TRAINS magazine delivery time....

[Modelcar]

.....Have just received May issue of TRAINS today...[4-6]....Is anyone elses arrival date this late....?[:O]

[ironhorseman]

Late? Well, I got mine yesterday, at least I think it was yesterday. Usually comes on a Saturday but this month's came Monday, yes, definatly Monday, which was yesterday, I think. What was the question?

[Anonymous]

Got mine last week...

LC

[Anonymous]

It's for may and it arrives in april.. it's still 20 some odd days early!

[Noah Hofrichter]

I just got mine yesterday, and I don't find it unusually late. The local library usually gets the model Rrailroader the same day I get my trains, and that happened again this time, so nothing unusual to me

[Anonymous]

Haven't got mine yet...... still waiting.

Usually takes a little longer to Canada, should be here anyday now.

[Modelcar]

....Can't remember the exact date but one of the staff mentioned it is put in the mail around the 26th or 27th....so that is taking quite a bit of time to travel here in the States.

[Mikeygaw]

only things that go fast in the mail are bills and junk mail.

[CShaveRR]

My May issue came yesterday, 4/5. In the recent past it had been coming late in the second month preceding the cover date, so I had been looking forward to this one for about a week. Can't get too upset, though...it'll be a week or so before I can actually find time to do more than glance at it (between yesterday and today, five magazines have arrived...all have gotten the glance treatment, but nothing beyond that).

[Anonymous]

Every U.S. subscription copy of the magazine enters the postal system from the printer within the same two-day period every month. What the postal service does with them afterwards is no doubt interesting.

[Anonymous]

Kinda like shipping a car on the UP nowadays!!!

[eastside]

Received mine here in NYC last Friday.[:)] The variable factor is the USPS.

[edblysard]

Mine showed up in the swamp yesterday, 04/06.

Ed

[Mookie]

I get mine about the 1st of every month - they don't want to deal with the Mookie on a late delivery!

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

I get mine about the 1st of every month - they don't want to deal with the Mookie on a late delivery!

Note to mailperson read sign
"beware of Cat!"[:)]
stay safe
joe

[Modelcar]

...As posted above, I too received several magazines yesterday as well and just glancing through TRAINS...it looks to be another interesting one....30 some mile long tunnel, now that really should be interesting...!

[Jordan6]

It's odd that Kalmbach Publishing Co. is in Wisconson and I have yet to recieve my TRAINS and MR mags here in Iowa, but yet edblysard got his in Texas!!



Its not fair[(-D]!!!

P.S. No offense[:o)]

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jordan6

It's odd that Kalmbach Publishing Co. is in Wisconson and I have yet to recieve my TRAINS and MR mags here in Iowa, but yet edblysard got his in Texas!!



Its not fair[(-D]!!!

P.S. No offense[:o)]

This is THE Ed Blysard you are talking about - think about it!

[Anonymous]

Trains is printed in Milwaukee, if not in many years by Kalmbach itself. Usually, it goes to the Quad plant at Duplainville (sometimes Sussex or West Allis), which I can practically see from my office window. That the printer is close by in this day and age is merely a coincidence; almost all magazines are direct-to-press and the information necessary to make the plates is transmitted electronically. Quad is one of the largest magazine printers in the world, and has plants scattered to the four corners of the U.S. to obtain lower distribution costs. Magazines such as National Geographic or Time often come out of eight or so printing plants, each handling a specific region.

[Anonymous]

I got mine on 4/6. I don't consider this late at all, in fact I think its fast. Most of my magazine that I subscribe to arrive at my door in the first 2-3 weeks of the month.

BTW speaking of this issue, seeing that I am a newbie to railroading I got a question. Hopefully I wont spoil the issue for those who have yet to get it. Anyways on the inside cover at the bottom there is 2 sentences that describes the cover. The second sentence says "Don't look too closely at the track." What does this mean? The only thing that caught my eye on the cover is the white material on the other track of the double track. Is this what they mean and if so whats the deal?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Yes got mine very good

DOGGY

[Anonymous]

Dear Steve: If you look closely at the track, you'll see that it's terrible track. How would a big, important, train run on time on track like this? Well, it wouldn't. The south main track has some fresh ballast dumped on it (the white rock), but if you look at it, you'll see it's just dumped there, not really tamped down under the ties where it belongs. Compare this track to an important main line today, and I hope this will be obvious to you.

[CShaveRR]

Want an eye-opening experience? See if you can come up with any train pictures from about 30 years ago--darn near any railroad, as long as you're familiar with it--and see how track maintenance compares with that of today. Things really are better now. I go into the first or second editions of the Train Watcher's Guide to Chicago for my comparisons.

Of course, I shouldn't speak in exclusive terms, because I can think of a couple of railroads right now where track maintenance standards are a little suspect. Fortunately mine's not one of them.

[Anonymous]

.....mine just arrived today, finally.

That damn long weekend screwed up the shipping time, usually it is here closer to a week previous to today.

[Anonymous]

What's the problem with delivery time??? They are still a month in advance! I'm lucky if I get through the whole magazine (and all the others) before the next one arrives. I STILL haven't finished Marchs' Trains! I need a vacation to catch up.

[Modelcar]

All magazines are a month in advance....Aren't we simply talking about consistent delivery times....

[Modelcar]

....I for one don't blame TRAINS magazine for these eratic delivery times, it has to do with the means by which it travels to get to our respective locations and of course the handling of the traffic it travels in.

[Anonymous]

Look, look

If i told you what the post offce workers did with them, i'd have to kill you. I know because i have "connections" Usually helps in expiditing things! So i wholeheartedly reccomend you get up and get to know your carrier, offer him somehting to eat and drink on occasioan, and your mail will never ever EVER be banged up again.

Trust me on that one.

[Modelcar]

Wow....what secrets.

[Mookie]

QM - call me and I will read mine to you, since I get it pretty much on the 1st!

[:D]

Mook