Melbourne Toy Run - Cranbourne meet point and Ulysses club [long]

Splitter!

-----sharks

 

I thought you *were* all the GPX250 owners of Australia...


Postman Pat

 

Sigh! Banks, Tax office, Telstra and other idiots.
I know that one

I usta work with that bunch of monkeys doing the virgin helpdesk thing,
and to be honest im not suprised you've had such a wrought, it was a
pack of polava back then, and from all accounts it's just as crapola now.
Virgin, Hutchison, why do i find such fucked out employers?

Send me the money!! i'll "dispose" of it adequately.

Try abusing them numerous times. or start living in a tent, it may be what the house is
made from, double brick perchance?

See you there!

Mike.S

 

The ATM I stuck my card in said "Card has been reported lost or

Cancelled is cancelled, the system doesnt diffientiate between a stolen card
or a terminated account. As far as the ATM cares the card number isn't valid
anymore so it's cancelled.

Mike.S

 

"Mike.S" wrote

That IMHO makes the programmer an idiot. I went into the branch and
said the ATM says my card has been reported stolen. She said 'did you
report it stolen'. I said 'I'm reporting it stolen NOW, your bloody
machine just stole it'.

If the ATM had said your card has been cancelled I might have twigged.

Theo

 

One of many... The others are detailed in the book "Westpac: The bank that
broke the bank" by Edna Carew.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

He hates you *SO* much Pat.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Does it really matter who meets where, who rides where and who finishes
where as long as needy kids end up with the toys?

Or do you think all the other victorian out of Melbourne toy runs like
Ballarat, Bendigo and others are somehow different to Cranbourne?

Personally I have always thought it a bit odd that people ride 50 kms from
Cranbourne into the city when they could organise thier own run *shrug*

YMMV

Geoff and Jodie

 

If you weren't kin, I'd have you beaten up!


BTH

 

I called my wrecker the other day to make sure he had some bits I
needed (front tyre, brake pads, battery). When I arrived a few hours
later the tyre was labelled "Ben - GPX250 Guy".


BTH

 

By that logic, why not just donate the toys directly to the charities,
and avoid the run altogether?

For better or worse, people like a bit of an "event" to go with their
charity. Consider telethons, fund-raising concerts or dinners,
sponsoring of "awareness raising" events like push-bike treks, etc.

The simple fact of the matter is that the bigger the event, the bigger
the likely contributions. Therefore, anything that dilutes the "event"
has an impact.

I'm not saying it is good that things are like that, but by my
observation, they are.

Mark.

 

A decade or so back, when the salvos were the recipients, the outer suburban
branches used to complain that while they had a large proportion of the
disadvantaged people in the community in their areas, very few of the toy run
donations would actually make it out to them. So a club I was associated with
at the time, the MCRCV, started collecting and donating directly to the Fern
Tree Gully branch.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

.... and think of all those disadvantaged kids in Reefton, and
along the Great Ocean Road!

-----sharks

 

Hence the expression "That far kin Postman Pat!"


Postman Pat

 

The Toy Run collections go into a large storage/clearing warehouse along
with all other donations that the Smith Family (or relevant charity) gets,
including businesses, charity bins, society groups (APEX, Firefighters,
etc.). Even the collections made in regional area's go to the central
collection warehouse. From there, all their holdings is evaluated for
'worthiness' and bundled into kits/packages applicable for the number and
types of groups/people that will be the recipients. Then they are shipped
back to the local and regional area's the relevant quantities depending
upon what the local charity group requests it needs.

Sounds double handling, but it is indeed the most efficient method for them.
So no matter where you drop a donation, it all ends up in the same place
and could be distributed widely. Even interstate warehouses are sometime
sending stocks to another state to even/balance out the requirements if
they are considerably lower in another state. You donation at the office
collection or MRA collection could end up going to a kid in Cairns or
Hobart.


Cheers,
Jason

 

That logic is often mentioned around the Bendigo Toy run... years ago one
used to see a largish number of Bendigo area bikes wandering down to the
Melbourne toy run, but there is a regular turn out for the Bendigo one.

Not to say I do not sometimes go to the Melbourne one myself, but I do
find myself wondering what the distrubution break up is... and how many
donations get much further than 30 mins from the CBD.


Geoff and Jodie