[MR] Fwd: [Comments] Publications Letter to SCA Inc.

[Derrick Solomon]

i was personally and intimately familiar with the way the acorn was put
together and mailed out for the last 3 1/2 years and your assumption is
wrong.  it went out constantly on 10th of every month to the printer who
printed and sent to the mailing house with a 24-48 hour turnaround and a
contract guaranteeing a delivery to the post office on or before the
20th.  this was consistent with very very few exceptions (and those
being by a day).  cassandra addressed this with the post office and
examined the process thoroughly.  nothing on her end needed to be
addressed.  

societal law states that the newsletter must be in the post offices
hands by the 20th of each month.  this was done.  the post office has
seen a lot of changes since 9/11/01 (about the time cassandra took over)
and some of the security measures taken at some metro hubs can delay
some mailings.  however, none of this matters as the newsletter is in
the post offices hands a full 10 days before the delivery expectation of
the newsletter.  over the last three and a half years i know this to be
true.  the wildly fluctuating actual delivery times can not be
attributed to the chroniclers office.

regards
logan

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Subject: Re: [MR] Fwd: [Comments] Publications Letter to SCA Inc.


>From: "Lady Rhiannon of Berra" <ladyrhi at gmail.com>
>
>Not to start anything; but I'd like to point out that if the issue is
>with the post office then perhaps the complaint should be addressed
>there; not to SCA corporate.  They (and our Kingdom Chronicler) can't
>really do anything about the post office; and to continue to discuss
>it on the Merry Rose every month only pours salt on an already open
>and festering wound.
>
>
>Lady Rhiannon of Berra

One way to look at it is that this is a relatively new problem. If it
were 
only with the Post Office, then one would expect it to have been a 
consistent problem from the beginning. Unfortunately, this problem has
only 
existed for the last two or three years, meaning we cannot naturally
rule 
out problems incurred from the sending side as there were changes made
about 
that time.

That being said, if we can't fix the middle to make the end what it
should 
be, then we'd have to change the front end. Whether this means pushing
up 
the deadline for submissions for a monthly acorn so that it can be
mailed 
out sooner, or changing the bulk mailing contractor if need be, or some 
other good idea that will work.

Trouble is, until something is fixed, people will continue to complain; 
shocking another gasp out of the horse so it can be paraded around and 
whacked upon.



Vels


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