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I boxed up G.'s birthday box to send yesterday. Honestly, though, Canada Post is getting more and more expensive. It's utterly scandalous the prices they charge. The box I used is one i bought from them, but apparently it's too large to go parcel post. They insist now on sending it Express Post and it's not that big. Maybe the size of two shoeboxes though not that shape. It weighed a shade over 2kg which isn't particularly heavy. THey would send it by sea but that wouldn't get there until at least Christmas or later and his birthday is in a couple of weeks so i sucked it up and paid parcel post. I sent his gifts in the same box last year for Christmas and I'm pretty sure I didn't pay what i did yesterday. .... hmm i just went back and looked. And actually, it cost me more for his Christmas presents last year in the same box and it wouldn't have weighed that much more, I don't think. I shall have to remember though I won't have to worry about it much longer! I wrote last year that i'd remember for next time. Obviously not. The poor woman at the P. O.... she told me the cheapest price, by sea. Ok, no that's no good. Then she hesitated. She knew what the reaction was going to be. Poor thing, it's not her fault. She said she hates having to tell people the prices when it's high like that.

I plan to send him a couple of Amazon things for CHristmas and I can order them from the UK site and pay little or no shipping and he'll get it in days. There's one thing i have to post from here at least. I don't know what else to get him, and I may end up doing an Amazon gift card or cash because he needs to buy a couple of hard cases for two of his guitars so I can give him money towards one of those.

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