You think shipping a tuba to australia is expensive!?!?

[Ken Herrick]

A good mate is a very good saddle maker. Back a few weeks ago he struck a problerm. Somebody wanted a saddle tree (frame) made out of plastic as the basis of his saddle. I'll cut out all the other crap BUT, The maker wanted to ship a 6.3 pound item out to here via UPS. Cost was several hundred $ US which converted to $750+ Aus $. The tree cost roughly $70.

I have imported tubas to here and had I had to pay that sort of rates could and wound not have done it.

It can be done at a reasonable cost - keeping in mind that the USA and AUS are half a world apart.

Thanks to my sister in law, who will receive a package then send via USPS mail to forward it it will be under $100.

Yep, it cost $$$ to bring things out here - either you want it and pay or forget it.

If somebody needs assistance here - I'm wiling to try to asist.

[windshieldbug]

Greyhound service to Oz is very spotty.

[Three Valves]

No "tracking"

[Heavy_Metal]

And their engines always get flooded..................