| From: | Manx timburke@*******.com.au |
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| Subject: | List T-Shirts |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Mar 1999 03:54:29 +1000 |
>Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.com.au> writes:
>> Point 1 - to have one person ONLY do Continental US shirts, and then have
>> to pass on the rest to someone else to send outside the US, is a pain in
>> the butt. It'll add time, cost (shipping), problems... the person who does
>> it, really has to do it all I think.
>
> Splitting up the work turned out pretty well for a miniatures
>order that we did on another ML. We sent ~1/3 of them off to
>Australia, and the rest were dealt with in the USA (I think we managed
>to keep things to two continents). You save on shipping, since it's
>cheaper to mail 10 things in one larger box than to mail them
>individually, and you get to do things like send by air and ensuring
>it. Once it gets there, local mail tends to be pretty straightforward
>compared to international mail.
> It also means that one poor sod doesn't have to do all of the
>distribution work. However, I'm not sure if the demographics of this
>list are similar enough to make it worthwhile. On the other list, we
>have so many .au subscribers that they were a large portion of the
>order. It's not really worth doing if there are only a few people in
>each country ordering a shirt.
>
>Mark
From memory there are at least 13 people on RN that live
in Brisbane, Australia so I can't see any difficulty in doing
a bulk send of Shirts to us.
Manx
timburke@*******.com.au
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