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Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:23:20 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.SPAMLESScom
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444 to ship? That must be a LOT of stuff bulkwise... or it just stinks
to mail to Turkey, I guess.
Thanks for doing this for us. Your check is in the mail. Well, not
literally, since today's sunday, but you know what I mean...
dkrenz wrote:
>
> Here is what I bought:
>
> 6 - 1200 pc blue tubs
> 4 - 400 pc freestyle w/backpack
> 1 - 80 pc primo (clearance at w-m for $11.00 yea!!!)
> 1 - duplo indian family (also clearance at w-m)
> 6 - 400+ pc classic sets playtable
> 1 - duplo school bus (kinda odd, I know, but I needed something about that price to
> get the buy 1 get 1 50%
> plus it great for storing bricks in) 70 pieces
> 4 - yellow duplo buckets #2493 50 pieces
> 3 - green duplo tubs
> 2 - Pooh Duplo
> 4 - 6580 land jet
> 1 - classic bucket #4288 400 pieces
> 3 - primo in the lady bug container
> 2 - duplo ghost train oval set #2276
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> The above totaled $512. I added up the piece count and came up with just under
> 13,000 pieces - that'll keep little hands busy & happy!. I boxed everything up (6
> boxes) and came up with 123 pounds. According to the USPS web site, that will cost
> $444.47 to ship. Depending on how close my scale is to correct (it's kinda awkward
> setting boxes on it), that leaves about $216 left to spend. Unless anybody has a
> better idea, I plan on going to Wal-mart on Wednesday to spend the remaining money
> on the 400 pc classic bucket #4288, they had an entire end cap full of them, they
> sell for just under $10. I was disappointed k-m didn't have more of the #4288
> buckets, maybe I just didn't get to the stores early enough in the week.
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> Where I could I combined contents of items. I combined 2 blue tubs into one blue
> tub, ect. I did this to get more weight into each box, the heavier the box, the
> less it cost to ship.
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> I'll be mailing these 6 boxes out tomorrow. When I get all done with everything,
> I'll mail a copy of the receipts to Larry.
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> I'll post another update tomorrow after I return from the p.o.
>
> Julie
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