I've shipped 4000 pound cars via air freight. I think the charge was about $100,000, which works out to $25 per pound. There's no way anyone pays $1000 per pound to ship anything of any size. On Jul 9, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Aaron Reynolds wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2006, at 6:40 PM, John Forbes wrote: > >> $1,000/pound. What rubbish. >> >> On that basis an airfare for a human being would be $150,000. >> >> I do wish people would think before making such crazy assertions. > > John, you'll note that he says "for large quantities". Human beings > are not shipped air freight by the thousands at once. Likewise, Pentax > does not import one or two cameras at a time, and this is why the > shipments of K100D and K110D cameras that are specifically being talked > about are coming over on ships. > > I realize that it's hard for people to understand the difference in > scale, but there is a massive difference in scale. How many cameras do > you think they're bringing in, and how much space do you think they > take up? > > -Aaron > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
