On mail and other excitement

Just thought I would let y'all know my mailing address in Jerusalem:

Ruth Page
Jerusalem University College
P.O. Box 1276, Mt. Zion
91012 Jerusalem, Israel

These are JUC's mailing instructions:

Regular international post office mail is often erratic. A letter mailed to or from the US should take only 7 or 8 days for delivery, but it can be much longer than that. As an example, an Express Mail package mailed in mid-December from Tennessee to one of our students arrived here just in time for an April Christmas. While this is obviously not the norm, it happens frequently enough to not cause too much surprise. Stamps are sold on-campus, and mail is usually taken to and picked up from the post office 3 times a week. Remember: all packages received in Israel are subject to duty, although usually the duty is waived.

*** To minimize the chances of incurring duty, please instruct those mailing packages to you to list the contents of the package on the customs tag with the notation “no commercial value” and, if possible, the notation “used items.” All new packaging and price tags should be removed from the items that are included in the package. It is also helpful to keep the size of the package as small as possible. ***

Generally, you will need to pay duty on electrical, computer, video and DVD items received by mail. Know as well that any and all chocolate items or the like may have to be passed around to your classmates!



I will also be bringing an international cell phone with me--go ahead and call if you feel so led, but we were having trouble receiving calls on this phone in Europe. We'll see how that goes. From the US, you would dial +011 44 7924 009 958.

I still have tons to do--ciao!