Thanks, Ladislaus, I'll mention it to him. I thought he would have replied to you as he always acknowledges my emails very promptly. I suspect he has seen your message and put it in the too hard basket and then forgotten about it. Anyway, thanks for your efforts, I will follow up on it.
Well, he probably knows and trusts you, whereas my stuff might have been consigned to the spam folder (can hardly blame him).
Perhaps you could ask him directly, since what's important is getting an answer to the question, which is basically whether he has PayPal and if any of us sent money to his e-mail address via PayPal, whether it would get to him. If not, perhaps if he could get a PayPal account, it would greatly facilitate sending money to him from the US, so that people could easily send even smaller amounts.