Re: [AISdiscuss] Where or where is my January Bulletin?

[Terry Aitken <terry@flowerfantasy.net>]

Hi All
Just from the comments made so far, it is apparent that the postal pony 
express travelling via the northern route - Portland to Nebraska to 
Michigan - did just fine -  no problem. The pony express service that 
goes from Portland to Denver to all points east sounds like the plugup.
That said, Ron James has volunteered to collect data in case this ever 
happens again  - which is not necessarily the case. Being able to 
deliver this data to the Portland Post Office so that they can track it 
down sounds great. They may even be able to shed light on this current 
problem. No idea what their tracking system is. Lets just hope that they 
have one.
Ron will need the date of bulletin arrival, name and postal code  in 
order to have useful data. That is not the information coming thru on 
these messages. (It could be figured out with a little extra work but 
lets not make this any harder than it has to be.)
Terry



MORRISJE1@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/11/2006 10:38:07 AM Central Standard Time,  
> PlankMail@aol.com writes:
>
> I can  deal with a special tear-out page.   I do not think sending  the
> complaint only to the local post office tells AIS anything.    I think AIS
> wants to
> know if this is a localized problem or a larger  more generalized problem.
> Going on word of mouth, it seems like a  generalized problem with this issue.
> I
> do think we (AIS) need to  identify the problem.   We (AIS) need  the
> information
> (data).
> Who would receive the  information?   An assistant-to-the-editor could be
> assigned to  this task of being the collecting and collating point for
> Bulletin delivery  data.   At present we don't have any editor's assistants,
> but  we
> should.   Maybe this would be a reasonable place to  reintroduce that function
> to
> Bulletin production. I'm sure several names  could be put forth by members of
> the active AIS community.
> Cheers!
> Jeanne
>
>
>
> All,
>
> I've been out of town judging a Regional Daffodil Show so I am just getting  
> up to speed on this topic.  I agree SOMEONE needs to get to the crux of the  
> problem.  And the local USPS reps ain't the ones!  Do we have a  Publication 
> Committee other than Bruce and Terry?  Again, somebody needs to  collect 
> distribution data that knows what happens in publication and  distribution in tandem. 
> If the Bulletin was in fact mailed via a Mailing  Service on January 23 FROM 
> ANYWHERE IN THE US then it should have arrived  EVERYWHERE within two weeks.  
> A month to six weeks or more would not be  acceptable to Time, Fine Gardening 
> or ANY publication, whether profit or  non-profit.  
> This should get priority attention by the Editor, Publisher and AIS  
> President.  It just isn't acceptable and delaying for an insert, although  admirable 
> as a suggestion, isn't either.  We owe our membership the  attention they 
> deserve.  The MAJOR benefit of AIS is the Bulletin.   There is absolutely no fuzz 
> about that.  And getting the major benefit so  very, very late isn't right and 
> is a possible contributor to membership  drop-outs.
>
> Jim M. 
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