The check is in the mail. I have Doug’s address saved, and need to support my daily CanoePorn habit. Bwa-ha-ha, something else in the mail for Doug’s bemusement. And for his wonderful mail lady to ponder on delivery.
I immensely enjoyed the past fund raiser raffles,
especially Robin’s shop videos of the blind draw, but I recognize that those raffles were a PITA to conduct, especially with folks paying postage to send donated raffle items to the site admin, and the admin then having to rebox and pay to ship “prizes” to the winners.
Incurring that shipper and re-shipper packaging and postage, and sometimes inter-Country postage and customs forms back and forth across the border twice, made zero fund raiser sense.
I have a raffle proposal for Doug. I made bunch of these UL weight (3 oz undressed) two-holer Canoe Consoles (and have more minicel blocks waiting in the wings), and will box and ship one directly, admin hands-free, to a raffle winner in the US.
PC191451 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
Not exactly the Tiffany’s of raffle prizes, but in-country shipping would be easy, cheap and un-Custom-form-ized.
And the boxed console would arrive with a Duckhead coozie and other lightweight geegaws items filling the voids; nylon pads eyes (ordered and used by the hundreds), weird slit-tennis ball line throwing weight, some pieces of (discontinued/unavailable) High Intensity reflective tape, maybe some unfinished half-truss seat or kneeling thwart drops depending on the winner’s outfitting desires.
Or some abrasive cord mistaken for cannon fuse. It would be fun to fill up a prize box with weird/handy got-lots-of shop stock.
In the name of equity this raffle plan would be dependent on someone north of the border contributing a raffle prize, and paying the postage to a Canadian recipient.
All the site admin would need to do is pull names from a hat (or from the grungy depths of the Almighty Coffee Pot) and PM a shipping name/address to the donatee to send off.