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November 3rd, 2005

05:23 pm - Air Parcel to Switzerland
I mailed out an 8kg parcel on Monday and finally it's sitting on a plane to Switzerland now. Sending such a heavy parcel isn't cheap. The cost without discount was about $125. Yup, I got a 10% discount because of some brochure that was shoved under my door. The actual postage is $97.20 but because of the damn oil prices, I had to pay more for the fuel surcharge.

In addition, I got myself a speed ball free. You know the thing that u use to prop up your laptop to prevent heat accumulation? That's the one. I alawys thought that it is ludicrous to pay $15 bucks for a cheap piece of plastic but well, this time I got it free, so I don't mind having it haha..

Anyway, how can anyone send an 8kg parcel? There's a book inside that she asked me to send over because it works out to be much cheaper after factoring in the sending costs. I think the savings is about $30 - $40. In anycase, the heavier the parcel is, the cost per kg of sending drops. So, I decided to pack as much stuff as I can afford to.

There's alot of local snacks that one probably cannot find in Switzerland, as well as instant noodles and canned food (all local flavour of course). I'm a little concerned about the Swiss customs though. There's this line about restricting the import of fish and meat preparations. Can someone tell me what the hell does the line mean? It's like so vague. Well, I hope that the parcel will not meet any problems at the customs. I've got some canned meat and fish but well, it's canned, and they didn't say canned food not allowed.

Actually I didn't plan to send so much stuff. I actually bought some snacks that I packed into the box for myself but as I was packing, I thought that I could get them anytime so I shouldn't be keeping any for myself. So my week's supply of snacks went into the parcel as well. It wasn't a very good idea in the sense that it made me spend 20 minutes packing.

The 20 minutes was because I was kiam siap and want to save on the cost of the box. I bought the box one size smaller than intended because it seemed like it would fit. It did fit, after 20 minutes and at least 5 times of emptying and repacking. I hope the Swiss customs people don't open to inspect because they are going to have a torrid time packing the stuff back in. To the Swiss customs dudes, yeah, for your own sake, don't try.

Hope it gets to Basel soon. I think it'll be a real joy to be in a foreign land and receive a treasure chest of goodies. I'm contemplating sending another batch again 7 weeks from now but I'll see how it goes. I'm not sure that I can smuggle in things like bak kwa, since "fish and meat preparations" are restricted items.

By the way, just for your laughter, there was one thing I found highly amusing in the list of items prohibited to be sent by mail to Swizterland. The item was, radar detector.

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