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Originally Posted by IBdrummer
Just a thought, I'm not completely up on the financial costs of international shipping or International Import Laws so I could very well be wrong.
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Well, but isn't this the point? How many of us know what it takes to get the KOPs shipped in a timely manner and guarantee that the teams receive them on time? I don't. I also don't work at FIRST and am not responsible for getting them to the teams, so I'm not going to say what FIRST should and should not do if I don't have my facts in order and know exactly what the procedure is and how that affects/impacts the delay for receiving the KOP.
We can vote in a poll as to what our opinion is, but how much of that vote is educated, knowledgeable, and based on facts - and how much of that is based on emotions?
I think the discussion is healthy but the poll won't work without sound information on which to base our votes. This has been a problem for a while now, and there have been rookie teams in other countries that have had to contend with receiving their KOP and sometimes, game pieces, late into the build season. One rookie team should not receive preferential treatment when others have had to contend with this same issue and have dealt with it and may have to continue to deal with it.
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Jane
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