Do the Customs makes you pay for Ubuntu Shipit??

[Zonkle]

Hi,

The Ubuntu shipit package arrived to my country, but I had to do a lot of paper working with government from customs and supervision :? ..!

At the end they told me that I have to pay $1 per CD :?. They wanted me to pay more be I kept on telling them these CD's are free and stuff like that .... and they kept on telling me they are trying to protect the CDs from being copied and stuff like that!

So did you guys pay to receive your Ubuntu package?

The weird thing is that I ordered 55 CDs, but the guy told me there are 110 CDs!!
Is it possible to send more than I requested?

55 CDs requested in 2005-10-20. 55 CDs approved and sent to the shipping company in 2005-10-26.

So I will be paying like ~$100!! .... so I'm not very sure if I want to pay that. But I guess I will.

Cya ;)

[canadianwriterman]

In some countries, customs fees for the CDs are unavoidable. Here in Canada, a number of people have been charged customs fees, depending on how many CDs are shipped. It's definitely not a problem with Canonical or ShitIt... it's up to the individual country.

[Iandefor]

If you order "1" CD, you're actually getting an installation disk and a Live CD,
so it actually comes out to two discs. Multiply the number of CD's you order (55) by the actual number of CD's they're sending per disc ordered, and you get 110. Sorry to hear that Customs in your country is so tightassed. As far as I know, it comes down entirely to the country you happen to be living in.
I live in the US, and no charge came through for my CD's.

[ubuntu27]

Hi,

The Ubuntu shipit package arrived to my country, but I had to do a lot of paper working with government from customs and supervision :? ..!

At the end they told me that I have to pay $1 per CD :?. They wanted me to pay more be I kept on telling them these CD's are free and stuff like that .... and they kept on telling me they are trying to protect the CDs from being copied and stuff like that!

So did you guys pay to receive your Ubuntu package?

The weird thing is that I ordered 55 CDs, but the guy told me there are 110 CDs!!
Is it possible to send more than I requested?

55 CDs requested in 2005-10-20. 55 CDs approved and sent to the shipping company in 2005-10-26.

So I will be paying like ~$100!! .... so I'm not very sure if I want to pay that. But I guess I will.

Cya ;)
I live in the USA, and I've never had to pay for the CD that ShipIt sends...
wow.. what a misfortune... Either they are ignorant or they have a stricter law...

[Zonkle]

Thank you guys for your replies.

And I think you are right .. 55 * 2(Live + Installation) :)

I think I will pay the money .... *sighs*

I really want people here to know more about this.

What I want to do is to help almost each one to setup .... but I want what extras do you guys add for the ppl you help to install? like MPlayer and codecs and stuff...and what about the source list?? btw, where do I get updated version of that :)?

Thanks.

[Iandefor]

I live in the USA, and I've never had to pay for the CD that ShipIt sends...
That's because Shipit sends from the US; they cover the costs of producing and shipping the CD, but duties and fines imposed by a foreign country's government (Syria, in this example) are beyond their control. There's no practical way they could pay for duties/tariffs/fines/etc that a certain country
imposes, in addition to paying the costs of making and sending the CD. As fair as I can recall, this has been covered elsewhere.

Zonkle: I don't really do installs for other people, but here's my sources.list:


#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse One thing I might recommend for getting Ubuntu up and multimedia-ready quickly would be EasyUbuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=86). I usually also install a bit of eye-candy, like gdesklets (http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/), but if it's on older hardware,
I'd suggest leaving that out.

[Zonkle]

Thanks Iandefor.

Actually I've just knew that the package came from Holand :) ... I love Holand :D
I didn't go to the post office .. actually it was my dad :) ....
They are making me pay not because of sending costs or whatever ..... my dad told me that they told him that is because of just customs :D ... like for each CD there is $1 ..... I dunno if there is actually a rule about this here yet ..... but I know that they are actually trying to protect intellectual rights like not copying stuff .... but I think the guy who is incharge of this doesn't understand what is open source... and my dad tried to make him understand .....

My dad told me the CDs looks really great, and he told me that "They are really nice and great people", he meant the people behind Shipit and Ubuntu :D ... I told him it is Canadian company ..... he really liked it .... my dad barely uses computer (actually used it twice or so :? ) ... I told him before about the story of open source and how there are different OSs other than Microsoft.

So I will go tomorrow pay the money and get the CDs before they get stolen :?!

Cya ;)

[Brunellus]

Canonical isn't canadian. They're British (Isle of Man, UK)

[peterbrowne]

Canonical isn't canadian. They're British (Isle of Man, UK)
canada used to be a british colony, so it's close enough ;)