Better be supplied by them otherwise not much is happening :-)

One week delivery for £25 is pretty far fetched as it is; all
companies pad their postage something chronic - although on-line
retailers of specs are 100% honest and trustworthy ;-)

--- In bigfootmtb@yahoogroups.com, "markoverbars" <m_a_sayers@...>
wrote:
>
> Are they providing all promotional material (leaflets, banners,
> samples etc), or are they expecting us to cough up and set this up
> for them?
>
> And £100 for a next day courier!? who are they kidding. DHL would
> only cost about £25
>
> --- In bigfootmtb@yahoogroups.com, JANET CLARKE <clarkejanet@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andy
> > Sounds ok to me.
> > Janet
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Andrew Maddison <andrew@>
> > To: bigfootmtb@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, 14 May, 2008 11:49:09 AM
> > Subject: [bigfootmtb] Re: Curse of the Jersey...
> >
> > Just to let you guys know what's happening; I had an email from
the
> > Jersey peeps asking what we were going to offer in return for the
> > extra cost for the 24hr delivery.
> >
> > (Bit of background - normally delivery costs £25 and takes up to
a
> > week, because of the tight schedule in manufacture they are going
> to
> > have to use a 24hr courier costing £100 to get us the jerseys in
> time
> > for Bristol).
> >
> > I said we can:
> >
> > * Go around the campsite and distribute leaflets to the various
> clubs
> > * Leaflet communal areas such as the food tent
> > * Display a banner (if you have one) in our 'race village'
> > * Provide you with group photo's of the teams in their new kit
> > (perhaps
> > borrowing the podium)
> >
> > --- In bigfootmtb@yahoogro ups.com, "Andrew Maddison" <andrew@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > As you can see from the min's of the last meeting the Jersey
> > printers
> > > have said they will get us the jerseys in time for Bristol in
> return
> > > for a favour (say, distributing leaflets to the other teams
> etc.) -
> > to
> > > cover the extra cost of the delivery.
> > >
> > > Now I can see a few problems with this namely
> > >
> > > a) How do we define how much effort to put in to help them out
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > b) I've got to sort it out :-)
> > >
> > > Sooooo, having clocked that the club is cash rich I propose
> another
> > > option that we just pay them the extra delivery cost of £88.13
to
> > > remove us from any obligation and all be home in time for tea
and
> > medals.
> > >
> > > Your thoughts please peeps - I'm either after
> > >
> > > a) Give 'em some extra cash and everyone's happy
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > b) Yes please, I'd like to help out at Bristol giving out
> leaflets
> > and
> > > posing for group photo's in my new club kit...
> > >
> > > Andrew.
> > >
> >
>