{"id":146,"date":"2009-11-25T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T09:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-10-02T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T07:57:42","slug":"mailing-christmas-presents-overseas-and-to-remote-areas-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/mailing-christmas-presents-overseas-and-to-remote-areas-of-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailing Christmas presents overseas and to remote areas of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have nearly run out of the advance copies of the new book &#8216;Life as an Australian Horseman&#8217;; so anyone who is thinking of ordering one to be mailed to an address outside Australia should order ASAP to ensure delivery before Christmas. Normally it&#8217;s only 7-14 days by airmail to most places around the world, however worldwide customs clearance delays cause havoc with timely Christmas delivery, in December&#8217;s deluge of parcels. Parcels mailed late may not arrive to mid January or later.<\/p>\n<p>The ship carrying the main consignment of &#8216;Life as an Australian Horseman&#8217; is due in next week &#8211; I should be mailing out Australian orders from about December 8th. All Australian orders go by Express Post, which takes only a few days to reach most places in Australia &#8211; and only about a week to deliver to very remote areas. About 14 days before Christmas, orders for remote areas (i.e. with once-a-week mail delivery) are given priority, to help ensure pre-Christmas delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nearly run out of the advance copies of the new book &#8216;Life as an Australian Horseman&#8217;; so anyone who is thinking of ordering one to be mailed to an address outside Australia should order ASAP to ensure delivery before Christmas. Normally it&#8217;s only 7-14 days by airmail to most places around the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}