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

[Micheal]

 Europe to US wonder if its the same as Canada to US.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huette von Ahrens" <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] [OT][OOP] Pennsic Customs Question


> 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
>> --------
>> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>>     Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
>> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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