@IsaacMoses what projections does Staples make about delivery time? I've never ordered printing online before (and when we started I had assumed you would have to pick it up at a local shop, but apparently not).

I may yet order it for local pickup, so that there's someone local I can bother if necessary, and so that there's less chance of wrong delivery or falling into some sort of "signature required" bad loop.

B"H I have a vehicle I can use to move the stuff with no problem.

@IsaacMoses and a work schedule that allows you to go there during business hours if need be.

@MonicaCellio Uhh. Dunno about that. But the stores are usually open after normal business hours (e.g. 9pm weekdays for at least one local one)

@IsaacMoses I may have misunderstood something, sorry. I thought you had enough flexibility around commuting hours that if you had to do something in person either before or after the work day you could. Anyway, no matter -- as you point out, they're open in the evenings and presumably on Sundays too.

top of p27 breaks the style guidelines, writing "Lev" (no period even!) instead of "Leviticus".

p33, 4th para -- "linked article" --> "referenced article"

A bit late for this, and just tossing it out, but it might make sense to switch the order of kiddush on YK and bentching on YK, as the first already mentions the answer to the second (say yaaleh v'yavoh). If it messes up the formatting, just forget about it.

p37 footnote 1 - "Scherman, Nosson, and Meir Zlotowitz". This sounds like 3 people. Since the other footnotes use the "lastname, firstname" format, i would use it here too: "Scherman, Nosson, and Zlotowitz, Meir".

p39 - some of the line spacing looks weird. Look at the heights:

p39 - the footnote reference to 1 is not in superscript

Any reason i'm not on the distributors list?

If i didn't say so before, i agree with Monica's reordering of the donor section.

@Scimonster Thanks for these last-minute corrections. It would have been a shame to print hundreds of copies with some of these errors in there. Also, it's probably better in various ways that I didn't work on this last night.

@MonicaCellio No problem. No; most days, I ride public transit to work, and while I have flexibility to walk around quite an interesting city during my lunch break, I won't be bringing home any 28800 sheets of 24# paper on the train. :)

@Scimonster that feels a little informal to me, and I'd rather not force informality on an OP.

@Scimonster Oops. I thought I'd caught all of those.

@Scimonster Sorry! You can guess how that error happened. No excuse, though.

@MonicaCellio Based on my research, it appears that stamps.com doesn't offer any important services that can't be gotten elsewhere, for free. USPS themselves offer Click-N-Ship for printing your own postage as well as Carrier Pickup so you don't have to go to the post office to drop off.

... C-N-S doesn't do Media Mail, but (surprise!) Paypal offers postage-printing as a free service, including for Media Mail.

... Media Mail by itself doesn't qualify for Carrier Pickup, whether you set it up through stamps.com or directly through USPS, but: "Your carrier will also pick up packages sent by ... Media Mail ... if there is at least one Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express or approved International package in your shipment. There is no limit to the number of packages you may send via Carrier Pickup, although the maximum weight per package is 70 pounds."

So all I have to do is make sure that one package per pickup is the pricier kind. There's one donor incentive going international, so that's going to be the ticket for the other 300+-pounds, the largest of which will be ~60 pounds. That means either doing it all in the one shot or, if I want/have to break it up, sending other donor incentives by Priority Mail instead of First Class. I'll try to do the former, though.

And I'll probably leave a (probably illegal) tip of some sort for the mail carrier who has to pick the whole business up.

I mean, it's normal to put out a gift for them around New Years, right?

Stamps.com advertises that they'll send you a scale as a gift for signing up, but the scale is only a 5-pound one, I think, and anyway, the resolution on the rate table for Media Mail is in pounds, and we have good numbers on how much 24# paper weighs, so I can estimate to within a pound without a scale.

@IsaacMoses Anything worth up to $20 is okay except cash or something equivalent to and exchangeable for cash (e.g. a Visa giftcard; it seems a specific-store giftcard that cannot be exchanged for cash is okay). Source, source.

@IsaacMoses Perhaps you should give him/her a havdala candle. :-)

@msh210 Oh. Thanks. Good to know that I didn't just telegraph in public that I was going to commit a crime / induce my mail carrier to violate company policy.

@msh210 (From your second link): "A Starbucks gift card and cheerful travel mug." Sounds like the sort of thing that would go over well with most people.

@IsaacMoses I feel like i've seen it a lot, but i guess i don't read too much formal writing. :)

@Scimonster Thanks for looking that up

How many copies are we planning to print now? I've lost track.

@Scimonster Core: 1200. with color-printed covers. Israel: 25, or as many as you can, at the quality you see fit (preferably similar to core), within NIS 320

@IsaacMoses So, 46 BW pages + color cover. 2 side staples. Sounds good.

@IsaacMoses How am i going to get the money?

@Scimonster @MonicaCellio is receiving the Jewcr money, so between her and you, you need to figure out a way to transfer it. That may be best handled off-line. If you've got an email address associated privately with your SE account, Monica could look it up and initiate off-line contact by emailing you, if that's OK with you.

@IsaacMoses I believe @MonicaCellio has my email already, so please email me, at your convenience.

@Scimonster FWIW, the core copies are going to be on 24# paper. Oh, you're probably printing on A4. Do the margins come out OK?

@IsaacMoses I better check that. Get back to you soon.

@IsaacMoses I'm pretty much out of ink, but it looks like it does. Not sure though, because the bottom is cut off and i can't tell if it's because it ran out of room or it ran out of ink.

Does anyone else have A4 paper and a functioning printer that can test print a single page? I used the first content page (p4 of the PDF), because it's full and has lots of formatting things (3 kinds of headers, footnote, separator) that can be seen.

@TRiG, I think, prints on A4. ^^^

@IsaacMoses nice -- and, as you say, we have an international package to send anyway. I do feel sorry for the guy who'll be sent to pick it up, and I wish it were legal to leave a bigger tip.

@IsaacMoses and perhaps you have a bathroom scale, too. But I agree: the weights are pretty deterministic anyway.

@IsaacMoses and it'd be hard to assign a dollar value to, say, a plate of home-baked cookies.

@Scimonster will do. Done.

@IsaacMoses The draft I printed previously came out fine on A4.

@TRiG Thanks. @Scimonster, I expect that the slightly-more-closely-spaced version will be just as good.