Imagine a newbie...or 20

riverman wrote:
Thank you for wanting to pitch in. You can send things regular post to
me at this address:
c/o HKIS
1 Red Hill Rd
Tai Tam, HK

Be sure to include your return address.

--riverman



hmmm... that address seems inadequate for some reason. hell, sending a
letter to the next county in nc requires more than that! no zip
code-like things?

also...i know your first name is myron...is riverman your last name? g
do i preface it with herr doktor?

how about llbean gift certificates?

....or, even better, troutflies.com harry, can you simply charge my
account and send flies? that might be the best roff approach...pure,
within the newsgroup, and dang good flies at a good price.

jeff

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:26:21 -0400, jeff
wrote:

.or, even better, troutflies.com harry, can you simply charge my
account and send flies? that might be the best roff approach...pure,
within the newsgroup, and dang good flies at a good price.

And, boy, do they work well! Excellent idea.

Dave

On Oct 29, 7:26 am, jeff wrote:
riverman wrote:

Thank you for wanting to pitch in. You can send things regular post to

me at this address:
c/o HKIS
1 Red Hill Rd
Tai Tam, HK

Be sure to include your return address.

--riverman

hmmm... that address seems inadequate for some reason. hell, sending a
letter to the next county in nc requires more than that! no zip
code-like things?

also...i know your first name is myron...is riverman your last name? g
do i preface it with herr doktor?

how about llbean gift certificates?

...or, even better, troutflies.com harry, can you simply charge my
account and send flies? that might be the best roff approach...pure,
within the newsgroup, and dang good flies at a good price.

jeff

Hi Jeff:
No gift certificates. Believe it or not, the school policy
specifically prohibits teachers from receiving them for any reason.
Your guess is as good as mine.

Believe it or not, that's all you need for the mailing address. You
should put my last name as "Buck". You should also write "AIRMAIL" on
the envelope on both sides, or else the post office has a little blue
sticker they'll put on themselves. The kids will be getting their gear
by the end of December, so you have about 4-6 weeks for this. Earlier
is better, as always. It will take 2 business days to get here from
anywhere in the US.

If you still feel a bit uncomfortable about the mailing address being
too short, you can expand the initials.
c/o Hong Kong International School
1 Red Hill Rd
Tai Tam, Hong Kong

There's no Zip Code, but if anyone is going through some computer that
requires one, put "00000".

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message
There are no special packaging rules...just put them in a ziplock and
put that in an envelope and send them regular post. You are welcome to
pick flies specifically because they mail well.


Logistics question. Seems to me it might be worth it for someone to collect
all the USA sets here a la fly swap & send one package overseas. One
customs declaration & one international shipping cost.

I'll volunteer for this end if you think that's a good idea.

Joe F.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:26:21 -0400, jeff
wrote:

riverman wrote:
Thank you for wanting to pitch in. You can send things regular post to
me at this address:
c/o HKIS
1 Red Hill Rd
Tai Tam, HK

Be sure to include your return address.

--riverman



hmmm... that address seems inadequate for some reason. hell, sending a
letter to the next county in nc requires more than that! no zip
code-like things?

also...i know your first name is myron...is riverman your last name? g
do i preface it with herr doktor?

how about llbean gift certificates?

...or, even better, troutflies.com harry, can you simply charge my
account and send flies? that might be the best roff approach...pure,
within the newsgroup, and dang good flies at a good price.

jeff


I can set up something that would offer X number of flies for Y
amount of money, Y being what would amount to my cost. I will throw in
20 boxes for the flies......
The package would take more than two days though.

if this sounds viable, let me know

On Oct 29, 9:54 am, wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:26:21 -0400, jeff
wrote:





riverman wrote:
Thank you for wanting to pitch in. You can send things regular post to
me at this address:
c/o HKIS
1 Red Hill Rd
Tai Tam, HK

Be sure to include your return address.

--riverman

hmmm... that address seems inadequate for some reason. hell, sending a
letter to the next county in nc requires more than that! no zip
code-like things?

also...i know your first name is myron...is riverman your last name? g
do i preface it with herr doktor?

how about llbean gift certificates?

...or, even better, troutflies.com harry, can you simply charge my
account and send flies? that might be the best roff approach...pure,
within the newsgroup, and dang good flies at a good price.

jeff

I can set up something that would offer X number of flies for Y
amount of money, Y being what would amount to my cost. I will throw in
20 boxes for the flies......
The package would take more than two days though.

if this sounds viable, let me know- Hide quoted text -

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Harry...this is very generous of you! Your prices and quality look
excellent, and I'm glad that I'm now in a postition to start buying
from you. I'm going to amend my LLBeans order and not get any flies or
boxes from them, but channel all this through you. Are you okay with
shipping stuff overseas? I will cover all the charges.

I'm imagining setting up an account with you and sending some seed
money from here and letting any roffians who wish to contribute do so.
Then, after a couple of weeks (Mid November) you can tell me what the
balance is, and I'll create the order based on that. that would give
you several weeks before they go out, which is fine. Should I email
you privately to discuss prices, etc?

Be sure the boxes that have your shop info on them....if any of these
kids become lifetime fishermen, there's no fly shops in HK so
hopefully this will have a spinoff effect for you. :-)

If anyone would rather tie some hand-tied flies for the kids, that
would still be wonderful and very special for the kids. I think the
best way would be to have each tyer just mail them in a simple
envelope....customs shouldn't be a problem for individual envelopes,
but I worry about some overzealous customs agent getting a red flag if
a package mentioned something about feathers and fur....it might jam
up the whole works. I think a box from Harry's shop would be less
worrisome, as it's a commercial enterprise.

Mailing stuff here is really easy...not like Congo.

--riverman

wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:26:21 -0400, jeff
wrote:

...or, even better, troutflies.com harry, can you simply charge my
account and send flies? that might be the best roff approach...pure,
within the newsgroup, and dang good flies at a good price.

jeff



I can set up something that would offer X number of flies for Y
amount of money, Y being what would amount to my cost. I will throw in
20 boxes for the flies......
The package would take more than two days though.

if this sounds viable, let me know


harry - sounds great to me. but, you shouldn't absorb the loss of
profit. i'm gonna send you a check to be applied to purchase of flies,
mailing cost, etc. i prefer that you use your typical prices (which are
already very reasonable) and not use your cost. i want to do my small
part to keep you in business. is there a different mailing address i
should use to make sure you receive the check...

jeff

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:56:51 -0700, riverman
wrote:

'm imagining setting up an account with you and sending some seed
money from here and letting any roffians who wish to contribute do so.
Then, after a couple of weeks (Mid November) you can tell me what the
balance is, and I'll create the order based on that. that would give
you several weeks before they go out, which is fine. Should I email
you privately to discuss prices, etc?

riverman...
what I have set up is coupon based. I would much rather those that
want to contribute buy the flies they would like to have sent . I am a
bit unease, for various reasons, about handling monies that are sent
directly to me without an order associated with it ... with an order,
the customer has copy of what he is expecting to have sent to NZ/HK.

The use of the special coupon will tell me that the entire order is
for your students.



remove the second n to send a reply

thanks

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:48:00 -0400, Dave LaCourse
wrote:

Count me in for 20 flies, Myron. Please give us a list. I'll either
tie or buy.

Dave

If you are interested in participating in buying and sending trout
flies to rivermans class(s) here are some instructions:
If you have an account, log in and begin shopping at

http://www.troutflies.com/go.mvc?ID=STOREFRONT

you don't need an account to shop, but it does save some time to fill
one out the form. Use the above URL in any event, to get started.

Once you have a basket of flies, proceed to checkout, fill in the info
as needed, it's your basic shopping basket stuff...near the end, a
box will show : "Redeem Coupons"...enter the word - school.

The appropriate discount will be taken at checkout and your order
will be flagged for rivermans endeavor only...all of the orders and
their contents so marked, will be sent to him when he asks for them.
Remember, if you use the coupon (school) your order will not be
sent to you ...:-) You will get an email copy, but no bugs... oh
yes... if substitution is ok then please answer " yes" to that
question at check out.. also if you would like to defray the shipping
costs, just add some type of shipping from the drop down menu at
checkout. There are few to choose from.


any issues or questions you can email me from the site or drop the
second n in hmasonn