> > > 3. I request that you send me a free copy of the CD-ROM.
> >
> > That the problem, I would do that, the production of the CD
> > itself cost nearly nothing, BUT: I have to pay fees for the
> > software for each CD-Rom AND maily, a post to USA cost
> > aout DM 20, that's $ 16 !!!! And I can do that for about
> > 200 copies for contributors, sorry ...
>
> The price is going down. He quoted me $18. In any event, I am sure that
> a CD placed into a padded bag would be light enough to post at the
> normal rate. It doesn't have to be sent via express air mail. I have
> received CDs from the US like this without any harm.
Having some experience in sending CDs out of Germany into the wide world,
I can offer some figures for the cost of this. Postage in Germany is
quite high. A CD in a regular jewel box with a standard booklet weighs,
together with an air bubble mailer, about 135 gramms. Airmail into anything
outside of Europe means DM 16 of postage as a letter. DM 16 is currently
about $11.50 (and might soon go up to $16, if the finance market continues
like it does now). Non-airmail postage is half that price, but it needs
about 6 weeks instead of 1 week. Airmail from Germany to Europe costs basically
the same as surface mail from Germany to the world.
Compare this to US postage, where a CD airmailed to Germany costs $3.01,
at least until the recent postage increase (I don't know whether this increased
the international airmail costs as well). So we're talking about $3 against
$11+ for postage alone. Quite a difference.
Bye,
Uli
-- "Ein 32-Bit-Betriebssystem fuer uns?" - "Wozu? Wir haben doch zwei mit 16." [IBM ad promoting OS/2]
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