I'd also like to add a comment.
Why does the website say that an issue is shipped to subscribers on, say, the 3rd, but I don't actually get it until sometimes as late as two or three weeks later?
I regularly recieve my issue near the third week of the month (around the 20th)
Why does it take two or three weeks for a magazine to reach me inside the United States (Heck, inside Washington State), but only three days for the letter I mailed to my gramma in Illinois with a regular stamp?
I think you;d get less cmplaints about retailers getting copies before sunscribers if the subscribers actually got theirs within a week of the ship date ;-)