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Varese2002 · 3 July 2009, 10:48 PM

Thanks Dan for the information. Interesting is the 'International Surface Air Lift' called by the US Postal Service 'Direct Sacks of Printed Matter to One Addressee (M–bags)' here. A direct sacks is defined as printed matter sent to a single foreign addressee at a single address, where there is an International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) M-bag.

Maximum weight of a sack: 66 pounds (including the tare weight of the sack).

Cost to the Europe - Netherlands (difficult see here).

Netherlands comes in price group 8. If you take ISAL M-bag Prices —

this is about the cost. So a good friend in the USA who collects your heavier books or loads of (old) magazines can ship via ISAL M-bag the whole lot in one go.

Thanks to the site of the US Mail Service and the hint of Dan about ISAL I have been able to figure this out, but it remains complex

Cheers

Kees

3 July 2009, 10:48 PM	#15 (permalink)
Varese2002 Forum Ace of Aces Contributor Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands Posts: 3,699	Thanks Dan for the information. Interesting is the 'International Surface Air Lift' called by the US Postal Service 'Direct Sacks of Printed Matter to One Addressee (M–bags)' here. A direct sacks is defined as printed matter sent to a single foreign addressee at a single address, where there is an International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) M-bag. Maximum weight of a sack: 66 pounds (including the tare weight of the sack). Cost to the Europe - Netherlands (difficult see here). Netherlands comes in price group 8. If you take ISAL M-bag Prices — this is about the cost. So a good friend in the USA who collects your heavier books or loads of (old) magazines can ship via ISAL M-bag the whole lot in one go. Thanks to the site of the US Mail Service and the hint of Dan about ISAL I have been able to figure this out, but it remains complex Cheers Kees __________________ I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges Last edited by Varese2002; 3 July 2009 at 10:57 PM.