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Conference rusure::nintendo

Title:Nintendo Game Systems
Notice:Please enter Super NES notes in Yuppy::Super_NES.
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Tue Oct 20 1987
Last Modified:Mon Feb 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:847
Total number of notes:11602

379.0. "Pros & Cons of MAILING GAMES" by MOMAX1::PILOTTE (It just keeps getting better!) Thu Dec 28 1989 09:35

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                       -< Nintendo Entertainment System >-
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Note 3.802                  For Sale, Trade or Wanted                 802 of 806
TEMPEL::CASEY                                        27 lines  27-DEC-1989 15:56
                     -< Don't rely on inter-office mail! >-
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    A note of caution to those buying and selling games:
    
    I would strongly advise AGAINST sending games through inter-office
    mail.
    
    Why? Because I sent out seven games (5 on Dec 8th and 2 on Dec 11th).
    As of today December 27, not a single person has received their
    game. 
    
    The games were sent out of APO (Andover, Ma) to other locations
    in Massachusetts. They were wrapped in bubble wrap and put in those
    yellow envelopes.
    
    I have received payment from all parties using the same method 
    of mail.
    
    My mail office and the central distrubution center in Northboro
    claim to have no undelivered mail to the people I sent the games
    to.
    
    Hope you can learn from my mistake
    
    Mark
    
    P.S. Has anyone else had this experience?
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379.1MOMAX1::PILOTTEIt just keeps getting better!Thu Dec 28 1989 09:3518
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Note 3.803                  For Sale, Trade or Wanted                 803 of 806
39409::OGREN                                         11 lines  27-DEC-1989 16:22
                        -< Re: .-1, Yes it does happen >-
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    Yes, I've also had a game (not Nintendo) disappear in Interoffice
    mail. In this case, a friend picked up some replacement pieces to
    a soccer game and tried to use internal mail from London. Fortunately
    the pieces were not very expensive as they never showed.
    
    It probably is inappropriate to use Digital mail for personal business
    anyway. It's a good idea to use US Mail. It is about $1.05 to mail
    a Nintendo cartridge - you may want to factor that into the price
    of the game.
    
    Eric
379.2exMOMAX1::PILOTTEIt just keeps getting better!Thu Dec 28 1989 09:358
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Note 3.804                  For Sale, Trade or Wanted                 804 of 806
POCUS::OHARA "Go Giants!!"                             1 line  27-DEC-1989 21:22
                                  -< Me too >-
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    Re: Minus last 2
379.3MOMAX1::PILOTTEIt just keeps getting better!Thu Dec 28 1989 09:3615
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Note 3.805                  For Sale, Trade or Wanted                 805 of 806
BRAT::SMITH "Never say never, I always say."          8 lines  28-DEC-1989 07:16
                      -< I use Magtape boxes & wide tape >-
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    	re: last 3
    
    	Whenever I "mail" anything more substantial than a few sheets
    	of paper, I use a Magtape box and lots of 2-inch tape to seal
    	it shut.
    
                                                                 Mike
379.4They do not "track" Interoffice mail.CASPRO::MINEZZIThu Dec 28 1989 09:538
    
    I had the same thing happen when attempting to trade a game, I recieved
    their game, but they did not get mine...looks like there is a Nintendo
    finatic in the mail system, if you ask me....
    
    Use US Mail, and insure it.
    
    Ron.
379.5OURGNG::J_WARDLECome with me to the CashBahThu Dec 28 1989 12:317
    It costs $1.45 to mail it first class U.S. mail.
    
    Interoffice has never been reliable for any mail.
    
    It's worth $1.45
    
    Jim
379.6Me too!TROC01::WALDNERThu Dec 28 1989 21:4516
Hear, Hear!

  I too have suffered the loss of a fine game, SMB-II, in the mail.  I have
an extra twist of trying to mail across the Canada-USA border.  I mailed two
games to destinations in the Boston area and sent one first-class mail, insured
and all.  The second was not such a rush and was sent overland.

  Guess what?  The overland, uninsured game never arrived.  My son, 10-year-old
Dan, was extremely upset over the loss and we have vowed not to repeat this
type of thing.  Certainly internal mail will have nothing whatsoever to do with
inter-office mail of this sort and returned several attempts with customs and
duty forms.

  Flame on!   NEVER AGAIN !!!!!   Flame off!!!   (Ahhhh that felt good)

Frank