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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #50 on: November 10, 2021, 07:39:25 »
There was a car on BaT recently with a copy included. Buy the car, keep the book, sell the car. Easy…;)
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« Reply #51 on: November 10, 2021, 13:23:41 »
And maybe make some money. in the process.
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« Reply #52 on: November 10, 2021, 22:27:07 »
I didn't expect anything more than a convenient compilation of Pagoda World. It's much more. It's seven and one-half years of Pagoda celebration spread over 300-plus glossy pages. The printing is phenomenal. The photographs, especially, look like they have all been enhanced.

I've been in the printing business for decades and our printer, Southport Graphics in Morrisville, NC had indeed done an amazing job on this, very impressed myself. Some of the earlier editions of the magazine itself were not printed as well as the current ones are, and our vendor for that, The Hartley Press of Jacksonville, FL is also doing a great job on the magazine.

The quality of the print is merely people at the printer knowing what they are doing, using excellent equipment and doing their job exceedingly well.

I told everyone, once we were reviewing the proof copy, that this would be bigger and better than Volume I!!

Let's not forget the content...we had great material to work with!  ;)
Michael Salemi
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #53 on: November 12, 2021, 16:24:17 »
I received my book on Tuesday. I have to say, it is nothing short of brilliant. For someone like me, who joined fairly recently (2017? or so) and who did not get the early versions, this is invaluable.
But besides this, the sheer quality of the book is outstanding. I am a member on a couple of other specialized web-sites/forums that have "club" magazines, but nothing comes even close.
Kudos to all who put that together, made the magazine possible to begin with and organized this reprint.
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« Reply #54 on: November 12, 2021, 21:49:18 »
Thanks to all for the kind words, hoping the team involved is reading them as I have.

Logistics Update: AlexD picked up the non-USA books at the printer this morning, Friday, and drove them about ¾ of the way to me. We unloaded his car, loaded up mine, and now they are in my car here. They'll be repackaged for the four destinations of Australia, Canada, Ireland and UK for dispatch worldwide shortly, and I expect to have them on the way no later than Monday.
Michael Salemi
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #55 on: November 13, 2021, 02:10:19 »
Got mine today.
Excellent.
Thank you.
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« Reply #56 on: November 13, 2021, 06:20:26 »
Mine was in my mountain of mail when I returned from four months in Italy Tuesday night.  I couldn’t resist a quick thumb through ahead of sorting through the rest of the pile.  The quality is just fantastic and the organizational effort by Michael, Alex and the many other volunteers to efficiently deliver the book on such a tight program is commendable! 

Many thanks to all involved.
Ralph

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« Reply #57 on: November 13, 2021, 19:53:33 »
Received mine yesterday.  All I can say is GREAT!  Thanks to everyone involved.

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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #58 on: November 14, 2021, 00:27:28 »
Got mine yesterday in Southold NY.  Very interesting to see the posts from all over the world.  Of course it is excellent.  What a valuable resource we have with all involved!  Thank you  JB
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #59 on: November 14, 2021, 15:35:39 »
I got mine yesterday and it looks great!!
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« Reply #60 on: November 14, 2021, 17:22:26 »
These books are a great resource.  Thanks to all of those who put in the hard work to produce them.

Regards
John
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #61 on: November 17, 2021, 15:08:01 »
All the international books are on the way to their four destinations: Canada, Australia, Ireland and UK, for further dispatch to the four corners of the globe.
The packages will begin arriving by the middle of next week. Our members and trusted assistant volunteers in this trans-shipping effort will then begin to post them.
Michael Salemi
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« Reply #62 on: November 17, 2021, 16:16:36 »
A couple more volume issues and you will do it with your eyes closed, fully automatic on a push button basis!
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2021, 15:17:25 »
A couple more volume issues and you will do it with your eyes closed, fully automatic on a push button basis!

Nice thought, Pawel, but hardly accurate I'm afraid.

What the team involved (it's not just me) has done is navigate a system of issues to come up with a viable, workable and least-costly, best practices program of PROCESSES, which includes selected vendors (such as printing, shipping, packaging materials, etc.). So in that respect, yes, we can do another sales project of anything without having to research what the best way of doing it is. This has been honed now with the badge project of 2018, and the two book projects of this year.

While that's a big part of it, it's only processes. There's still a lot of physical work involved on the part of the team. The physical work was mostly AlexD and myself getting to this point. The hundreds of pounds of international books were carried by Alex to me, then I re-packed them for the final mile to the four international destinations. At that point the international team will take over and label them all and then transport them to their local PO.

There were easier and less physical ways of doing it for sure. But it might have made the book cost $150...
Michael Salemi
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« Reply #64 on: November 18, 2021, 17:12:50 »
Lots of appreciation and respect for that!
Pawel

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« Reply #65 on: November 23, 2021, 01:10:56 »
Canada and UK book parcels have arrived. Last mile/km postage has been prepared and sent. They should be in the mail to you soon.

Awaiting news on Ireland/EU and Australia/PacRim parcels.
Michael Salemi
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #66 on: November 23, 2021, 21:30:16 »
Canada's books are in the hands of Canada Post!

Let us know when they arrive - I wonder how much the floods will affect Vancouver!

George


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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #67 on: November 23, 2021, 22:38:44 »
I love 💕 it!! Taken to Canada Post in a Pagoda! Way to go George!
Michael Salemi
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« Reply #68 on: November 25, 2021, 16:12:52 »
An update from London.
Books now have labels on them and I’ll drop them at the sorting office tomorrow morning.
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #69 on: November 25, 2021, 22:58:26 »
Got mine today, looks like another great project cpmpleted. Thanks to the Team that that organized and completed this project so skillfully!!!

ThankYou all !

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« Reply #70 on: November 29, 2021, 06:33:19 »
Got mine Today- Superb and many thanks to all responsible 8)

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« Reply #71 on: November 29, 2021, 15:24:00 »
Got mine today in the UK. Thank you to all involved in putting this together, and in arranging the distribution in the US and UK

It is a fabulous book !
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Re: Pagoda World Book - Volume II - Issues 11-20 - OPEN FOR ORDERING!!
« Reply #72 on: November 29, 2021, 18:12:53 »
Mine arrived today also. Another fantastic compilation and a real credit to all those involved. Thankyou.

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« Reply #73 on: November 29, 2021, 20:46:00 »
Hello everyone,

Yes, all the Aussie/PacRim books have been in the mail (as you can see from the occasional note here), as well as all the Canadian and UK.
Right now, like literally this moment--I'm preparing all the labels for the EU shipments. These will fly through the cloud to David Robinson in Ireland, and by the weekend I suspect that his conscripted children will help him get all of these to the smiling lady behind the AnPost counter at his local post office...

We did send one extra book to each international location in the event that a latecomer wants a book. We do have a small number here in the USA as well.
Michael Salemi
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« Reply #74 on: November 29, 2021, 23:07:03 »
I received my copy yesterday. Absolutely fantastic!

Appreciate the effort & commitment by all involved. What an amazing keepsake for our collections.

Franjo

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