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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Cost of Postage to USA
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:29:50 +0100
In-Reply-To: <032501bf9bfd$3a408000$129b42d8@donangus>


In message <032501bf9bfd$3a408000$>, D & K Angus
<> writes
>Hello
>
>>should be OK at 43p for about a week - but postage is supposed to be
>>going up soon, probably by 1p or even 2p, and no one seems to have told
>
>
>Not to contradict at all but most of the "letter" sized mail I receive from
>the UK which has been averaging one or two pieces per week have all carried
>a 64p stamp. I should add they have all been sent airmail also. The BPO
>service from the Gatwick area in Surrey to Vancouver is about 3 or 4 days.
>Wonderful service - far better than the CPO.
The enquirer was talking about two small sheets -which should go at min
weight - I weighed them and, natch, forgot the envelope weight. 2 and a
thin envelope just scrape by at 44 (43 was mistake) but a thick envelope
takes it just a smidgeon over.
The weights are 10gm 44p, 20 gm 64p, (all zones US,Can, Aus, NZ for
both); then up to 40 gm, 99p for US/Can and 1.06p for Aus Nz.
From here to 100 gm, it is much cheaper for genealogical papers to
send as a Small Packet for 1.09 US/Can or 1.15 Aus/NZ than a letter. It
is also cheaper (half the cost) to do it this way over 100gm.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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