Re: Shrink wrap for IRISES

[MORRISJE1@aol.com]

Thank you Tom.  Good to know.  Add to that the potential loss of  ten 
memberships.  I personally have suffered in silence as each of the  January 2011, 
April 2011, April 2012, and July/August 2012 bulletins were  damaged in the 
mail.  All four had their covers torn off with other  collateral damage.  
There may be more silence out there than we know.   One of our local members 
said she hadn't received a whole, undamaged bulletin  for two years until 
the January/February 2013 issue arrived with three  staples.  It should be 
noted that all foreign mailings are inserted in  mailing envelopes.
 
Jim Morris
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In a message dated 6/2/2013 6:55:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
aismemsec@earthlink.net writes:

As the person who  replaces the damaged issues I have a few points to make. 
 
 
    1.  Normal replacement per issue is about 3 or 4 out of 3,200+  mailed. 
 
    2.  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%.  
    3.  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.

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