22 Jul
1997
22 Jul
'97
5:54 p.m.
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Brett wrote:
list of who gets gets what. The closest Rescue Squad
personnel arranges
a time and date for his pick up in B.C. We ALL find out about Customs
view of shipping scrap across the boarder 8-) Sure - the hardest hit will
be the first in the chain - but we ALL should be first at least ONCE! Then
the next RS person in each direction goes to #1's location and we start
splitting up the goodies. I am NOT saying you will get the item in 10
days. It might take months to sort it all out. If the first guy spends
$200 on a truck and $100 on gas - so what - if he comes back with 30
boxes thats what $10 each? We got it as far as Washington or Oregon! The
next guy spends $60 bucks on gas in his station wagon - ok - he gets 6
boxes and it comes to another $10. We would be in Idaho, Utah or
California! The #1 guy gets to meet Tim - an honor in itself - but only
So what happens to the guy in Maine? Does he get to pick up the
accumulated $600 in transportation charges that the others before him
incurred?
really spent a weekend of time - he also gets some
hardware of doc or
boards or whatever - if he wants any - and if you set it up so the next
crew is there to unload him - even better! In one weekend we could be
almost a quarter across the US with some of it already delivered. The next
weekend or even a month later (depending on storage 8-) the next leg goes.
Does everyone here have the time to retrieve, sort, re-package and
transport equipment in this manner? I hate to speak for everyone, but I
doubt it.
Finally, everything gets delivered. Maybe the East
Coast pays $10 for 10
trips - it's still only $100 for a personally delivered/pickup computer
within 8-10 hour drive. So what if it took 2 months to get there?
You're forgetting the fact that the equipment still had to make its way
to Maine, accumulating the transportation charges the entire way. I
wouldn't expect anyone to extend me that charity.
Isaac and I have had a vision 8-) of a group of
pickups and trailers all
meeting in a cornfield in Nebraska with the associated "Chinese Fire
Drill" of people running around sorting out shipments and maybe having a
campfire or pot-luck dinner! God what a life it could be! You get to do
a nice weekend drive - meet friends with the SAME interests as you - have
a nice talk - do some drinking maybe and then back to the real world by
Monday! Who could ask for more out of life? During the week set up to do
it all over again, sort some shipments - meet people closer to you who can
make it as a evening trip or even an overnighter. Poor over the docs you
*said* you didn't want but - damn - that looks interesting.
This would be nice, but again, its a matter of time and money. I and I
would expect others in this busy world have plenty to do on weekends as
it is. This hobby is not my life. It is a hobby.
Sam
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