Portrait of Eric
12/02/2005
International Shipping
I'm getting more and more international orders and the thing is - there's only two possible postal custom forms to fill out. One is big and white. The other small and green. So everytime I go to drop off the package at the post office (usually after waiting on a long line) the clerk tells me I've filled out the wrong form.
I mean - it's a fifty/fifty chance. I should be right once in a while.
And I always get the same clerk who seems to have all the time in the world. So I had asked him last time which form was for which. He told me the white form was for larger packages. Also, to make it more complex - I do try to save the customer at the other end the VAT tax or whatever and I'll mark the thing gift or sample sometmes with a low price, unless they've been a pain and then I just let it fly and let 'em pay.
So just back from P.O. and of course - wrong form again. I used the green small form but marked it sample. Oh, he says - sample means you need the big white form.
Well, what are the exact dimensions that make it want the big white form?
He's not sure, but since it's maked sample and looks like a sample package - it gets the big white one. I'm going to fool them next time and fill out both forms ahead of time and when he tells me I've got the wrong one - I'm going to produce the other one - with a flourish - and give him that since I'm convinced that he's doing this to mess with my head.
OR - I should go and check out their online site which will probably guide me to using the right forms and print the postage and all that.
Compared to the P.O. experience - FEDEX is a dream. Okay, back to packaging. Just had to get that off my cluttered chest.
I mean - it's a fifty/fifty chance. I should be right once in a while.
And I always get the same clerk who seems to have all the time in the world. So I had asked him last time which form was for which. He told me the white form was for larger packages. Also, to make it more complex - I do try to save the customer at the other end the VAT tax or whatever and I'll mark the thing gift or sample sometmes with a low price, unless they've been a pain and then I just let it fly and let 'em pay.
So just back from P.O. and of course - wrong form again. I used the green small form but marked it sample. Oh, he says - sample means you need the big white form.
Well, what are the exact dimensions that make it want the big white form?
He's not sure, but since it's maked sample and looks like a sample package - it gets the big white one. I'm going to fool them next time and fill out both forms ahead of time and when he tells me I've got the wrong one - I'm going to produce the other one - with a flourish - and give him that since I'm convinced that he's doing this to mess with my head.
OR - I should go and check out their online site which will probably guide me to using the right forms and print the postage and all that.
Compared to the P.O. experience - FEDEX is a dream. Okay, back to packaging. Just had to get that off my cluttered chest.
Lava Fields
National Crater Park
I guess I'll become a nature photographer for a while. Too busy to do any new shooting. Somewhere near Flagstaff, sometime in the last century. I justed wanted to try something with the VueScan software and this jumped up and said, "Scan me."
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