TV in Ukraine

[stepanstas]

Kathy,

Yea, but i was just wondering if it may be cheaper to ship.

Thanks though.

BTW, the UK does not have Europes voltage, its 240

[peteb]

thanks for your info! the equipment i want to take with me would cost too much to buy again. thinking about it i think most of them say 220-240V so i guess it should be ok. cheers, /pete

[Serhii]

Originally Posted by stepanstas

Kathy,

Yea, but i was just wondering if it may be cheaper to ship.

Stepan,

Forget shipping . First - it will be very expensive , second - I am not sure your babusia receives anything. A few years ago a new phone was shipped to me. It didn’t come and won’t come ever…

I think summer is close again. Come to see your baba and buy / install her all equipment . Seems you have got money yet.

I am sure you just miss her/ Ukraine and write such funny posts here. No any money or goods from America ! We have all home.

[stepanstas]

Serhii,

I know what you mean, and i guess you are right. I don't think I will visit Ukraine this summer because of college, but maybe ill have my mom buy it since she is going.

You started a great point. Countless times my father has sent greeting cards (with no money inside) and they never get there. I guess since they feel something hard.

Too bad Ukraine does not have tracking.

BTW, its not too safe with Airlines either. I was comming back from Ukraine and we had a blast. So exited. So we get all are bags (in USA) and all but one are there. So we wait for like 10 min and the guy comes along asking if we lost bagage. We told him yes and told him all the details. He said, "Yea, for some reason we always have something missing from Ukraine." It did arive the next business day, but its the fact that counts. Maybe they hold on to it and if nobody claims it, they keep it.

[Kathy]

I know an woman who is now in her late eighties, who remembered churches being destroyed and how she was forbidden to speak Ukrainian in her village during Stalin's times. She was taken as a slave labourer to Germany and eventually moved here.

This woman, now widowed with no children, decided to send money and goods to Ukrainian orphanages. Nothing arrived, she learned, when she wrote the orphanage. I investigated this for her, and the problem was not in Ukraine, but here. The owner of the shipping company was basically taking the cash and not delivering the goods to Ukraine. I know this is the case, despite the owner's protestations, because the she could not provide a log indicating the goods were sent to Ukraine.

How low is it to steal from orphans???

[stepanstas]

Kathy, thats a good example, but it could have been avoided. She should have used a company with good standing to transfer the money / goods.

Also, though i should mention. It makes sence why he would just take the money and not deliver the product. Since Ukraine does not really track pakaging, very little can be done when an item is lost.

[andrewblow]

Hi peteB,
I took our UK guitar amps, keyboard, guitars, radio mikes, etc., to Ukraine back from 1996 to 2002 and everything worked fine......whilst the juice was on. !!
We were lucky to get through an evening event without at least one - 10 minutes blackout - but work - YES.

Andrew