On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: > > If I needed one of those drives, I'd be willing to pay $1 / GB plus shipping > > and handling if they were known to be good. (If I needed them) I would buy > > them sight unseen if you ran SpinRite level 2 on the drives and said they > > passed. > > As a guideline, PostNL quote €18.20 (≈USD20.50) for its single grade of packet > post to "world". The 2kg weight limit is good for two or three typical 3.5" > hard disks of around 700g each. It's cheaper to the rest of Europe (and UK) > but > the 2kg limit remains for anywhere outside the Netherlands. For more than 2kg, > you're looking at expensive couriers and the price to the USA quickly rockets.
FYI, DHL has interesting flat-rate offers for consumers across at least some European countries, e.g. taking your example of shipping from the Netherlands to the UK the rates are €10.00/€15.00/€20.00/€26.00 for a chunky parcel of up to 2kg/5kg/10kg/20kg respectively. More details and other destinations at: <https://my.dhlparcel.nl/pwa/shipment/package>. For the US destination this does indeed look somewhat less attractive though. Please note DHL operates country-specific sites and offers vary between countries; look for "Document & Parcel Shipping". HTH, Maciej
