From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Dec 09 13:53:33 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PQoQe-0000LC-QE for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:53:32 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:53:32 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: I are *dumb*. Message-ID: <20101209215332.GU27025@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20101209180933.GC27025@digitalkingdom.org> <20101209190730.GF27025@digitalkingdom.org> <20101209195756.GK27025@digitalkingdom.org> <20101209205742.GP27025@digitalkingdom.org> <4D01499A.9030501@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D01499A.9030501@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 758 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:26:50PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > 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. Hmmm. I missed that. I'm under the impression that if we can stick an ISBN on each item, we don't need the boxes. I therefore assumed that we could put the Amazon sticker labels on them instead. Yep, that seems to be correct; just ship a box full of books with a sticker on each book. http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1993560� http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2100473� I'm double checking with them, but I'm pretty certain that's the case. We can try it out with just one box of books, and see how it goes. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/