Shipping

I got all of my X'mas presents mailed off today. While we had it budgeted, it was still insanely painful to part with over $300 to ship stuff. Sadly, we still have to do our holiday cards so that will add to the total, but hopefully not too drastically.

We were able to ship the big box (11kg) of stuff to Texas via some budget air mail. That was about half the budget. We did that from Nagasaki after getting re-entry permits. We also bought boxes from there since the concept of a pack 'n mail doesn't exist over here. Lucky for us, we have lots of packing paper left over from the move.

When I went to ship those smaller boxes this afternoon, she told me I couldn't do it via SAL (the budget air). I don't know what the communication breakdown was, but I ended up sending the bigger and medium boxes via EMS - their express mail service. The small ones I think went normal air mail. That made the sum more than I expected. I wasn't happy, but I would have been less happy bringing them home and having to deal with it later.

Oh well, at least it's done!