That is our unaccompanied air freight shipping allowance. It gets shipped to NYC, where it gets palletized and combined with other faculty members shipments, and then shipped on to Cairo
I don’t know if that means it is 750lbs FULL STOP, or if that is all that AUC will pay for, and if we go over, we pay the difference.
AUC has an arrangement with the Egyptian government:
They sign a letter of guarantee that all the items we are shipping over air freight will be taken out of the country by us when we leave. That means that everything we ship in is duty free.
If, for any reason, an item does not get shipped out, we would have to pay a duty (which is oftern in excess of 100% of the value of the item).
Even if an item breaks, we have to ship it home, or pay the duty.
750 lbs. We both use a lot of books in our day to day jobs. We will have to get as many as possible on CD-ROM.
It will be interesting.