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Re: Spare Lego for us
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Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:04:46 GMT
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[This followup was posted to lugnet.general and a copy was sent to the cited
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 04:58:00 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following
profundities...
> I've received a number of offline notes about this, expressing various
> opinions and pledging various amounts. So depending on the dollar
> amount, it's doable, and at 5K I'd be in for less than half of the total
> (but not much less, so far).
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> More later. One driver of logistics is who has space to do sorts and
> rebursts. There doesn't appear to be any in NZ, either unless someone
> who has not yet spoken up speaks up. I personally don't, but I have some
> leads on space here in the US.
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> Unless there IS space in NZ shipping it to the US first makes a lot of
> sense... work through the economics of renting space and sending a
> bazillion packages to the US (most of the participants are USians) vs
> one big shipment to someone with free space and mostly domestic mail.
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> ...
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> unless we just randomize it and sell it by the pound. But why
> deliberately increase entropy? It's already mostly sorted.
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> All this is moot until Sanjay finds out how and what. Thanks for
> bringing this to our attention no matter what happens.
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> Unless John is personally volunteering space, he's at the tail end of
> the line AFAIAC. :-) I can't believe he suckered me into sending him 3
> of my precious clear macaroni. :-) Black hole is an apt description of
> the operations at his house, I speak as an eye witness. :-)
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>
Of course, air mail, sea mail, etc. would be prohibitively
expensive for a lot this size.
A lot this size would necessitate air shipment, ie freight.
I personally, working for an airline, get 75% discount on
air freight, though it is standby. I will try to find out
about shipping from a 2nd to 3rd country, without the UK
getting involved.
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