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|    August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    made vs manufactured    |
|    12 Sep 21 08:55:00    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.21@fidonet f45f430f       REPLY: 2:280/464 613de6c5       PID: OpenXP/5.0.50 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Wilfred!              ** On Sunday 12.09.21 - 13:36, you wrote to Richard Miles:               RM>> My guess is that it's cheaper to ship parts and raw        RM>> materials to China and have them assemble them and ship        RM>> back.               WvV> And that is changing, now that shipping costs have gone        WvV> tenfold in some cases. Businesses are looking into        WvV> getting their products manufactured closer to home...              There *does* seem to be a modest shift to "manufactured" and        "printed" domestically wrt books.              I should tally that info and see how the trend is progressing.              Sometimes I shudder and quake in my shoes when I see souvenir        products like postcards, fridge magnets, keychains, etc,        labelled with my Canadian town, but the small print is "Made in        China". The China labelling just seems wrong, especially for        products that you expect to retain as souvenirs of a Canadian        visit.       --        ../|ug       --- OpenXP 5.0.50        * Origin: Mobile? Join CHAT here: https://tinyurl.com/y5k7tsla (1:153/757.21)       SEEN-BY: 30/0 80/1 103/705 105/81 124/5016 129/305 134/100 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/802 7715 203/0 221/0 1 6 229/426 428 450 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 261/38 280/464 282/464 1038 292/8125 301/0 1 101       SEEN-BY: 301/113 812 310/31 322/757 341/66 396/45 423/120 460/58 712/848       SEEN-BY: 920/1 5058/104       PATH: 153/757 280/464 301/1 229/426           |
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