[modeleng] Re: Old Clubs and Post

It is certainly not in the same league as MSEE but TSME (http://tsme.ca/ )
is celebrating their 75th anniversary this year.

I second Clif's suggestion regarding Amazon. Their "buy it used" service has
very competitive rates and no charge for local shipping of new books if you
exceed their minimum order size. I think that the UK is losing considerable
business due to the excessive shipping costs to overseas purchasers. With
the current exchange rate the cost of many model engineering items is
reasonable but the addition of shipping puts it out of bounds.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Clif Walker
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:40 PM
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Old Clubs and Post
> 
> Hi Harry and All,
> 
> If you know the weight and size of the Book you could possibly sort your
> own
> delivery out. Some of the courier companies will do a collection service
> organised from the delivery end of the operation.
> I dont like the delivery costs made by some businesses as they seem to use
> excess charges as a way of boosting their profits.
> Also have you tried Amazon as they seem to sell most books.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clif
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:31 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Old Clubs and Post
> 
> 
> > Alan and all,
> > SMEE was founded in 1898 by Percival Marshall and a few others.  I was
> > once a member of that esteemed (well, by some anyway) organization but
> > after a few years we reluctantly parted company over non-payment of
> dues.
> > I couldn't see continuing to feed them annual dues for little benefit
> > other than being able to say I was a member and wear the pin.  They did
> > produce quite a nice little journal, for a club.
> >
> > Post.  I know this is a futile rant, but I've just now priced a book out
> > of the UK, at a reasonable priced from a commercial bookseller, but the
> > post on the book will be over 12 Quid!  For a smallish quarto book!
> That
> > just seems outrageous to me and will prevent a purchase, which was at
> best
> > a stretch in this economy anyway.
> > Grumble, grumble,
> > Harry
> >
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