as a Dungeon subscriber living in chicago, I am finding it odd you guys are shipping my issues around the middle of the month and its taking a month to be delivered? As a subscriber aren't I supposed to get my issue before it hits the newstands?
(otherwise whats the point). Consistently I am receiving my issues 3-5 days after it hits newstands, but you're advertising it shipped to me a month ago. If I order direct from the Paizo store I get always get things within a week.
Can you guys help me understand this? as I am seeing zero point in subscribing when I can either order the issues from the store or just buy it on the newstand and get the issue earlier than I do as a subscriber
Thanks
I feel your pain oldcoast. Take a look at the other threads on this board; we're all in the same boat. Unfortunately some of us — namely my fellow Canucks and I — are deeper down near the bilge than you. Our mags consistently arrive one or two months after the shipping date. Your fellow Americans are complaining too. Paizo's not at fault here, but they're looking into resolving the matter. The problem lies with the postal service. Maybe they just don't give a rat's behind about things stamped "periodicals", who knows. Hopefully this will all be straightened out before long.
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The problem lies with the postal service. Maybe they just don't give a rat's behind about things stamped "periodicals", who knows. Hopefully this will all be straightened out before long.
I promise - Subscription copies enter the USPS system simultaneously. Nobody's getting shipped later than anybody else. Periodicals rate mail is, by definition, simply not a high priority for the Post Office.
If your issues regularly come late, I have only are two suggestions, short of giving up the subscription and buying them at retail:
1: Complain to your local post office.
2: Have them delivered to a different address on a different carrier route, preferably in a different zip code. It really can make a *huge* difference.
-Vic.
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I think one of the benefits of subscribing is the savings. You pay about $40 for 12 issues. If you bought 12 issues through a store, it would cost over $80. And if you bought them one-by-one over the Paizo website, you would have to pay $11 an issue after shipping and handing. I also do not see where it says you will get the magazine before the newsstand. Some newsstands put the magazine on-sale before the official street date. This is not Paizo's fault. I don't think a store wants a new magazine that they know will sell to be sitting in the storeroom gathering dust until a certain date. Books can have that restriction because they are published by huge corporations that can enforce that policy. The monthly magainze I used to subscribe to (not Dungeon or Dragon) almost never arrived before it hit the comic book shop. I wanted it to, but I didn't expect it to since I signed up more for the savings rather than getting the magazine early.
I think one of the benefits of subscribing is the savings. You pay about $40 for 12 issues. If you bought 12 issues through a store, it would cost over $80. And if you bought them one-by-one over the Paizo website, you would have to pay $11 an issue after shipping and handing. I also do not see where it says you will get the magazine before the newsstand.
excellent point I was not thinking about the cost savings. I just "assummed" (ha-ha) that as az subscriber I would get the magazine before the newstand, just like every other magazine I subscribe to!. Regardless this isn't a huge deal, I am just wondering if something is wrong with the distribution. And it appears from Vic's answer there is not. So it's really boils down to do I want to pay 200-300% more for the magazine in order to get it a week or so earlier.
I definately subscribe for the savings.
I promise - Subscription copies enter the USPS system simultaneously. Nobody's getting shipped later than anybody else.
Oh don't misunderstand me; I wasn't implying favouritism or partisanship or anything on anyone's part.
Periodicals rate mail is, by definition, simply not a high priority for the Post Office.
<sigh!> Yeah, I'd been suspecting this for quite some while.
1: Complain to your local post office.
2: Have them delivered to a different address on a different carrier route, preferably in a different zip code. It really can make a *huge* difference.
Well, #2 just isn't a viable option, but #1 is definately on my to-do list. At any rate I'm going to send Canada Post an "inquisitive" email. This is rather what I meant by doing something proactive in my rambling rant yesterday.
Ok, I see in another thread the mags are shipped from Mendota, IL???? That is about 100 miles away from me and my issue # 132 shipped over a month ago!!. I think its reasonable if I don't see #132 today, I should be able to request an issue be re-sent to me directly, Last month I got # 131 around the 10th-11th so even by that standard mines late or lost.