4 Jul
2024
4 Jul
'24
2:05 a.m.
Mike's idea is brilliant. Corporate rates with DHL or Fedex are much lower
than what you get as an individual. If your freight volume gets high enough
then it becomes outright cheap. If Vcfed as an organisation could be the
broker then it would work well and make some money for Vcfed. Of course it
would also require staff to administer the scheme.
On Wed, 3 July 2024, 4:07 am Mike Katz via cctalk, <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Rather than trying a kind o fidonet like
transportation system why don't
we work together to negotiate a rate with a national electronic
equipment mover.
Maybe through the ausipices of an existing non-profit organization like
the VCFED or maybe an organization of museums.
Good luck.
On 7/2/2024 12:33 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
participation
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 9:27 AM Bill Degnan via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> A lot of us have storage spaces and we could all possibly work together
to
> create a FIDONET of shipping vintage computer
items from one node to the
> next. I know it's probably in practice impractical on a large scale
> perhaps but theoretically this might be a nice way to get items slowly
and
cheaply
from point A to point B (via several less expensive hops).
Bill
This is something I've thought about from time to time. It can more
readily be accomplished today with the increased interest and
in this hobby: there are a lot more collectors
out there now across the
entire USA and Canada.
Sellam