Dungeon 145

[Shemeska]

I've had my copy for about a week and a day.

But Ari I hear you about the post office being late or just plain losing things. Xmas cards with cash, contracts to sign, credit card bills... my local mail person is not on my happy list, especially because whenever something says "Fragile" or "Do not bend" they tend to take this to mean "fold it in half and shove it into the box if it can remotely fit because you don't want to have to take it down to the apartment complex office to leave it there".

 

[BryonD]

I'm a bit irritated at the post office myself. Not only my Paizo magazines, but some fairly important paperwork from WotC, have all yet to arrive.

It is not acceptable, in this day and age, for a letter sent across the country's 48 contiguous states to take as long as it does.

It'd really be nice if UPS and FedEx were simply allowed to put things in a mail box.
I read a report a loooong time ago that one of those basically said they could deliver 1st class letters for something like 1/2 the cost of a stamp (at that time) if they could just be allowed to do drive by mailbox delivery like USPS. And you know they'd be much more efficient as well.
But as is we have one of the very few true examples of a real monopoly. Oh well.......

 

[diaglo]

mine arrived yesterday. delivery time = 4 weeks. back to the norm of lateness i guess.

 

[Qualidar]

I'm hoping for today.

~Qualidar~

 

[Razz]

I'm eagerly awaiting my Dragon #354. Anyone have that yet?

 

[freyar]

Anybody else still waiting for this copy of Dungeon?

 

[bento]

I got my copy on Tuesday (13th).

Do they stagger sending them out? I would think with some of us getting the issue weeks ago and others still waiting, that this isn't simply a matter of them all going out at the same time.

 

[James Jacobs]

The issues are all sent out at the same time for subscribers, but there's tens of thousands to send out, so it's basic physics that some will go before others. Further complicating the issue is that magazines ship via the lowest priority route possible, which is how magazine companies can afford to send out so many bulky products through the mail. I believe that most junk mail has a higher priority than magazines. Which means that the amount of tiny little things that can delay a magazine while it's in the post is staggering. And even among magazines there's a hierarchy. Weekly periodicals get higher priority over monthly, for example. So in the end, it's a minor miracle that ANYone gets magazines anytime soon.

 

[BryonD]

My mastery of Murphy's Law remains well in place.
Complain on Day 1, it shows up on Day 2.

Not that I was complaining at Paizo. (This time )
I understand how the mail works in this.
I was just wondering if it had been long enough to start thinking it got lost.
Clearly the answer there was "No".

Anyway, it shows up every 30 days +/- 15.