It just struck me. Things have changed this last week because of the financial melt down so the WTS Real Estate is not worth as much. Why does printing have to be done in the US? Move out of Brooklyn Move your North American Printing to Canada (universal health care) so no aging Bethelite liability Move your European printing (and other) to Germany and London (universal health care) so no aging Bethelite liability Move all Asia Pacific to Australia - again healthcare good and cheap Just keep Gilead, Governing Body and a few others in Patterson and Walkill - all makes total sense
WT downsizing etc
by stillajwexelder 8 Replies latest social current
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Quandary
Let's not be giving them any ideas to help perpetuate their existence! lol
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garybuss
I have to think the corporation would have been much better off to do their building in Brooklyn. They have an empty square block there. When the city land was filled up they could have sought out other available prime building sites.
The Wallkill and Patterson communes are never gonna be sold for top dollar. They'd be extremely difficult to divide and they're huge as one parcel. Their potential buyers would be few and they probably won't be seeing multiple offers or auctions like they have in Brooklyn.
The Wallkill and Patterson communes obviously weren't built as investments. I still haven't figured out why they weren't built together unless it was to divide the parcels from each other and locate them so one property wouldn't compete with the other for future buyers. Even if that was the reason, they could have been located much closer together.
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stillajwexelder
the point is they do not need to print in the USA and the US branch can afford to down size even more
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stillajwexelder
the point is they do not need to print in the USA and the US branch can afford to down size even more
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passwordprotected
@garybuss - 10 tribes, 2 tribes?
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yknot
I believe most of the printing is being done in Canada now.
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daniel-p
The natural progression of this corporation is for them to outsource the printing. When the cost of printing their own literature exceeds what they would spend for someone else to do it, it'll become imperative that they do so. Their desire to survive is no different than the impulses of any other corporation. The only question is when. And that has to do with Bethelites becoming more and more costly (rising cost of health care, potential lawsuits from Bethelites), and the operations of running the religion becoming more costly (declining donations, pedo lawsuits).
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insearchoftruth
In order to improve cash flow (which often becomes a problem during a downturn), the two ideas with respect to printing make total sense. Outsourcing would remove a lot of the overhead costs the org presently has with maintenance of buildings, presses, insurance, utilities for the large facilities and even shipping if they outsource to a company that would handle the logistics.
Moving the main facilities to countries with universal healthcare would also help with overhead, because health insurance or health costs must be one of, if not the largest line item.
The one other option that has been floated on this site before is electronic delivery of the pamphlets where the individual KH would then bear the cost of the paper and ink to print. Would still need to have the books printed elsewhere, but this would decentralize the wts, awakes and other special pamphlets.