"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 13/01/13 17:29, Mick wrote:
Hi all,
I have been collecting wedding photos from everyone in our
family I could as part of my family tree research.
At least with weddings a date can be found, unlike "Auntie's" tin of
good old photos with no names or dates on them :-)

I have made some albums up with 5 generations of wedding photos in
them and 72 photos in each album.
They are small and neat looking with general family information about
each family and were possible a later in life photo too, it shows us
aging!

I have four to post to Australia, (from the UK) I do not have any
special scales but on my kitchen scales the package weighs 2, 1/2
pound or 1.250 KG.

Are there different postal methods I could ask for?
Is all post Air mail now?

I do not begrudge the postal charge but just wondered if there are
options ?
Mick.IOW.

courier them. I will NOT be cheap.

Id guess at £15-£25 each

Royal Mail works fine.

I've just had a couple of quite large things, shooting sticks, that
I got from Britain to Australia sent that way and the price was
reasonable. My price isnt necessarily relevant to yours because
these shooting sticks are quite long and rather heavier than yours.

One came by surface mail and did take a month or two.

The other came by airmail and arrived much more quickly.
When I asked this one why he postage cost was so much
cheaper than some of the others were asking to send
shooting sticks, he said that he just used the mailing
thing that ebay provides and they didnt bother to
calculate it themselves at the post office.