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Dale53 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 810 Location: Southwestern Ohio Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	I received my regular copy of the Journal! Sep 12^th, 2005 at 5:26pm	Print Post
	Well, I received my regular copy of the Journal today. That should mean that most everyone either has it or will have it shortly. Even Ken Hurst beat me . Enjoy! Dale53

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xxgrampa Ex Member	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #1 - Sep 13^th, 2005 at 3:40pm	Print Post
	not me.. i'm still waiting.. ttfn..grampa..

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singelshotman Ex Member	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #2 - Sep 13^th, 2005 at 8:24pm	Print Post
	I am still waiting, too- does the pony express carry magazines? I guess they send it surface mail to california, all i know is it takes forever to get here.

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KWK Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 402 Location: USA Joined: Jul 12^th, 2004	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #3 - Sep 14^th, 2005 at 4:18am	Print Post
	Got mine last week -- in Australia.

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dws8130 Ex Member	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #4 - Sep 14^th, 2005 at 7:14am	Print Post
	In Kalifornistan I imagine it takes 3 or 4 months to get an American Rifleman or any gunrag yunless the send it in an anonymous unmarked plain brown envelope---or would that be against the law there too. seriously, Sending the Journals out is a significant problem and one that I hope to review, once we get the J back on schedule, and our advertising billing and revenues straightened out. As it is we are mailing at the best compromise of speed and cost possible. All are mailed within a one or two day time span from Amherst Junction, Wisconsin. After that it is the tender hands of the USPS. My understanding is that faster service is possible but at much higher cost and while some could probably afford it, a multi-tier mailing system is just not managable with our vounteer staff. Each month the membership chairman (ASST) has to prepare an updated mailing list for the printer to mail from; double checking for address changes (a real problem area), additions,and expirations; and then get the properly formatted list to the printer at a precise time in the production schedule. Another obvious issue is of course the instantanious gratification of the email world. If it wasn't for forums like this you guys would not know when the USPS was delivering them elsewhere. I know that most of the "reporting" on when your issue arrives is more in the nature of good natured gloating or whining--least I hope it is. If any of you have serious issues I hope you address them directly to me DWS

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Asst Ex Member	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #5 - Sep 14^th, 2005 at 8:54am	Print Post
	After a long and intense investigation , compiling many weeks of data, I am still at a loss for how the USPS works. The printer asked for the mailing list Aug., 22 and got it that same day, that is my normal practice. They get it processed , and that is how they schedule their run. It gives them how many and the costs etc. Once they run them they are sorted by zips, or districts of the USPS. The printed SSRJ's are loaded onto a contractor truck and they are taken to the district P.O., where they do what with them I do not know. I am not sure they get to the P.O. right away either. I have had guys in CA get theirs with in days of them getting picked up, and got mine 8 weeks later. The reason the ones get over seas first is because they go a different postage rate. Like $7.00 each, yep that much. What is funny, the USPS machines will tear the covers off and the USPS delivers the cover..... minus the mag. They done their job good so they figure. I have even had SSRJ's returned for insufficient address..........there were actually one number added to the address so that local letter carrier was to dumb to see the name and sent it back. Each letter carrier does sort their own routes. Not all USPS employees are this way, I have gotten mail in my box with the old Rural Route numbers on it, and they were the wrong numbers, but the P.O. folks know it comes to me. There are real advantages to living in Bohunkville, USA. (rural America) And yes I will be happy when we get back on a schedule......

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Dale53 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 810 Location: Southwestern Ohio Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #6 - Sep 14^th, 2005 at 10:57am	Print Post
	DWS; >>>I know that most of the "reporting" on when your issue arrives is more in the nature of good natured gloating or whining--least I hope it is.<<< If I complain because I haven't yet received my Journal it is "Whining" and I am jealous (but really NOT complaining). . If I mention that I have received mine, I am not "gloating" but am telling the other folks that it is truly "on the way" (and I am HAPPY ) and they can hopefully be encouraged. Dale

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trapdoor1888 Participating Member Offline Posts: 32 Location: winchester virginia Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2005	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #7 - Sep 15^th, 2005 at 9:25am	Print Post
	Copy arrived in Northern Virginia yesterday afternoon

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dws8130 Ex Member	Re: I received my regular copy of the Journal! Reply #8 - Sep 15^th, 2005 at 7:03pm	Print Post
	Dale, I know you would never gloat------------very much or whine for that matter the internet has really spoiled us in terms of it's immediacy, in a surprisingly few years. For me at least, waiting for what used to be normal surface communications and shipping seems interminable and I find myself paaying extra for Priority and Express mail and shipping----some thing I owuld have never "wasted" money on a few short years ago but maybe as I am getting older time seems to have more value and I hate wasting it waiting.

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