Overseas shipping - sending pictures internationally
[SteveP]
The Lordprice Collection is a British operation (the name and dot-co-dot-uk are a bit of a giveaway) and proud of it, but what’s perhaps not widely enough appreciated is that Lordprice uses modern technology to supply pictures and images from its unique collection around the world. It’s not very British to blow one’s own trumpet, but we can at least let the world know we have a trumpet to blow.
What prompted this thought was an order for a framed picture we got earlier this week from Canada.
We have two main examples of overseas transactions. We have licensed pictures for publications in the United States, New Zealand and Japan. That means sending a high-resolution image suitable for publication by email or, less often, on CD. Straightforward.
For physical distribution of framed pictures the coverage and quality of modern courier networks mean that Lordprice can ship almost anywhere in the world and the picture will arrive promptly and completely undamaged. Lordprice has specialist framing agents in the United States and South Africa to provide even higher service levels, but lead time from the UK is pretty good anyway. We’ve shipped to the US, Canada (as I say), Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Ireland inter alia. Lordprice is somewhat disappointed that he hasn’t been inundated with orders from Slovenia yet - he made so many new friends on rugby tour there earlier this year and they all seemed impressed with his slivovic trick.
The best example of the international dimensions of Lordprice has been our work with Japan. Our client, Tokio Ohkawa, has accepted the challenge of introducing the works of that Great Briton, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to young Japanese and has published a book on the subject. Lordprice has an outstanding portfolio of Brunel material and provided images for the book and framed pictures to accompany Ohkawa’s stand at the recent Tokyo book fair.
Most impressively, Lordprice manages to ship his framed pictures abroad for the same price as he does the UK. He says it’s something about generosity and market penetration. I suspect it’s more to do with having lots of different rates for different geographies being too complicated for his small and challenged mind.
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