(meteorobs) RE: The IMO

[Malcolm J. Currie]

> I am writing to ask if anyone on this list is also a member of the IMO?  The

Robert,

> both Robert Lunsford (four times) and to the head of the IMO, with
> absolutely no response from either person as of todays date.

I'm dismayed to learn of your difficulties.  Did you mail to the IMO
e-mail addresses or directly to the persons concerned?  There was a time
where mail to the <whatever>@imo.net were disabled because of spam.
However, you've used snail mail too.  Bob is normally very responsive.
I suspect Bob has contacted Ina Rendtel and is awaiting a reply...

My 2005 WGNs arrived reasonably promptly from Germany.  The last had the
imaging theme.

While I was working in America, my air-mail subscriptions were sent by
surface, and that takes a couple of months longer.  It took some e-mails
to get this corrected.

The envelopes IMO uses aren't up to the job for thicker publications.
I don't know what happens to them in Germany; the sides are usually
split to some degree by they time they arrive.  The last IMC Proceedings
barely made it, and I've had another wrapped in a bag courtesy of our
Royal Mail.  That's just going from Germany to the UK.  If you've a
package being sent across the Atlantic too, it's handled more and so
subject to disintegration.

IMO needs to invest in those strengthened envelopes (Tyvek?) with the
thin webbing.  It might increase the cost slightly, but it's better that
than the publications being lost in the post or arriving damaged.

Malcolm Currie