Beachey Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 ?One question on P3 packet, does the EMS label you send with GUZ as the sender and the Chinese beneficiary as the receipient need to be prepaid or does GUZ pay for the postage. Link to comment
Beachey Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Thanks, when I just went over the mailing instructions with my wife she told me the same thing. The reason I got confused was we have EMS labels at work and I thought they were just like FedEx labels where you have to either pay cash or put in an account number. I didn't realize they were all prepaid. Link to comment
chilton747 Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Thanks, when I just went over the mailing instructions with my wife she told me the same thing. The reason I got confused was we have EMS labels at work and I thought they were just like FedEx labels where you have to either pay cash or put in an account number. I didn't realize they were all prepaid. My wife went to the China Post and bought the label. She filled out her address in the recipient area. Link to comment
Beachey Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Filling out the label in Chinese is definiitely my wife's job. Link to comment
David11 Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 If this is an issue of semantics rather than incorrect information then I apologize, but based on the original question of prepaid postage the replies are misleading/incorrect. EMS labels (as well as EMS envelopes) in China need to be 'bought' and cost 1RMB each, but I would definitely use the term 'bought' and not 'prepaid' there because they are just address labels and have no postage value. Postage is paid for at the time you send your EMS and in this case the postage for P4 is paid for by GUZ (how would anyone know how heavy the P4 envelope will be and how much postage to buy?). Your wife will have paid 1RMB to purchase the address label that she returns with the P3 documents, but not bought prepaid postage. Link to comment
Beachey Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 If this is an issue of semantics rather than incorrect information then I apologize, but based on the original question of prepaid postage the replies are misleading/incorrect. EMS labels (as well as EMS envelopes) in China need to be 'bought' and cost 1RMB each, but I would definitely use the term 'bought' and not 'prepaid' there because they are just address labels and have no postage value. Postage is paid for at the time you send your EMS and in this case the postage for P4 is paid for by GUZ (how would anyone know how heavy the P4 envelope will be and how much postage to buy?). Your wife will have paid 1RMB to purchase the address label that she returns with the P3 documents, but not bought prepaid postage. Actually this really helps, this is just goofy enough of a system that it makes perfect sense the Chinese came up with it. When I first came to China, another expat told me. "It is doesn't make sense, don't worry everything is perfectly normal; when things start making sense is when you should start worrying." Link to comment
chilton747 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Actually this really helps, this is just goofy enough of a system that it makes perfect sense the Chinese came up with it. When I first came to China, another expat told me. "It is doesn't make sense, don't worry everything is perfectly normal; when things start making sense is when you should start worrying." Ain't that the truth!! Link to comment
screamneagle Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I don't think that this only applies in China. There's a lot of that going around here in Washington, DC! Link to comment
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