Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> > > I'm with Emmanel on this. I would love to join the LHSA, but am outraged > by the extortionate premium that they charge for Canadian members, as if > there were no distinctions between postage from the U.S. > to Canada as compared with U.S. to Katmandu. > > Mark > Mark, Please do not blame the LHSA for those higher than the US price$$. Place your anger at the respective postal services, both Canadian and US and their postal pricing arrangements. sl > >> >> John Collier wrote: >> >> "We get that damn catalogue weeks after you get it in the US. Pretty much >> useless by the time I see it. I have called on a number of items and always >> the item is already gone. FINALLY they will have an electronic version which >> they have promised to delay sending until they figure mail delivery has >> occurred in the US. Possibly an improvement, we will have to wait and see. >> >> Great magazine but the rest is useless unless you reside in the US. That is >> no problem but they should make an effort to no to annoy us foreigners >> unduly. The only benefit I receive is the magazine which ends up costing me >> $25US an issue." >> >> Here here, Brother John. I have shared this beef for a number of years > and have taken >> it up with several of the LHSA big-wigs a few times at the annual > meeting. They say >> Canadian memberships are considered foreign and their mailings are turned over to >> some kind of postal mailing consolidation company (dunno what these are really >> termed, sounds suspicious though) as a way of cutting costs. >> >> To add insult to injury, Canadian members are charged considerably more than USA >> members for the privilege of this very late mail delivery - despite the fact that >> using the usual USPS system direct would cost only a little more to Canada. >> >> Until the LHSA fixes this situation, Canadian and other "foreign" membership is a >> mixed blessing. Reading about what juicy Leica bargains HAD been > available doesn't >> really turn me on the way it used to, and the $25 per issue "Viewfinder" > is not a big >> enough draw at this point. >> >> Funny how Americans are so adamant about viewing everybody else as > foreigners, while >> for the rest of the world, dealing with other countries is an everyday > normal affair. >> >> Emanuel Lowi >> Montreal >> - -- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html