Kevin's Delivery Service

[kevin_standlee]

Through a confusion during Worldcon load-out, the printer that kproche and bovil brought up to Renovation accidentally got shuffled to the wrong place and ended up in Renovation's stuff, not back with Kevin and Andy. Once the location of the missing printer was settled, the question was how to get it back where it belong. What ended up happening was that the person who had it (in Fallon), who had reason to be in Fernley, dropped it off at the Fernley House, then I collected it from Lisa this past weekend and carried it back to the Bay Area, where I delivered it to Kevin & Andy at BASFA last night. It was slower than shipping it, but there was no marginal cost for anyone, since all of us involved in this particular chain were going that way anyway. As supply-chain management is what I do for a living, I'm pleased when things work out this conveniently.

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I'm also willing to bet the printer was handled with better care by fans than by any shipping company. Three cheers for Kevin's delivery service!

[kproche.livejournal.com]

We were (obviously) pleased, too :-)

[nojay.livejournal.com]

I dubbed that process the Fannish Underground Railroad. There are probably similar processes in other fandoms and extended interest groups such as the SCA. I know of someone, an armourer, down in Southern England who got a farm-sale anvil delivered that way all the way from Aberdeen. It passed through three or four sets of hands over a period of several months before it got to where it was supposed to be but it wasn't in any hurry.

[travelswithkuma.livejournal.com]

cheers fors kevins