status of the free mailout

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Pete Brown">

> So if we had a businesses in most of the capital cities that can help with
> this then we could put it in place?

Consider that from Canonical's point of view, dealing with > 5 companies for
a population of 20M would not scale well, particularly when distribution and
production of CDs is not the main business of those companies.

Turns out it's hard to compete with the economy of scale that Canonical gets
doing shipit centrally, no matter how good your intentions. :-)

- Jeff

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