From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Dec 09 13:27:30 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:27:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net ([68.230.240.7]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQo1O-0007oN-OS for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:27:30 -0800 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.03.00 201-2260-125-20100507) with ESMTP id <20101209212716.INMG8831.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:27:16 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.101] ([70.179.118.163]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id h9TG1f00P3Xcbvq029TGS4; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:27:16 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=zVmY/o7cw90b0ioTXE+O5+wkI7G6DqYdezDwUGsrW1Y= c=1 sm=1 a=K19LXTB21a0A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=7ls7RdmwX4RvLZNVULbZcg==:17 a=rFCGAU60ak43uPVTpVIA:9 a=XayPFNp7HYjMSg7hfIIA:7 a=Di4f0NC0rnrx4wOxdi5R0OgJG8wA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=7ls7RdmwX4RvLZNVULbZcg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <4D01499A.9030501@lojban.org> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:26:50 -0500 From: Robert LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: I are *dumb*. References: <20101209180933.GC27025@digitalkingdom.org> <20101209190730.GF27025@digitalkingdom.org> <20101209195756.GK27025@digitalkingdom.org> <20101209205742.GP27025@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20101209205742.GP27025@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 755 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board Robin Lee Powell wrote: > The only problem I can see with simply sending them all is if the > sales slow down so badly that we're paying for storage and nothing > else. I'm willing to accept that risk, frankly. If I understand the "Fulfillment by Amazon" notice that they sent, we have to prepackage each book in a box , and sticker them for shipping (Matt has boxes perhaps, but I've used padded envelopes in the past). That is indeed a lot of work all at once, and it means that I can't simply send a box of books to them in the mail, but have to prepare each one individually, and then ship boxes of boxes of books. Frankly, if I have to do all that in advance, actually shipping them is a relatively small chore by comparison. I'll admit that I never thought of preparing a couple dozen books for shipping is advance, storing them until needed, meaning that we just address them and ship them. (I did that at one point for our paper product orders and they just sat around for years - I still have a boxful somewhere). If I have to do order fulfillment again, that might make the job easy enough for me to keep up with it. lojbab