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Posting Your Media

 

 

Posting from the UK

 

Pristine Audio has always operated using the postal service - as a UK company about 98% of our business arrived via the Post Office, either as 1st class mail, parcel post or Special Delivery. We also received a large amount of international work posted in the same way from Europe, North America and Australia. During this time we suffered no losses and no breakages.

Since our move to France we have been highly impressed with the French postal service. With one or two exceptions the average time for small packet airmail packages to arrive has been 2-3 days. For particularly valuable items we do recommend the Post Office's Airsure service, which is roughly equivilent to Special Delivery - a signed for service that's fully insured. That said, standard Airmail can prove equally swift and reliable.

We also recommend printing our address rather than using a handwritten envelope - this speeds the sorting process.

 

Posting from elsewhere

 

Clearly posting from within Metropolitan France should pose no difficulties. Residents of other countries should use their standard airmail service or international courier services, with users of the latter noting the comments above.

 

Courier deliveries

 

You will see from our address that there is no street name or building number - this is typical of small French villages where the postman is expected to know everyone by name. Clearly this is a possible handicap to international courier delivery firms, and we would recommend adding the following comments either in the delivery notes or as part of the address (not required for regular airmail):

"Rte. de Villefranche, en face de l'église. Tel. 05 53 82 18 57"

 

Packaging

 

Lightness and protection are the order of the day here. An innovative solution to posting 12" records where no tailor-made packaging is available is to obtain a suitably-sized pizza box, wrap the record(s) in bubble wrap and place inside the box. Parcel paper around the outside puts the finishing touches to this method, which can be adapted for other records, including 78s. For 78s see also the section here. Tapes are extremely robust and will not suffer any damage or loss of quality through x-ray machines at customs. Please don't hesitate to call or e-mail if you have any further queries on this matter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studio Rates and Payments to Pristine Audio Studio rates are charged at €50/hr (+VAT) to the nearest half-hour. We require a €50 deposit payment on all work undertaken - you can make payment below. This payment will be deducted from your final invoice. €50 is approximately GB£35 or US$65. Deposit Payment can be made by debit or credit card online, or by PayPal online. You may also pay a deposit by Sterling cheque (£35, payable to Pristine Audio) or French bank cheque (€50, payable to SARL Pristine Audio). This cheque must be included with your media, and must clear prior to our returning final work. Your final total will be calculated and invoiced to you for payment online, less your deposit, and including airmail shipping where appropriate - we will try to provide an estimate of your final bill prior to starting work. If at this stage you prefer not to proceed we will retain your deposit and return your media. VAT/TVA will be charged at 19.6% to all EU customers - please contact us with an EU VAT registration number if you have one; if so, your VAT will be zero-rated (for customers outside of France). There is no VAT/TVA charge for customers outside the EU.   To make a deposit payment, click here: Payment by credit/debit card or PayPal Please contact us before booking in any work!