Restorer Magazine

DougVieyra said:
My issue arrived yesterday. - Eureka, California

. . . But I expect that they mail out the earlier copies to the older members . . . those who are old enough to be at risk of not being around for a late arrival.
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Very funny Doug ! that is our smile for the day! Wayne
 
Larry Jenkins said:
I wonder how this will go over..

I was told a long time ago by one of the Publishers that the erratic delivery is the USPSs fault. He stated that it's all in how and when they choose to deliver that grade of item.

Don't know if I believe this. What really would be nice, if they haven't in the past, would be to post here on the Barn about their delivery schedules.

Nothing wrong with this subject!

Larry
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It's not their "fault". Periodical mail is a "as space provides" delivery. The rate is way lower then first class. To get this discount the publisher agrees to have it delivered when there is space available on the "truck". The cost for postage of a single magazine is about 30 cents up to a pound in weight as compared to first class with is 49 cents the first ounce and 22 cents each additional ounce.
 
Mike V. Florida said:
It's not their "fault". Periodical mail is a "as space provides" delivery. The rate is way lower then first class. To get this discount the publisher agrees to have it delivered when there is space available on the "truck". The cost for postage of a single magazine is about 30 cents up to a pound in weight as compared to first class with is 49 cents the first ounce and 22 cents each additional ounce.
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You are right Mike . Have been in the Mailing and Bookbinding Trade for over 45 years nothing has changed but the Cost to mail. :D
 
I concur on the cost of mailing! Overseas mail has jumped dramatically in the last year as well as first class mail.
 
Tom Wesenberg said:
And still they claim to be loosing billions of dollars each year.:confused:
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That's not hard to figure. The government expects a payment of $5.5 billion so as to have enough money in "savings" to handle all the retirement and healthcare of the USPS for the next 75 years. Yes, the government wants the USPS to pay now for the retirement of employees not yet born.

The amount of mail to be delivered has fallen by a third since 2005, but the number of places that the mail has to be delivered has gone up. Salaries have gone up, gas, fuel and so on and so on have only gone up since 2005.

Mail pieces, down
Number of mail stops, up
Expenses, up

The US is still the cheapest country for the delivery of mail.
 
The difference in arrival times across the country could be based on the fact that the printer presorts and ships bundles to the PO based on ZIP codes. Another factor is that the PO has combined sorting centers and that can add time to delivery. If I send a letter to a neighbor down the street on Monday and the carrier picks it up after 3 PM, chances are it will arrive Thursday since it has to go to Albuquerque and then back.

Having own a mail order company, the PO is the greatest thing since sliced bread. An overnight FedEx package from Durango to San Diego cost me $93.00. The exact same package Priority Mail with two day delivery was $13.00
 
Mike V. Florida said:
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The US is still the cheapest country for the delivery of mail.
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Not true. As an example, to send a small package (500g or 17.64 oz or less) from the USA to Germany via the USPS it cost $17.91 via their International First Class Mail service.

However to send the same weight package (500g or 17.64oz or less) the other direction, from Germany to the USA via the Deutsche Post, that only costs 3,45 Euro ($3.72 at today's exchange rate).

As another example, to send that same small package with "Registered Mail" it costs $13.95 extra from the USA to Germany via the USPS. Going the other way, the same package sent as "Registered Mail" ("Einschreiben") cost only 2,15 Euro extra ($2.32 at today's exchange rate) via the Deutsche Post.

Not sure how the German Deutsche Post is able to deliver their mail to the USA at more than 5 time less cost than it takes for the US Postal Service to deliver the mail to Germany....somehow the Deutsche Post seems to be able to stay in business despite their good value shipping rates!

Keeping with the required Model A forum theme, this is obviously a USPS truck - no funding for maintanance! ;) (MAFCA web page photo)
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Thank you Stewart for saving this truck with privatized funding :D

Fordially,
Brad in Germany
 
Brad in Germany said:
Not true. As an example, to send a small package (500g or 17.64 oz or less) from the USA to Germany via the USPS it cost $17.91 via their International First Class Mail service.

However to send the same weight package (500g or 17.64oz or less) the other direction, from Germany to the USA via the Deutsche Post, that only costs 3,45 Euro ($3.72 at today's exchange rate).

As another example, to send that same small package with "Registered Mail" it costs $13.95 extra from the USA to Germany via the USPS. Going the other way, the same package sent as "Registered Mail" ("Einschreiben") cost only 2,15 Euro extra ($2.32 at today's exchange rate) via the Deutsche Post.

Not sure how the German Deutsche Post is able to deliver their mail to the USA at more than 5 time less cost than it takes for the US Postal Service to deliver the mail to Germany....somehow the Deutsche Post seems to be able to stay in business despite their good value shipping rates!

Keeping with the required Model A forum theme, this is obviously a USPS truck - no funding for maintanance! ;) (MAFCA web page photo)
29%20MT%2000000%20StewartH.jpg

Thank you Stewart for saving this truck with privatized funding :D

Fordially,
Brad in Germany
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I would pay an unseemly and ridiculous amount of money to own that mail truck.
 
Received mine today....good articles. If I was a member of the Alamo A's, I'd be hanging around the ladies who run their Fashion Dept!!!!! :D:D:D

I like The Restorer mag until I get to the end and then disappointment sets in every time when I start seeing all the As for sale and I say, I want that one and that one and that one and...might as well throw in that one too. :(

Maybe someday both Sarah and I will be on the front cover driving down old Illinois Route 66 or 67, along the River Road or maybe even through a Calhoun County holler!!!! Ya never know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;)
 
This is my original Post. I still have NOT received my issue of the Restorer Magazine, here in Spartanburg, SC - as of November 16th. I even emailed the MAFCA office asking, if I am still on the members mailing list and did not even get a return response from them.
 
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