People who won't sell me books
People who won't sell me books.
As a weak and sickly child, I soon developed a taste for reading. As a weak and sickly adult I still have it. What's worse, I have developed a taste for owning books; my attempts at shelving are little more than a doomed rear-guard action. Since I've been working full-time for nearly five years I've been able to gratify pretty much every passing book related whim. With the help of the advanced book-exchange and various flavours of Amazon the reach of my book-purchasing encircles the entire globe.
The entire globe? Well, no. There's one pesky outpost of intransigent book-deniers; the #!;@*!ing Swedes. They're just not having it - here are some of the diverse and picturesque ways the Swedish language has to tell me to go away, interspersed - for no good reason - with some pictures of unrelated things.
Vi levererar endast inom Sveriges gr�nser.
[ The church at Eastleach Martin. Not to be confused with Eastleach Turville, which is the same place. ]
Vi s�ljer endast inom Sverige.
[ John Keble, after whom my boyhood parish church was named. He once bought some herring at Eastleach Martin (or possibly Eastleach Turville). ]
Observera att vi i dagsl�get inte levererar utomlands.
Currently we can not deliver to addresses outside Sweden.
[ Tintern Abbey. The beige smear in the bottom left is me. ]
[ In the "country" field ]
Sverige (vi skickar enbart till kunder inom Sverige)
The situation with Wettergrens is unclear. By default the address form has "Sverige" in the "land" textbox. You could change it manually, but you'd be flying blind. Let's face it - it won't work.
There are many admirable things about Sweden, of course. But a secure
grasp of the concept of international post would appear not to be one
of them. Sigh!