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- From: accs1@bagheera.mumath
- Subject: Re: Registered for LhA; never got a reply!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.082637.8872@sunbim.be>
- Sender: usenet@sunbim.be (user news)
- Reply-To: accs1@bagheera.mumath
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
- References: <1gld2oINNn0s@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:26:37 GMT
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- In article 1gld2oINNn0s@crcnis1.unl.edu, pdietz@cse.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
- >jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
- >
- >>"Stefan Berg" <sgberg@blueberry.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
- >>I can confirm that Stefan _Bo_berg is sending out registered versions
- >>(funny about the similarity of your names...) A fellow on GEnie says he
- >>just got his, but that it took *2 months* for the mail to get from Sweden
- >>to the U.S. It seems Stefan is sending things by sea mail (it's much
- >>cheaper).
- >
- >Please....sea mail!!!?
- >
- >It costs a lousy US buck to mail from here to Germany. I'm sure he has received
- >plenty of ten's and twenty's to offset this dollar expense.
- >
- >This cheapness has allways annoyed me. For the record: an update ==
- >..35 cent disk (MEI), a mailer (25 for 1.25), and a trip to the post office
- >(stamp price ranging from .30 to 1.35)....for a total of 1.40 to mail an
- >oversea air-mail disk. .70 for a US/Canada mailing.....
- >
- >Updates are cheap.
- >
- >Phil
- >
- >* I mail free updates for every new version to every person....
- > and I'm still way ahead.
- >
- >--
- > I'm not a PowerLifting Tele-Evangelist Phil Dietz
- > although I DID play pdietz@cse.unl.edu
- > one on TV! University Of Nebraska
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- Looks like you need a trip to Europe to see yourself how the postal services
- rip people off. It is more expensive to send from Europe to US than from US
- to Europe.
-
- Frank
-