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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ThomKing, post: 336727, member: 12371&quot;]<b>US Mint futures?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Glad to hear your order is moving along.&nbsp; One good story gives hope to the rest of us.&nbsp; Was yours a subscription?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Well I am certainly looking forward to my 2008 ASE.&nbsp; I burned too many hours on one coin.&nbsp; Turned into a major whiner.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You look at all of the gasoline stations in my area, and I think back when i used to pump gas after school.&nbsp; Some of the &#039;mom and pop&#039; stations in the area still have someone go outside and brave the elements, to change the prices.&nbsp; All of the other national stations converted over to digital price signs almost overnight.&nbsp; We watched one Mobil station change their price eleven times one weekend.&nbsp; I asked the station help about it and they said that they have no control over it anymore.&nbsp; The digital signs now receive their instructions from the headquarters, via their satelite link.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I read recently in Time or Newsweek about the trouble that the US Post Office still has trying to derive revenue.&nbsp; Unlike the US Mint, the post office has a lot of competition.&nbsp; The article I read went into detail about another cost cutter at the post office, which is to eliminate the rest of the mail boxes.&nbsp; I believe the maintenance number was somewhere in the tens of millions that would be saving each year.&nbsp; Next is to eliminate all of the stamp machines, making way for all stamps to either be generated over the computer or swiped at an office.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now with the US Mint they have no competition.&nbsp; They outsource their service desk and web site.&nbsp; I imagaine not too far down the road they are going to have to come up with a different means of pricing due to major fluxuations in precious metals.&nbsp; Their prices did not seem an issue to me until recently, they seem to be headed up quicker each year.&nbsp; They can outsource the warehouse, maybe.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They have told me about fourteen stories since November, each one with a bit of a twist, one in particular was racist, two or three were outright lies.&nbsp; I have no clue why anyone would go to the levels they have, except that there is confusion as to who is at the controls steering the ship.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>:desk:</p><p>Welll it would be boring without a few challenges along the way.&nbsp; Do you have other coins on order at this time, and if so has the availability dates changed or stayed the same all along like the ASE&#039;s?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What are your thoughts as to their pricing and marketing?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Their credibility took a turn with me with my subscriptions.&nbsp; Where else can they shave without losing their loyal customers?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks again for the update.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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