April Issue

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
1

Has everyone gotten there April issue via US mail?

Im in Texas and still waiting for mine.

It is usually here by the 1st.

Mark

2

I feel sorry for you. I think that you should get yours before I get mine. I got mine about a week ago, and I live in Calgary. Isn’t texas closer to wisconsin than Alberta, and shouldn’t there be a border delay? Boy, the U.S. Postal service must not be as good as ours.
Please don’t hurt me.
Trainboy

3

got my first mailing of Model Railroader this month. I think I got it 3 days ago. so you will get your copy verry soon.
Scot
Sandwich,ILL

4

I just got mine today way over here!!

great reading, just hang on it’s on it’s way.

Ken.

5

I received my MR about a week ago but didn’t receive Trains and Garden Railways till this Tuesday. Maybe a distro problem somewhere.

6

I live in Sweden(northern Europe) and I got mine a week ago. I also got Model Railroad Planning 2005 yesterday, anyone received that yet?

7

Oh sure, Sweden and New Zealand…people, were talking TEXAS here. Bigger than everybody else combined, if they delivered it by bullet train it would take weeks to get into the center of that great state!
On the serious side, mine was a bit late too. Last months was also late, by about 7 days. I also get Trains, and they have always arrived together, but not this time, MR came on Tues, still no Trains.
Hang in there, fwd.

8

I just got my MR yesterday and I live in Wisconsin
Ron

9

Mine arrived on February 28.

10

Still have not received mine yet.

Mark:(

11

Call the circulation dept. and ask them to ship you a replacement. Sky and Telescope misses one of my editions every year, and they are very good about getting it to me if I call. No questions asked.

12

Believe it or not I got mine on the 28th here in PA. For once I wasn’t the last one to get mine.

13

It’s not unusual to have a lot of variation and lack of consistency from month to month. This thread shows up every couple of months. Last fall Mark Hemphill, ex-editor of Trains Magazine, wrote a long post explaining that it was basically because the mailing goes out second class, for cost reasons. Second class mail gets to wait until all first class mail gets taken care of. So different post offices can have much different workloads month to month.

Here’s what he said at that time:

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QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill

Here’s some info you might not know about magazines and mailing.

Most magazines are mailed in a very narrow window from the printer – one to three days, tops. Very large-circulation magazines such as National Geographic and People are printed regionally to obtain lower mailing costs, better delivery consistency, and to be able to sell regional advertising, but most magazines come from one press. The base rate for the typical magazine subscription is via second-class mail, a class that is extremely low-cost because it is handled on a space-available basis and has low service guarantees. The post office moves first-class mail first, then if there’s any space left in the truck, or time in the day, it sorts and moves the second-class and lesser-class mail. Because mailing volume is not flat – it varies widely by day of the week, time of the the month, and time of year – some days the second-class mail arriving at the post office moves expeditiously and other days it will gather dust for a week while the resources are devoted to meeting the first-class guarantee. Because mail moves on multiple sorts, each step of the process introduces a new opportunity for delay or missed connection. It is not unusual for a second-class mailing to be wildly inconsistent at a given address, especially if that address is at the end of a delivery chain that is badly stressed by growth, insufficient capacity, or poor management at one or more steps of the w

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Well I contacted customer service and there sending me a replacement issue.

I hope this does not happen again, its odd it never showed up.

Mark