As the person who replaces the damaged issues I have a few points to make.- Normal replacement per issue is about 3 or 4 out of 3,200+ mailed.
- I get anecdotal information from members that damage is greater than reported to me. Which leads me to believe that another half dozen or so members are "suffering in silence". So let's say there are 10 mangled issues per mailing. Shown as a percentage that's 0.3125%.
- It cost me $2.32 each to send a replacement issue x 10=$23.20. If it costs more than that to shrinkwrap then we might want to tread carefully before adding more cost to the bulletin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Snyder
Sent: Jun 2, 2013 7:21 PM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Shrink wrap for IRISES
Hello all,
President Morris has asked that the following statement be put out
on discuss for your comments.
All,
For the past two or three years AIS has had a problem with
delivery of the AIS Bulletin Irises. Many
people have reported that delivery of their bulletin has been
mutilated or delivered with missing covers and pages. The
editor proposed for at least two board meetings that the board
take action to approve his request to either shrink wrap or
insert Irises in mailing envelopes.
In addition, at the Fall board meeting 2012 I presented a
flashdrive digital presentation from members in Wisconsin
illustrating the mutilation of several of their bulletins. At
that time, and previously at the editor's presentations, the
board chose not to take any action to approve a change to the
current mailing via USPS. With the latest repeated complaints
from east coast and west coast areas, I feel we must re-address
the continuing problem. I would ask the editor to once more
provide a cost estimate to the board from Sundance Press as to
the expense of either shrink wrapping or inserting all issues in
mailing envelopes. In excess of ten people have told me that
they are considering dropping membership because they cannot
receive a whole bulletin. When we approved the third staple
(for $50 an issue) it solved the previous problem of covers
coming apart. Now I feel we must do something about this bigger
issue as well.
Jim Morris
President
American Iris Society
Tom Gormley
AIS Membership Secretary
PO Box 177
DeLeon Springs, FL 32130
386-277-2057
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