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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 21:10:46 GMT
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lpieniazek@=IHateSpam=novera.com
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Julie just reported back from the PO and it will be even MORE to ship
than we had first thought. Quoting from an email she sent (with
permission)
>
>
> Sigh :-/
>
> I went to the p.o., and my boxes were too big. I did not use
> huge boxes. I have
> received boxes in the mail 2 or more times bigger than what
> I used. Here is
> what I was told is the rule: max length 42 inches; max length
> and girth combined
> 79 inches.
>
> I don't have any acceptable size boxes sitting around here.
>
> I could go out and get some at Office Depot, they have some
> 14x14x14 listed on
> their website. That would be a total of 70 inches. That
> really isn't a very big
> box. The p.o. charges by the pound.
>
> I have one smaller box here 54 inch total, I just put 6
> purple buckets and some
> misc. bulk in there. It weighs 9 lbs, which would cost $39.13 to ship.
>
> The way I had things boxed, I estimated $444 to ship based on
> 123 pounds. If I
> could get the 14x14x14 boxes and was able to fit 10 pounds in
> each box, that
> would be 12 boxes x $42.15 per box = $504 in shipping.
>
> I have spent $512 on Lego. Do you want to check with other
> donators to see if
> this is still a good idea, as far as this being money well
> spent? I thought I
> read a post that said the cost of Lego is double in Turkey.
> At this point, "we"
> are paying double as well.
>
> Feel free to repost/email what ever part of this email you
> feel necessary.
>
> Julie
To the group... what should we do? It chaps me to spend 1/2 the total
just on postage. Should we send money to Selcuk instead? Assuming that
Julie can get refunds on most of the stuff, that is...
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