From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 17 14:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15860 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (ts02-011.dublin.indigo.ie [194.125.134.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15666 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA01812; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:47:04 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199809172147.WAA01812@indigo.ie> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:47:03 +0000 In-Reply-To: <25283.906018720@time.cdrom.com>; "Jordan K. Hubbard" Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Files: The truth is out there X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promotional CDs and evil customs agencies. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sep 17, 12:52am, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } Subject: Promotional CDs and evil customs agencies. > [ I know that this is typically -chat material, but I'm not going to > reach the people who are actually involved by sending this to -chat ] > > I just thought I'd let folks know that I've reached a hard, but > irrevokable, decision with regard to sending promotional CDs overseas: > > I'm not going to do it anymore. I was talking to you about getting a promo CD for the Irish Times (you even said it was a good letter !!*%%#$^) so I take it thats off the cards now? What kind of volumes of promo CDs were you sending around? I would have never expected a couple of CDs getting much attention at customs, sheesh. > If you know of someone in the U.S. who is willing to deal with all > these issues for you or otherwise provide "trans-shipment" outside the > U.S., then that's obviously something else entirely and I'm perfectly > willing to do that. Sending CDs within the U.S. is not a problem. I might be interested in doing it for Europe depending on volume and the amount of hassle it is sending them to people. (I really can't see this being a problem, maybe its just US->EU thats causing difficulty) So, how many CDs are we talking a month/week on average? > It's > not just enough to have a distributor there, you need to have the CDs > *made* in europe in order to avoid customs problems. For sale or promo? Did you do to the customs people, you weren't a drug trafficker in a previous life or anything? Niall -- Niall Smart, rotel@indigo.ie. Amaze your friends and annoy your enemies: echo '#define if(x) if (!(x))' >> /usr/include/stdio.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message