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[OM] Re: Sending an Olympus on a world trip

Subject: [OM] Re: Sending an Olympus on a world trip
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:13:04 +1100

On 18/03/2005, at 10:09 PM, tom_f77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>
>> International mailing costs would cripple anything but a Stylus/mju!
>> People will tend not to want to join a ring that will cost them at
>> least $25 to participate.
>> AndrewF
>
> I reckon half the fun would be seeing how the camera managed to hitch 
> its way
> from continent to continent with people who happened to be making 
> trips; long
> rambles around Europe and then a sudden jump to the Antipodes etc etc. 
>  Surely
> not beyond us to "organise".
>
> Tom
>

Could take around five years that way and excludes non-travellers. Plus 
no-one is going to want to be first receiver in Europe given VAT rates 
or last despatcher to another continent, given postage rates. Sorry to 
be a wet blanket, but I've had the experience! Go light and small! Or 
have a competition for the list where all pix have to be taken with 
OM1/50-1.8? Of an identical item?


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