Just FYI... Re: the stuff Thea shipped to GeoIQ: it disappeared into the ether as far as anyone knows. Andrew and I looked for it, but could never find it, so that's a dead end. Better to concentrate on Steve C as a source.
-- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Einstein On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> > wrote: > > > > > > In my experience, the single most expensive bit about the flyers is > > distribution. Printing 10k flyers costs ~ EUR 130 or so here in Germany > (so, > > 1.3 cent per piece), but re-packaging them into easily shippable cartons > of > > 100 or 200pcs and mailing them to individual mappers or local groups > costs ~ > > 1.8 cent per piece on average, not counting time spent. > > > > I had tried to find someone in the US to distribute the English flyer; I > had > > someone willing to sponsor the cost of printing but nobody I spoke to > felt > > able to actually handle distribution. > > Helpful info, thanks! > > I guess we should have one central distribution point here in the US. > Shipping within the US is pretty cheap (shipping to and from Canada > not so much, or so I've heard). I can do it if there's no central > repository for these things yet. Steven mentioned he already has a few > 100 and SteveC may have more. I'll ping Steve and see if he has a lot > of them. I also remember Thea sent a lot of stuff to the GeoIQ office > when we had the hack weekend there back in Feb. What was that and > where is it now? > > -- > martijn van exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com >
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