[il-talk] Help?

[Edwin]

Thanks
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Help?


> As for the Free Matter Program, my experience is that it works for most
> countries, but you are supposed to be sending either Braille materials or 
> 4-track
> cassettes, or in the alternative, you are or represent a nonprofit
> organization or government agency sending educational or academic 
> materials to a  blind
> recipient.  There needs to be at least one Braille aspect of the  package,
> even if it is labels on the cassettes or a cover letter of sorts in 
> Braille.
> The NLS, for example, regularly sends Talking Books to students  who study
> abroad, and the NFB sends information and materials to international 
> members Free
> Matter.  You'll need to check with your post office to see  which 
> countries
> do not possess an international mailing agreement with the  U.S.  I 
> believe New
> Zealand, as Debbie said, and a few of the former USSR  countries are among
> them.
>
> The other option, of course, is to just send them on and stamp the package
> Free matter and hope it works.  Since you're sending Free Matter, your 
> items
> won't be signature upon receipt or unsured anyway.  If it doesn't  work, 
> you'll
> get the package back, provided you put a return address on  it.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Yours,
> Ronza
>
>
>
> In a message dated 11/7/2008 4:58:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> dkent5817 at worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is a great surprise to me - and a jolt, since I  regularly send used
> magazines to people  overseas.
>
> Debbie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:  "Robert A. Hansen" <roberthansen1970 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of Illinois  Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008  1:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [il-talk] Help?
>
>
>> Edwin.  Look for  the Guild For The Blind.  Go to their website.  Look
>> under  Guild Briefs.  You will find the answer.  The changes are stated
>> there.  You cannot send free matter internationally.  If  you were a
>> newsline user, you would have called and found out.   USE NEWSLINE!!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Mr.  H
>>
>>
>>
>> Edwin wrote:
>>> Can I send someone  some audio books in Switzerland, free matter for the
>>>  blind?
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