If it's "released" in Honkong first, it'll cost an exorbitant EU import tax (including customs breaking the package open, charging for work doing so, on top of repackaging and then the hassle of getting my hands on it: they tend to send either the package or a note by "registered mail" , which leaves then two options:
- leave it in the postal office long enough to never get it, and then you're lucky if you didn't pay it in advance
OR
- try to get into the post office before closing time, wait until PO clerks themselves are "watching their watches for tyheir train", have a grumpy POC before you who doesn't "find" your package, but gives you a form to fill in, then cough up the money "customs" added to your package, then wait again to hear that it will be quicker to go -with said form + cash handed back- to the closest by customs office (which is closed by now) .........
If it's sent from USA or Canada: I risk the same scenario
If it's sent from BRITTAIN : I could be lucky, as customs won't interfere. But they'll NOT deliver it at home if the packaging extends one of three measures: thick > 5cm , wide > 25cm, long > 35 cm (as they "suppose" it willbe too long to shocve into the box before taking it on the tour)
Sometimes "dead tree editions" are just hard to get.
And then, I didn't re-read the LOTR for the third time (yet), so there's surely more important literature to go through before Hewlet Potter.
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