Still waiting, as usual, for my AAW mag

[Ed Sandle]

It has now been almost a month since Betty said the magazines have been put in the mail, and as usual, I have yet to recieve mine. Please don't tell me how lucky I am, that I can now view online, what I am supposed to recieve in a reasonable time in the mail, as I do not feel lucky, and have no interest in having to go online to read what I have paid for in print. There are many, many, woodturning articles, and videos that I am able to read and view on the web for free. I cannot remember having reieved my AAW mag sooner than two weeks after most everyone else on the forum, is talking about the articles they have read in there new issue. If the magazines are for some reason, mailed out by the spelling of your last name, as some have suggested they are, then I think it's time that we reverse that order and quit punnishing those of us with last names that start near the end of the alphabet. If I remember correctly, Betty said, the AAW has no control over the length of delivery for bulk mail at the postal service, Well, after not recieving my magazine today, I went and had a talk to the person at our little post office, and they said there is no way that it would take almost a month to get a magazine to my mailbox. If the magazine arriving late were only once in awhile, it would be no big deal, but this just seems to be business as usual to my mail box.

 

[Mark Mandell]

Know any turners in the post office?😉

[No, I'm going to reopen the contest]

ps: You'd best send this to Betty and/or the main office. Did you check the address on the last issue/ A typo in the zip code can delay things for weeks or months.

 

[Ed Davidson]

I don't think there is anyone here who can help you with that. Suggest you contact the St Paul office...

American Association of Woodturners
222 Landmark Center
75 5th St. W.
St. Paul, MN 55102
(877) 595-9094 toll free
(651) 484-9094
(651) 484-1724 (fax)

email: inquiries@woodturner.org

 

[Roger Chandler]

My copy actually came about 4 days after Betty mentioned it on the forum this month. Last issue was waaaaayyyyyy late! I was beginning to wonder if I was even going to get it, but it came about a month after it was reported as being sent out.

 

[john lucas]

I would contact Betty or the main office. I usually get mine within a week or so of everyone else.

 

[Betty Scarpino]

It has now been almost a month since Betty said the magazines have been put in the mail, and as usual, I have yet to recieve mine. ... If I remember correctly, Betty said, the AAW has no control over the length of delivery for bulk mail at the postal service, Well, after not recieving my magazine today, I went and had a talk to the person at our little post office, and they said there is no way that it would take almost a month to get a magazine to my mailbox. If the magazine arriving late were only once in awhile, it would be no big deal, but this just seems to be business as usual to my mail box.

The journals are all mailed at the same time, bulk mail, from the printer in northern Minnesota, and we have no control over how the USPS arranges for delivery of journals. Nonetheless, we are truly sorry that you have not yet received your October journal.

Linda Ferber in the office in St. Paul is the person who handles memberships and lost journals. She generally waits until about the 20th of the publishing month to send out replacement journals first class. (Unfortunately it sometimes does take that long for bulk mail to be delivered.)

Email Linda (inquiries@woodturner.org) and ask her to check your mailing address on record. It's possible that further up the line from your little post office, there's a delay. Please mention this to Linda. She might be able to have the printer trace a problem of delivery to a particular area.

Linda will gladly mail you a replacement journal, first class, if your journal does not arrive in the next day or two.

For the December journal, how about you send me your name and address by email the end of November? I will personally mail you a copy, first class, when I mail author copies. Here's a teaser for what's in the December issue: eight additional pages, an article by Richard Raffan on chuck jaws, and a really cool project article for those who want to make someone special a Christmas present (and it's not a tree ornament).


Betty Scarpino, editor, AW

p.s. Disclosure: this is not an invitation for anyone else to request a personal copy of the journal, mailed first-class . . . . 😀

 

[n7bsn]

The journals are all mailed at the same time, bulk mail, from the printer in northern Minnesota, and we have no control over how the USPS arranges for delivery of journals. ...

One of the issues people that live more "rural" can notice is the delays they can sometimes see in bulk mail. The Post Office is allowed to hold this mail, at each stop. I get my mail at a small satellite office, which means I almost always see a publication a day later then the people a 1/4 mile away, that get theirs direct from a main office

Ralph

 

[Brian Libby]

My father and I used to subscribe to the same magazine and time and time again he would get his 2 to 3 days before I would and it was only 200 feet from my house to his!!!!!!!

 

[Betty Scarpino]

My father and I used to subscribe to the same magazine and time and time again he would get his 2 to 3 days before I would and it was only 200 feet from my house to his!!!!!!!

Brian, was your father a prankster? He could have bribed the carrier to delay delivery of your magazine for a few days, just for a good laugh. My Dad would have thought of doing something like that . . . .

Or if your father was at home regularly and you weren't, he could simply snatch your magazine from your mailbox, hold it for a day, then take it to the post office and re-mail it.



Betty Scarpino, editor, AW

 

[Gretch Flo]

Devious Betty

Betty-you have devious "roots".😀 Gretch

 

[Betty Scarpino]

Betty-you have devious "roots".😀 Gretch

Yes, I do, thanks! 😱

 

[Brian Libby]

Nope- that was not the case. At the time we were farming so I was aware of when the mail came !🙂