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Subject: [Leica] ANSWER TO International Shipping Fiasco with LUG Book
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Jan 6 08:29:52 2007
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Jim,

On top of all of this ... just let me thank you one more time for all
the effort you put in to this. You are extending far more gracious
services than should be required of anyone. That UPS has a racket
going is not anything you could have known. We who live outside have
known this for a while. It has always mystified me why american
businesses use anything other than the reliable USPS. It is cheap,
efficient, interfaces with other international (not privatized) postal
services, also top class. A mystery.

Anyway. Many thanks for your effort. I am going to try and get mine
through relatives. If that doesn't work, I will gratefully take you up
on your offer. But I would prefer to lessen the burden for you. You
have already done much more than enough.

Daniel

On 1/6/07, Jim Shulman <jshul@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> It sounds like this is turning into paving crew for The Road to Hell.
>
> >From what I understand, blurb.com's International shipping now works: they
> are shipping to the limited menu of nations offered.
>
> However, from what some comments on the LUG indicate the International
> shipping costs are just shy of involuntary fornication.
>
> It was my goal to hold down costs for this to less than a Leica-branded 
> 39MM
> UV filter (about $80 at the local shop).  I can't do a thing about
> blurb.com's shipping charges.  However, I can help somewhat on 
> international
> shipping.
>
> SHIPPING OFFER FOR ALL THOSE OUTSIDE US
> For all those outside of the US who would like to purchase copies and have
> them shipped via the US Postal System, here's my offer:
>
> 1. Order your book(s)through blurb.com, but have them shipped to my home.
> My home address is available if you contact me OFFLINE at jshul@comcast.net
> 2. MAKE SURE THE PACKAGE INVOICE REFERENCES YOUR NAME!  I don't want to 
> play
> "guess the LUGger" when the books arrive.
> 3. I will contact you for your address outside of the US.  Once I have 
> that,
> I'll ship your book(s) via US Post Office.
> 4. Those who wish to pay for the US Post Office Fees can send me $$ via
> paypal, or buy dinner when I visit your country, or you mine.  Whatever.
>
> In the future, this kind of service will probably become something truly
> based for local production.  A book like ours would up uploaded to a
> service, and your local printing company (a business that had the 
> capability
> of producing the books) would get the files and create the book.  Virtually
> all of the professional printers are now offering digital printing, so
> adding the bindery stage would be a natural extension.
>
> Best,
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
>
>
>
>
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