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Jake Debski

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Has anyone received the latest edition of the Journal? I saw copies of it at our local woodworking store. In the past I've had mine a week or two before I noticed them at the store. Just curious. :cool2:
 
It is really a great issue. Plus it is great that we will be getting the sharpening DVD for renewals. Thanks AAW!
 
Still waiting for mine in Western MD... my buddies got theirs in Eastern MD and Virginia, but not me... I think the USPS just passed over this little farming burg.. 🙁 🙁 either that or there is a new woodturner at the local PO...
Starting to get desparate... running out of reading material...
 
From sunny California. A friend of mine about 20 miles away received his on Saturday. I have not received mine yet. It always seems to get here much later than most.
Hugh
 
I received mine a full week before a friend who lives 20 miles away got his! Strange how that happens.
 
It wasn't the AAW Journal, but a neighbor and I both subscribe to Wood. Usually we get them delivered the same day, but one issue his was delivered 3 weeks after mine.

JimQ
 
JimQ said:
It wasn't the AAW Journal, but a neighbor and I both subscribe to Wood. Usually we get them delivered the same day, but one issue his was delivered 3 weeks after mine.

JimQ
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Jim,

I don't know of a single magazine that doesn't use a bulk-mailing fulfillment company to handle distribution, and I would be surprized if the AAW did not do so as well. After all, Phil Brennen's not sitting at home licking stamps here [are you Phil?]. Such companies take the publications from the printers, mate them with a supplied mailing list, and can even batch-dispatch them through several bulk mailing centers and regional facilities, which would account for difference in delivery times. Remember too, this is all bulk rate 4th class mail.

Here's an example : http://www.mfsanet.org/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

If, however, the AAW is getting a sufficient number of complaints, there are bunches of such filfillment outfits around, and they should look for alternatives.

M

[I got mine 2 weeks ago 😛 ]
 
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I noticed the current issue in my local Woodcraft Supply store one week prior to receiving my copy. Though not a big issue, I would think members would have some priority over the commercial outlets.
 
Yeah but...................

Mark Mandell said:
Jim,

................................. Remember too, this is all bluk rate 4th class mail.


we be first class Folks!!! 🙄 Got my copy in yesterday's mail. 😀 😉
It truly is the little things, isn't it??
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Jake Debski said:
we be first class Folks!!! 🙄 Got my copy in yesterday's mail.
It truly is the little things, isn't it??
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"All things come to . . . . ."
"It's not the Earth the meek inherit, it's the dirt."

Jake, its good to hear that you can now get on with your life. 😀 😀


Mark
 
JimQ said:
It wasn't the AAW Journal, but a neighbor and I both subscribe to Wood. Usually we get them delivered the same day, but one issue his was delivered 3 weeks after mine.
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Certain classes of mail are delivered not as they arrive, but at the convenience of the carrier. It's probably better in urban areas where the routes are compact, but out here magazines are delivered only on days that higher-paid junk mail doesn't arrive because of their bulk.

Of course, UPS only comes out here twice a week, too.
 
Oh, I understand how bulk rate magazines are handled. They are bundled by the servicing company by zip code, and trucked to regional mail sorting facilities. The bundles do not get split until they reach the Post Office for the zip code that they are addressed to. My friend is on the same mail route that I am, and they should have been put in the system on the same day. Somehow his copy got misbundled, and had to be re sent through to the correct PO.

JimQ
 
Me Too!

I wanted to use the Fall journal as a guide for making an entry for the goblet contest. Today is 2-October and no journal. Oh well, out-a-site, out-a-mind.... -Allen (Note: I hope the distribution isn't done alphabetically)

Addendum: My journal was delivered this morning (10/3/2005)...FYI
 
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Oct. 2nd. Don't have mine as yet. But got lot's of wood from Katrina.

Got a fella with a mill sawing pine at my place but I'm gett'in too old to be pulling slabs and stacking 12' 2X6's and keeping the logs skidded to the mill.

Got some Beech and Poplar for bowls too.

Bill
 
From the sounds of one post - I should not have complained to the Postmaster about my route carrier. If it is up to the carrier as to when the magazine is delivered then I am out of luck. It is Oct. 3 and I have not received my copy of the Journal. Maybe the problem is that my wife gets so many catalogs the carrier does not have room for my copy of the Journal every three months.
Hugh
 
Hugh said:
From the sounds of one post - I should not have complained to the Postmaster about my route carrier. If it is up to the carrier as to when the magazine is delivered then I am out of luck. It is Oct. 3 and I have not received my copy of the Journal. Maybe the problem is that my wife gets so many catalogs the carrier does not have room for my copy of the Journal every three months.
Hugh
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Hugh, I have never complained about my carrier, and I still don't have my copy yet either. I have, however, complained about the AAW, so who knows what nefarious plot may be afoot to prevent me from seeing all the glory of the AAW Journal. Then again, it may have been chewed up by vermin. 😀

Bill
 
The AAW actively monitors all the complainers and whiners with regards to the magazine. The AAW takes that list and puts the complainers at the end of the printing run. Then that last box of magazines get hand labeled instead of machine labeled to ensure that it takes more time. After that the whole box is shipped to Alaska and then the postage stamps are hand applied (because it takes longer), and the magazines are put on a truck.

This whole process is meant to ensure parity is introduced into the printing and distribution process.

(Just in case someone actually takes this seriously....it isn't.) I'm just glad that people want the magazine so bad that they are just dying to get it!!! I always look forward to my copy too.
 
Jeff Jilg said:
The AAW actively monitors all the complainers and whiners with regards to the magazine. The AAW takes that list and puts the complainers at the end of the printing run. Then that last box of magazines get hand labeled instead of machine labeled to ensure that it takes more time. After that the whole box is shipped to Alaska and then the postage stamps are hand applied (because it takes longer), and the magazines are put on a truck.
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Jeff, if this were really the process, mine would be shot full of holes, sent to a radioactive waste dump for seasoning, and then delivered strapped to a rock through the front window! I do hope it comes today though.

Bill
 
Bill,
I saw a mule-pulled mail wagon heading towards INEEL Pit 9 with a couple boxes of magazines. I suppose they will get to cook-off for a few days (weeks, fortnights, years, millennia, eons, half-lives?) before they pick them up for delivery.
Bill Boehme
 
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