Furniture is not covered under FDA regulations. I believe they are
free to label in metric-only already.
On 2007-05 -21, at 23:15 , STANLEY DOORE wrote:
Won't it be great when the government allows metric only labeling
so IKEA won't need to print and translate their metric stuff to
English units.?
Regards, Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Carleton MacDonald
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: [USMA:38743] Re: Meter stick woes
IKEA also does a very good job in their USA stores of hiding the
fact that all their products are metric. The shelf labels have all
this oddball fractions of inches stuff.
Carleton
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Robert Price
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 13:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:38742] Re: Meter stick woes
If all else fails you could try Ikea, if there is one near you.
They have a meter tape that is free to all customers.
This is not a wooden stick, but at least you would have a metric
measure.
Bob
----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 8:49:41 PM
Subject: [USMA:38732] Meter stick woes
Hi all,
I was wondering if any of you had any idea just where I could go to
acquire a nice (preferably wooden) meterstick. The reason I ask is
that my mother homsechooles both my sister and my brother and they
recently switched to using a curriculum from the UK that is of
course in all SI.
The previous curriculua they have used has had maths problems in a
mixture of USC and SI, and so getting used to the SI only measures
has not been a problem for either one of the kids. However, many
fruitless trips around town has led me to believe that the
meterstick must be one rare measurement animal in the US.
My grandmother had a meterstick that she got while in Tahiti in
1982 but someone appears to have thrown it out long ago.
Any ideas?
Mike
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