[Ambassadors] APAC Shipping experience from Bangladesh

[Buddhike Kurera]

Hello Folks,

Following is one of the real examples to express how difficult
shipping is on our region. This comment has posted in related with F17
media (200 DVD) request from Bangladesh FAms.

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"Those DVD had arrived long ago, but the FedEx? guys didn't dropped
that package at my address. They gave me papers instead to collect it
from the government custom warehouse. I went there only to found that
I have to pay a huge amount (100 US$+) as some wired
surcharges/duties/fees. I told them these are free gifts and contain
no commercial value. They asked me to collect a NOC from BCC
(Bangladesh Computer Council - the Government's computer authority).
And my application to the BCC got no reply until now. After couple of
follow up over the phone, they replied, they've collected one DVD from
the customs warehouse to check the content and will issue me a NOC few
days later. I called four days later and freaked out, when hared that
no one knows about my application and asked me to apply again.

It seems, it would have been better to produce locally as I did
earlier for ​Fedora 14.

Anyway, I am closing the ticket. now."

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Found this when reviewing trac tickets, fedora-apac #36

Therefore till we have our next FUDcon please do ask for funds and
prepare our SWAG locally.

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Regards,
Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera (bckurera)