Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and your service unto him.

For the Japan library, they can do a Bank Wire Transfer and to do a money transfer, they are requesting an invoice or like a bill with the book and it's price. Do we have an official NIOS letterhead or official NIOS invoice.

Here is the letter from the Japanese librarian:

Dear Dr. Ayush Goyal,

Please send your invoice at your earliest convenience.

Upon receipt of it we will send our remittance by Bank Wire Transfer.

Your prompt procedure will be highly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Manabu Oda

Assistant Librarian .... Japan

HpS - ASA --- Esteemed Aja-govinda Das

Thank you for you essential help in this area for NIOS. We were little delayed in dealing with this as we did not have Word on our computer until yesterday so we could not write a proper invoice.

Then we looked at the price of the book.

Then we went to the UPS, FedEx and DHL sites and went through the mechanics of getting a quote on shipping costs to Japan. That took about 1-hour of hard work. The Estimates came back at $170, 170 and 150 respectively!

So, I responded to your e-mail with this info so you can ask the library if they have a less expensive means of shipping, and whether they still want to order the book.

Ooof. So much technical work. We can only do so much a day.

It is satisfy in some respects. To do battle with the robot and win 14/11.