to buy a Laskey 28He, the best price I've found is $115 (including shipping in the US) at Tuba Exchange. However, they want to charge $220 to ship 2 mouthpieces to Australia. I asked them to please use USPS but they said:

We are not set up to send international shipments via the U.S. Postal Service, ... I might suggest that if you have a family member, friend or acquaintance here in the U.S., we could ship them the mouthpiece and they could send it to you via the post office.

Would a fellow Tubenetter be willing to receive a parcel from TE, and then post it to me? Of course I will pay the costs plus something for your time, Paypal is probably the easiest way - if that's OK for you.

Thanks in advance,

Cam

cambrook at oztralia.com

[lgb&dtuba]

Not sure I understand why they would take that stand on shipping. Or charge you so much. By the USPS online calculator it should only be about $30-$40 to ship a 3 pound package to Australia. How much to those mouthpieces weigh anyway?

Are you sure you understood correctly $220 just for shipping? Above and beyond the price of 2 mouthpieces?

I might be able to assist you since I live in Durham, NC. And I know Vince. If you let him know via email (or whatever) that I'm going to be assisting you in this I can call him and get the straight info on what is going on. Maybe there's a custom's issue here.

As far as how we handle this, if he'll box it up (and he should certainly be willing to do that), then charge you his price plus what it actually costs at the USPS to ship it, and he agrees to reimburse me the postage I'll go pick it up and go to the post office for him if he can't have one of his staff do so.

Jim "Thinking there's more to this than meets the eye." Wagner

[MikeMason]

It sounds like Cam is trying the old Nigerian money laundering scam on us