Comments on: Say It Ain’t So, PO http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:28:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Alma Alexander http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1073 Alma Alexander Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:10:53 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1073 If you need actual stamps, I could always buy some for you and send them along - let me know if you think the idea has merit. At least we could come to some mutually acceptable compromise as to remuneration, since I as an individual am considerably less restrained by red tape than is a Government agency of any stripe. If you need actual stamps, I could always buy some for you and send them along - let me know if you think the idea has merit. At least we could come to some mutually acceptable compromise as to remuneration, since I as an individual am considerably less restrained by red tape than is a Government agency of any stripe.

]]> By: Steve Buchheit http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1070 Steve Buchheit Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:38:59 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1070 Wow, we're back to having "business agents" in another country as a matter of course for business purposes. If only there were some way to transmit data across international borders relatively cheaply and quickly while saving money on hard copy and archaic postal delivery systems. Something like a network of some kind. And if only those people who might receive such transmissions would accept them and process them instead of insisting on technology and a business process that even the Amish find quaint these days. Oh, what brave new world that would be, and such people that would live there. Wow, we’re back to having “business agents” in another country as a matter of course for business purposes. If only there were some way to transmit data across international borders relatively cheaply and quickly while saving money on hard copy and archaic postal delivery systems. Something like a network of some kind. And if only those people who might receive such transmissions would accept them and process them instead of insisting on technology and a business process that even the Amish find quaint these days. Oh, what brave new world that would be, and such people that would live there.

]]> By: Chris Dolley http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1063 Chris Dolley Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:02:07 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1063 I forgot to mention option 5 - one I used successfully back in 2000 - and that's sell a short story to a US market and ask to be paid in stamps. I forgot to mention option 5 - one I used successfully back in 2000 - and that’s sell a short story to a US market and ask to be paid in stamps.

]]> By: Simon Haynes http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1062 Simon Haynes Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:23:25 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1062 (And the US Postal Service sent me a big glossy catalogue every two months for about 5 years after that!) (And the US Postal Service sent me a big glossy catalogue every two months for about 5 years after that!)

]]> By: Simon Haynes http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1061 Simon Haynes Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:22:45 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/20/say-it-aint-so-po/#comment-1061 I still have a few IRCs knocking about - I'd better use them up! I also have 16 US stamps left over from the time I bought 20 of them in 2001. They were for short story subs too. I still have a few IRCs knocking about - I’d better use them up!

I also have 16 US stamps left over from the time I bought 20 of them in 2001. They were for short story subs too.

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