Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:LHSA catalogue and other beefs
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 21:27:35 -0500

>>
> 
> I'm with Emmanel on this.  I would love to join the LHSA, but am outraged
> by the extortionate premium that they charge for Canadian members, as if
> there were no distinctions between postage from the U.S.
> to Canada as compared with U.S. to Katmandu.
>
> Mark
>

Mark,

Please do not blame the LHSA for those higher than the US price$$. Place
your anger at the respective postal services, both Canadian and US and their
postal pricing arrangements.

sl

>

>>
>> John Collier wrote:
>>
>> "We get that damn catalogue weeks after you get it in the US. Pretty much
>> useless by the time I see it. I have called on a number of items and always
>> the item is already gone. FINALLY they will have an electronic version which
>> they have promised to delay sending until they figure mail delivery has
>> occurred in the US. Possibly an improvement, we will have to wait and see.
>>
>> Great magazine but the rest is useless unless you reside in the US. That is
>> no problem but they should make an effort to no to annoy us foreigners
>> unduly. The only benefit I receive is the magazine which ends up costing me
>> $25US an issue."
>>
>> Here here, Brother John. I have shared this beef for a number of years
> and have taken
>> it up with several of the LHSA big-wigs a few times at the annual
> meeting. They say
>> Canadian memberships are considered foreign and their mailings are turned
over to
>> some kind of postal mailing consolidation company (dunno what these are
really
>> termed, sounds suspicious though) as a way of cutting costs.
>>
>> To add insult to injury, Canadian members are charged considerably more than
USA
>> members for the privilege of this very late mail delivery - despite the fact
that
>> using the usual USPS system direct would cost only a little more to Canada.
>>
>> Until the LHSA fixes this situation, Canadian and other "foreign" membership
is a
>> mixed blessing. Reading about what juicy Leica bargains HAD been
> available doesn't
>> really turn me on the way it used to, and the $25 per issue "Viewfinder"
> is not a big
>> enough draw at this point.
>>
>> Funny how Americans are so adamant about viewing everybody else as
> foreigners, while
>> for the rest of the world, dealing with other countries is an everyday
> normal affair.
>>
>> Emanuel Lowi
>> Montreal
>> - --

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