Re: Foreign Memberships

["Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>]

No, guys.  I appreciate your efforts, but you're making this way too
complicated.  All I want to do is send a group of magazines to one specific
place where they can be HANDED to local aquarists.  Having to develop a
network of reliable people who will re-mail a bunch of magazines once they
arrive in their country would be difficult.  We simply couldn't monitor or
manage it well enough.

Besides, according to the periodical shipping rates Dave G. gave us, the
cost may be low enough that this could all be a non-issue.  It might be
cheap enough and reliable enough to use for overseas delivery as well.

Karen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Wilson" <rwilson@octa4.net.au>
To: <aga-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Foreign Memberships


> I think I get the idea.   Send all the members journals for the
> country to one place in the country.   Then the central area, a
> volunteer or aquarium fish/plant club, using cheaper local postage
> distributes them out to the membership in that country.   How many
> members are there in Australia?   Can do some calculations on monday
> when the post office is open and find out the difference between a
> bulk rate of postage from the US plus the periodical rate here then
> compare that to the rate for individual journal postage from the US
> to Australia.
>
> Cheers
> Dave Wilson
> Darwin NT
>
>
> >I have been corresponding with one of our members in India who sent me a
> >bunch of photos on CD which he donated to the AGA.  He has a group of
> >friends in
> >Bangalore who are all interested in planted tanks.  He was not really
> >complaining, but telling me of the difficulties getting good information,
> >and up until recently, getting PAM and TAG.  (I guess that until
recently,
> >the
> >Indian government had some strange law that you couldn't use credit cards
> >for subscriptions)
> >
> >Anyway, I was wondering if it made sense to offer some sort of deal to
> >groups in foreign countries, where if we could ship a certain number of
> >magazines to the same address, that we could offer them at a discounted
> >rate. (our current rate outside the U.S. has to be much higher because of
> >the added postage costs)
> >   I would think we'd save quite a bit on shipping that way, and we
> >could just pass the savings on to the members.
> >
> >It might be a "reason" for hobbyists in other areas of the world to
become a
> >little more organized and develop more of a community as well.
> >
> >What do all you think?  Are some of the people on this list from outside
the
> >U.S.?  Would you have enough people in your area interested in doing
this?
> >
> >Karen
> >
> >
> >
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