Alas, perhaps my final word on shipping to the “nether regions”
(outside of the good ol’ U.S.of A. and especially to the U.K.)…
fur-gid aboud it. (Okay... "words".)
Unless it’s a very small and very lightweight package. Even that
however can sometimes prove near impossible or too costly.*
Just acquired a LaCie 2Big Quadra 6TB Hard Drive Array with
the original intent of shipping it to a forum member in the U.K..
This nine pound package, 5”x9”x10” via FedEx…$214.18 to $274.97.
AND via DHL… $230.92 (minus a 28% promo code) = $166.26.
Regular parcel post is undoubtedly, much less expensive.
Still, not cheap. And the aforementioned member has gracefully
and quite understandably, declined… and I now happily find myself
with more backup/storage space than I shall probably ever need.
(But, very very inexpensively.)
“Happier than Mr. Happy” perhaps yet again, here.
Point being (as so very aptly put by our UK Comrade)
“Truly, the macOS 9 clan are comrades, brothers
(and sisters) against a rising tide of corporate greed.”
Yet we’re all still up against the frustrations of trying to ship our
less-expensive goodies to others across the globe… thusly
and further attempting to perpetuate (not for profit) all-good-things
Mac... within our “circle”. Propagation of the “faith”.
Seller of the LaCie did mention that he has family in Wales and
that they rarely ship anything “across the pond”. Instead, they
transfer items back and forth via luggage… when family members
visit between countries.
I do hereby surrender my overt quest via normal shipping routes,
of anything other than very small items… excepting perhaps even
*a simple G5 power cord to Jubadub in South America. Most of us
would love to share, it’s just not economically feasible for y’all…
nor for us. AND I thoroughly despise this fact.
Perhaps the day of individually & privately owned, GPS enabled,
long distance drones for such future covert deliveries across
distant borders may soon come?
…”to sleep, perchance to dream”.
(A SCSI port installed into my skull, long before "Johnny Mnemonic".)