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Got my journal today

Jeff Myroup

Jeff Myroup

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Just to let everyone know my journal showed up today. No damage. Looks good. Got to go have some reading to do.:cool2:

Jeff
 
in the mail

i received my American Woodturner today, thanks to Gary Clarke for the tip about the pockets (my sister is constructing me my first woodturning smock :cool2: and i sent her an email in bold and large type)

my journel was in excellant condition
 
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Got mine yesterday in perfect condition. Almost-innocent bribery helps, I guess. I gave my letter carrier a pair of birdhouse earrings for his wife. Google ["birdhouse earrings procedure"], with quotes to marry the keywords, for what and how.

Joe
 
Got mine today, dog eared and beat to death. Looks like it was put in a blender.
 
It's Here!!!

Mine arrived today in southern Maryland (20601). The lower right corner of all pages are dog-eared and the back cover has seen better days,,but all-in-all it's usable.;)

What was the cost of Poly-bagging the Fall issue anyway?:rolleyes:
 
Still waiting for mine but I did get my issue of Woodturning. It comes in a plastic cover and the magazine was still torn. Even the best methods fail if the mail carriers don't care.
 
Hi john,

I got mine on Friday (Brentwood, TN) in good condition for a change. By the way John, I used to be a dept. chair at TTU, we need to get together one day...

Chris
 
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I recieved mine yesterday. It was in mint condition. The postman must not have seen anything he liked in this issue. :D

GA Darling
 
The mail system clearly needs QC help.

john lucas said:
Still waiting for mine but I did get my issue of Woodturning. It comes in a plastic cover and the magazine was still torn. Even the best methods fail if the mail carriers don't care.
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You are 100% correct john, I've had opportunities to visit our main PO and seen how they move the mail from hamper to hamper as they sort the items to their mail routs. The only thing worse I think is the machinery that can't see or feel what it's doing. :(

I would vote for anything that would protect the AW in rout. But we would probably have another person on the moon, or the cure for the common cold before something fool proof was invented. Mean while, I'll take what I can get and enjoy every page of it.:D

Cheers
 
Chris I'm going to try real hard to go to the next TAW meeting at the Bapbist childrens home. I've missed a lot of the meetings this year. When did you leave Tech? I've been here 20 years.
 
Mine came today well folded also... sigh

I suspect the damage isn't happening at the local PO, but earlier in the shipping process.
 
AAW Journal is Here!

Journal arrived here in the Canadian Prairies today - in beautiful mint condition. But, with a giant white label stuck smack in the middle of Jim Partridge's "Chunk" on the front cover. The label obliterates almost 1/3 of the picture. It is some sort of return requested mailing instructions. I have no idea who stuck it there. Bloody awful.

For us woodturners, these magazines/journals are a resource and are long term "keepers". The workers in the postal system probably don't see them as different from any of the other disposable magazines or catalogs they handle so they are not careful with them.

Previous issues have arrived torn and soaked so please add my vote for YES for poly mailing covers. ET
 
Mine came today in mint condition and we had rain all day. How did that happen. I do save all my magazines and really enjoy it when they come in good condition.
 
Finally, and well torn

Tuesday arrival.
Back badly torn, many beaten up pages.
Yep, I vote the poly bags.

T-Bird
 
the debate

This thread gets started because there has been a recent debate about poly bags for the journal to keep them protected and intact. Most of mine make it in good shape, but it's a real pain when you're missing half of three or four pages. One of the board members is considering a proposal of this idea.
 
Pilot Dave said:
This thread gets started because there has been a recent debate about poly bags for the journal to keep them protected and intact. Most of mine make it in good shape, but it's a real pain when you're missing half of three or four pages. One of the board members is considering a proposal of this idea.
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tthat will be a reason to raise the dues AGAIN
 
It's about something special

jjkingjr said:
I don't get it. It seems like every quarter just before the Journal is about to be released someone starts a thread like this. What's the purpose? I just don't get it. - John
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I think what you are witnessing is expressions of disappointment when something we treasure, and look forward to, arrives damaged.

The Journal is a very valuable resource to a lot of us and, yes, we would pay extra to protect it.

I for one would greatly appreciate whatever the AW staff can do to outwit the Postal Service.

AW - Can I put Poly-Bags on my Christmas wish list?? :D
 
My issue arrived yesterday, and it is scuffed and ruffed-up around the edges and across the front. I think that the membership cost is already hi enough to support a protective paper cover or poly-bag. It also appeared to have been "read" a bit.
Gil
 
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