Re: Fleet book [OT]

On 22 May 98, at 19:06, Jerry Han wrote:
> > The consignment of FB copies for US distribution is currently in the
> > middle of the Big Pond, on a container ship bound for Seattle. 
> Seattle?  No wonder it's taking so long, if they're going the long way
> around... (8-)
> Seriously though, how/why are they being shipped by ship to Seattle? 
(If
> I can ask without the MIBs visiting me in the middle of the night.
(8-) )

Because that's where the ship's going? If the goods are in a container
that container 
probably goes (first) to wherever the most cargo on the ship wants to go
to. GZG don't 
have any controls on international shipping schedules. And if the next
ship to say New 
York doesn't leave until a week later, whose to choose?

If you accept that air freighting them would make the price
unacceptable, this is the only 
way. The ship they are on is (hopefully) the first available ship
heading to North America 
with space, Can't ask much more than that.  

I Of course, if you were a /real/ obsessive you'd already have arranged
a redeye 
economy class flight to come over and get one by hand :).

			TTFN
				Jon
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