General-Zoll-Tarif für die Ein- und Ausfuhr aller Waaren folgender europäischen Staaten: Oesterreich-Ungarn, Deutschland [usw.]

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Identifikator:: 834623471

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-30699

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Holzer, Franz

Title:: General-Zoll-Tarif für die Ein- und Ausfuhr aller Waaren folgender europäischen Staaten: Oesterreich-Ungarn, Deutschland [usw.]

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Spielhagen & Schurich

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: Online-Ressource

Collection:: Economics Books

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PACKING AND SHIPPING 329 were obtained it would mean that in future all goods bearing your particular shipping mark would be forever doomed to trouble. I am always forced to laugh when I think of the experience of a traveller for a well-known baking company in the United States who was making his initial trip to South America. The port at which he landed was, as it gen erally is, the scene of a yellow fever epidemic. Fearful of contracting this disease he decided to take the first train for the capital, located in the mountains and as a rule free from the scourge which infests the port. Inasmuch as the train left early, he deposited his twelve sample cases at the custom house with the keys and the request that after they had been in spected one of the men whom he had tipped should send them by the evening train to his hotel. After waiting for three days without receiving the trunks, during which time he fre quently sent telephonic messages to the cus toms authorities and telegraphed and wrote the United States consul on the subject, he de cided to go in person, despite his fear of con

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