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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Try the M Bag. I use it to send stuff to my wife in Serbia. I don't know how much it costs now because I havn't sent anything for over a year. It certainly is cheaper than what you listed. The post office gives you the bag with a tag. The receiver keeps the bag. yrs, tom ault On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:50:56 -0400 "Cormack, Margaret Jean" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and >culture > > Tom's note provoques me to send out this message to US members of >this list. > While not a strictly medieval topic, it effects all of us who study >the middle ages and > who might like, at some time, to send books overseas. This includes >publishers, > anyone who sends books out for review, to their friends, etc. etc. >As I discovered when > I wanted to send a box of journals to myself for a research >project, the recent > changes in the US Mail service have COMPLETELY DONE AWAY WITH > overseas surface mail. You can still mail your packages at a >slightly > lower rate than airmail, but there's no point: this only means >surface mail within the US; > when the package reaches the coast, it will be put on plane, at the >cost of about $ 36 per ten pounds, > if I remember rightly. It takes about as long as sea-mail used to, >but costs 3-5 times as much. > The "book bag" which used to make scholarly life > a bit more affordable for those of us who occasionally migrate >across the atlantic no longer exists. > Write to your congressman - the postmaster general - > anyone you can think of! > Meg > > > > ________________________________ > >From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious >culture on behalf of Ryan, Thomas F. > Sent: Tue 26.6.2007 08:37 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [M-R] Journals > > > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and >culture > > I have numerous hardcopy issues of Speculum and the Journal of the >American Academy of Religion that I'd like to give away. Any >suggestions? > > Thanks, > Tom > > Thomas Ryan, PhD > Chair, Department of Religious Studies > St. Thomas University > 16401 NW 37th > Miami Gardens, FL. 33054 > Phone: 305-628-6648 >Fax: 305-628-6764 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write >to: > [log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write >to: > [log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html