Missing December 2024 and January 2025 MR in Canada

Hello Everyone,

Some of you may have heard that Canada had a postal strike from Nov 15, 2024 till Dec 17, 2024. Most of my regular mail seems to be arriving, but I have not received my December or January issues of Model Railroader. I would have expected my February issue by now.

Has anyone else in Canada received any of those issues yet? Has anyone heard from Firecrown or someone else what the status is?

I have tried to contact Firecrown customer service, but have not heard anything back.

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I also did not receive Dec nor Jan; had to buy both and Feb should have arrived second week of Jan but nothing yet. I received a renewal form today but price went up significantly; with that and the fact I am not receiving what I paid for I am cancelling my renewal.

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Hi tbucket74,

Thanks for your reply. Good to know I’m not the only one.
However, I finally received a response from FireCrown. They said the strike caused significant delays and have asked me to wait till the end of this month for the missing issues. After that, they’ll look at sending replacement copies. Guess I’ll give them 2 more weeks.

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Why are you blaming the magazine for the postal strike?

Edit to add: While the strike was ongoing, the USPS website had a message that mail to Canada wasn’t leaving the US because there was no one to accept it. The magazines weren’t sitting there ready for the mail carriers to deliver as soon as they went back to work.

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We received the December issue at the club. Still waiting for January.

Simon

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I received both Dec and Jan of the NMRA magazine on January 24th. I received a Christmas card last week. The backlog is slowly clearing but tons of mail are still waiting to be processed.

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The 6888 Battalion should be brought back. ::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion - Wikipedia

David

When my father came back from fighting in Europe (30th Infantry, landed in New York on the Queen Mary on VJ Day), he didn’t have enough “points” to be discharged, so was assigned to Camp (now Fort) McCoy in Wisconsin. Before going in the Army, he was a mailman, so he ended up running the Regimental Post Office there until finally getting let go in February 1946.

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Yes. I knew a number of soldiers who had ‘to stay on’ before being discharged.

'Going Home Thank you gentlemen.

David

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