[Sca-cooks] [OT][OOP] Pennsic Customs Question

[Huette von Ahrens]

My SO is coming to GWW next week and is taking AMTRAK.  It takes a bit longer than flying, but is
less physically stressful than driving 2000 miles.

He will be allowed two carry on bags free and three boxes [weighing about 50 lbs each] of check in
luggage free.  And for $10 a piece, he is allowed another three boxes of about 50 lbs each.  So
for the price of his train fare + $30 he can bring 300 lbs of stuff.

I don't know if that will translate to Pennsic, but it might be worth looking into for others.

Huette

--- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Huette replied to me with:
> > Ah, Stefan, Giano lives in Germany ... It would cost a fortune to
> > ship anything from there and
> > would take at least several weeks, to a month.  That is a big problem
> > for those living in Drachenwald.
> 
> Yes, I was aware that he lived somewhere in Europe. I believe I even  
> mentioned the possibility of his camping with the Drachenwald folks.
> 
> Yes, the shipping might be high. I don't know since I've never had to  
> ship things to/from Europe. But "high" compared to what?  I've sure  
> that it is cheaper to ship stuff than to carry it as excess baggage.
> 
> I didn't say I had THE solution. I just figured it might give him  
> some ideas to work with. The last few years the Pennsic folks haven't  
> been exactly advertising the fact that individuals could mail/ship  
> stuff to Pennsic. Probably because they don't want folks forwarding  
> their regular mail there and such. So, that possibility might not  
> even occur to him.
> 
> If there is a large spread in the shipping time for stuff from  
> Europe, he may have to arrange to ship it to an SCA person who could  
> bring it along with their stuff to Pennsic, since if something  
> arrives a week or two before Pennsic, I don't know if the Coopers  
> will hold it or send it back. Then again, before they started  
> allowing non-merchants to ship stuff to Pennsic, one year I shipped  
> my box UPS to the shipping office in Buttler? (the larger of the two  
> towns near Cooper's Lake, but not the closest) and they held it there  
> until I arranged to come by and pick it up. Unfortunately, the UPS  
> website only listed one hour a day that that station was open for  
> pickup, and they gave the wrong hour.
> 
> It has usually taken ten days or so to for my package to get from  
> Austin to Pennsic. Surprisingly, it seems to come back quicker than  
> it gets to Pennsic. Perhaps because I have sometimes put my dirty  
> clothes in the box to ship and used the resulting space in my luggage  
> for all the books I usually buy. :-) Federal Express is several days  
> faster than the ten days for USPS, and cheaper, but until I moved  
> they were on the other side of town, about 45 minutes away. Federal  
> Express also has better logging of the package so you can see how  
> close it is to Pennsic before you fly out.
> 
> I came across a number of surprises when I investigated how to get  
> things to Pennsic. One was that it would cost me as much to ship my  
> box by bus to Pittsburg as it would be to ship it as excess baggage  
> on the airline. And I would have to go to downtown Austin and  
> downtown Pittsburg to the bus stations to ship and retrieve it. Of  
> course that is not an option for Giano.
> 
> Shipping my ~50 lb. box to Pennsic is between $24 and $30 if I  
> remember correctly.
> 
> Even if Giano couldn't use all of the info I gave, I thought it might  
> be of use to others, such as those in the wilds of Montana :-) or the  
> West Coast, who might like to fly to Pennsic.
> 
> Stefan
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