From martin wood Sent Tue, Feb 23rd 1999, 15:44
i think the pound sign was sposed to be a dollar sign.... jus a little test.... £ $ £ $ (pound dollar pound dollar) Greg Clow wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Steve Taylor wrote: > > > > Got my first Forced Exposure Order Through Today... > > > Great CDs, only took 1.5 weeks, and cheap... > > > except UK customs slapped an extra 7.68UKP (£12.48) on top. > > First, a question... I thought UKP and that little symbol next to the 12 > (sorry, it's not on my keyboard) referred to the same thing. But you've > got two different values listed there. What's the story? Just curious. > > Anyhoo... I often have the same problem with stuff coming into Canada from > the US. So I suggest that you do what I do for future orders you place with > out-of-country businesses: request them to mark the package as promotional > material and declare it to have no value, or at least a low value like a > dollar a disc. > > Some places won't do this, but most smaller businesses (like s://kimo and > probably FE) will. > > Greg