Re: [AISdiscuss] Jan Bulletin

[Terry Aitken <terry@flowerfantasy.net>]

Hi Jim
I know we had a problem scheduling Bulletin wrap up around Christmas 
with the Aitken's out of town.
Mr. Filardi is not back from his trip yet. My e-mails indicate that we 
were going hot on the Jan. Bulletin about 4 Jan. but I dont know when we 
finished up. It seemed to me that it was one of the earliest ones ever 
to go in the mail. Sorry that yours went to Timbucktu before entering 
earth orbit. It seems to me that some of the overseas people had them 
back in January. I certainly had conversations with some of them many 
weeks ago.
To the best of my knowledge, the April bulletin will be the first to 
ever go to press AHEAD of the month it is scheduled for.
I believe that part of the deal that Bruce brokered with the publisher 
was for 4 issues altho I think the paper weight was optional. I dont 
think the April issue with all of the color ads is a good time to fool 
around with the paper if we can stay on track with the budget. The 
mandate to Bruce was to hit the approved annual budget.  It is up to 
Bruce to figure out how to get there.
Perhaps if we told the post office that MISSOURI was a foreign country, 
you'd get yours a month or more earlier?
It is a mystery! I dont have an answer.
Terry
I think Bruce is due back sometime this week and the April Bulletin 
could be on the presses within days. (We do color correcting first.)

MORRISJE1@aol.com wrote:

> It might interest you to know that the January Bulletin arrived today  
> Monday, March 6, 2006.  I would suggest that whatever mailing process and  service 
> we are using is insufficient.  Good thing for my purposes I had  received an 
> advance copy from Bruce.  
> I would hope the Board is going to see some sort of a detailed written  
> report/proposal with printing and mailing bids (using the same specifications!)  
> prior to the actual Board meeting in Portland.  When some folks in  Washington 
> and Union, MO told me Saturday they just received the Bulletin on  Friday, I 
> found it hard to believe until today when our copy arrived.  It  is my opinion 
> that both copy and printing deadlines should be moved forward so  that the 
> Bulletin is at least mailed in the same month that it is  dated.
>
> Jim M.
>
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