status of the free mailout

[Andrew Swinn]

Good job with what you have done so far.

How about putting them on Ebay with a buy it now price just to cover the
postage and/or setting up a paypal account for donations that may cover
a few to be sent for free at a local level.

I admire the fact that you are trying to do this for free, however my
personal opinion is that if you can't wait the 4-6 weeks for shipit to
send them out you should be at least happy paying for the cost of
postage. The $2 or whatever it is, is a small amount to pay to get
things sent quickly.

Another option would be spreading the work around. I have sent a few CDs
out to people around the region and I dare say other locals might be
happy to do so.

Cheers,

Andrew Swinn (Phlosten)


Peter baker wrote:
> hey guys
>
> the local mailout of free install discs has been suspended till
> further notice.  I have been doing it as a free community service for
> the last few months, and now it is at a stage where its starting to be
> too big for me to handle
>
> yesterday we had 4 requests for ubuntu cd's to be mailed out.  for a
> long time there we were averaging 1 a day, but suddenly this has shot
> up to 2-3 a day.  this gets kinda expensive.
>
> I quite enjoy doing the actual mailing, its the financial side I don't
> like.  so if anyone has any suggestions on how to raise money for the
> mailout I'm all ears
>
> peter (my email address on the wiki and ubuntu.com.au
> <http://ubuntu.com.au> is sydneypete at gmail.com
> <mailto:sydneypete at gmail.com>)
>
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