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I think my parents are keeping Australia Post in business with their Tim Tam "care" packages...

I do the same thing for a friend of mine in SF, I send him Tim Tams and Cherry Ripes quarterly!

Chocolate smugglers ahoy!

Not to impugn on your care packages, but if your friend wants such more often, there's a store in San Jose that sells them:

http://www.aussieproducts.com/contactus.asp

(They do mostly mail order it seems, but they have a storefront in SJ)

Oh, I know you can get timtams in the USA at several specialty stores, but its actually cheaper to just send them from Aus even when you factor in the high cost of shipping.

To illustrate. A 200g block of Cadbury Dairy Milk costs $8.95 US from that store, or $10 Aus. The same chocolate costs $3 Aus from pretty much anywhere in Australia.

When I ship a box of timtams at a time, the savings are considerable.

That's fantastic. I'm still trying to get my books sent over after two years . . .

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