Anthere,
I am stationed in Naples, Italy on a US Navy base. I just ran over to our post office (USPS) and here are the shipping options to a standard address in Florida:
1) Maximum length + girth = 108 inches. Weight 70 pounds. If sent via Space Available price will be $25.43
2) Maximum length + girth = 130 inches. Weight 70 pounds. If sent normally $65.34 (this is considered oversize)
3) #2 + priority, $67.15
My base has a standard italian address available (we are connected to the international airport here) for possible shipping from France to here, so those prices would need to be checked (they SHOULD be minimal as well). I am also willing to pick up the USPS shipping charges as they are minimal (including insurance).
But, these servers could be huge =) Do you have the dimensions?
Brian
These prices are much more in tune with what I would have expected. So far the cheapest quote I have personally seen from France is roughly 500 Euros.
If there's some kind of huge discount for using USPS from a U.S. military base, we should pursue that.
But there's something that puzzles me. We have Evian water available here for a normal price, brought from France. So really, there has to be some cheaper shipping method available.
Brian, just speaking hypothetically, suppose we found that it's cheaper to send it to Germany first, and have a German go to a military base there and mail it. Is that possible? Or is the USPS only open to people with some official business there?
--Jimbo
--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com wrote:
These prices are much more in tune with what I would have expected. So far the cheapest quote I have personally seen from France is roughly 500 Euros.
Didn't we get a whole bunch of offers to mirror our content? I think this would be a golden opportunity to set up European squids. That should help reduce load on the Wikimedia server farm and shave some time off at least anon reads from Europe. But if the plan is to gut these machines for parts, then I can understand the need to ship them to Florida.
-- Daniel
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Daniel Mayer wrote:
Didn't we get a whole bunch of offers to mirror our content? I think this would be a golden opportunity to set up European squids. That should help reduce load on the Wikimedia server farm and shave some time off at least anon reads from Europe. But if the plan is to gut these machines for parts, then I can understand the need to ship them to Florida.
:-) You're a few days behind in the discussion.
We've decided to keep 3 machines in France to use as squids, and free hosting has been arranged.
We are accepting one server which looks to be quite useful in our existing cluster, and it will be shipped to Florida. We are currently seeking the most economical way to do that.
--Jimbo
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