Questions about THE NEWS

[B.Meldon]

I would also like to add my appreciation to Bill for all the work he is doing unassisted getting the news in the envelopes and posted out to us all once again.
Thank you Bill!

[MickT]

Same here, Thank you Bill for all you have done and continue to do to support the membership.

Mick

[Peter Boulter]

I often had to do mail-outs as part of my job, so I know from experience how much work is involved in envelope stuffing and Bill deserves a BIG vote of thanks for what he does in getting our copies of The News to us each month.

Mine arrived this morning, another interesting read. So thanks also to Chris for putting together another good issue.

[Hugh Norwood]

Got my copy of the NEWS today; a good issue - thanks to the contributors and the Editor for assembling it. And of course thank you to Bill for the envelope stuffing and posting.

[Malcolm]

My copy of the Sept. issue arrived today.  One of the best for many a year.  Well done Chris and the contributors.
Malcolm

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

As Society social media pseudo-boffin, I had a difficult time deciding what part of the September NEWS to feature on the Society Facebook page.  Ended up doing Ted's railcar AND Keith's 'Hardaford'.

https://www.facebook.com/009Society

[MickT]

It's still November (just) but it is over a week later in the month than when my copy of the News usually arrives in the post. Is there a delay this month or has everyone received their December issue yet? I don't want to pester the memsec with "non arrival" notifications if there is a reason why mine hasn't yet arrived!

Mick

[Peter Boulter]

It's not just you. I haven't received my copy yet either.

[JulienW]

I suspect that the current lock down rules that ban different households from mixing (due to end in a couple of days time) has probably meant the the usual 'stuffing team' has been reduced to one man, who will have had to stuff 2000 issues of 009 News into 2000 envelopes then arrange for them to get into the postal system...    again!

Added to that are the issues that Royal Mail themselves are having (a lot of staff off sick or having to self-isolate until a negative Covid test), and similar issues may have also resulted in delays at the printers, then The News is most likely to be a little late this month.

If it's of any conciliation Mick I haven't had mine either, so you are not the only one suffering withdrawal symptoms  :D

[JulienW]

All that being said the postman has just delivered my December News!

[Hobby]

Bearing in mind it's the December issue, should we really be complaining when it's not yet December?! ;)

[Hugh Norwood]

My NEWS arrived today!

(bearing in mind that Radio Times for 28 Nov - 4 Dec (which we subscribe to here) hasn't arrived yet!)

And also that Bill has been operating on his own during the current unpleasantness....

[Graeme Dunbar]

Same here. Many thanks to all involved in the production and distribution. It looks like a good issue too. I've just flicked through it quickly but the Lockturn Quay and Cassettes articles caught my eye.

[Malcolm]

It's still November (just) but it is over a week later in the month than when my copy of the News arrives in the post. Is there a delay this month or has everyone received their December issue yet? I don't want to pester the memsec with "non arrival" notifications if there is a reason why mine hasn't yet arrived!

Mick

Well you did move to Wales, the border police are probably checking it out due to the suspicious plain white packaging.  :police:  Maybe you should have moved to Craigshire, his lordship is reading my copy at the moment.
Of course one means of getting your copy early would be to volunteer for the post of editor.  ;)
Malcolm

[MickT]

Of course one means of getting your copy early would be to volunteer for the post of editor.  ;)
Malcolm

Aha, already done my time on that score thank you Malcolm - well assistant editor for 2 years at least - which was back in the days when one of us had to get on the pedal generator to warm the ink up and the other one had to sort out the hot metal in the John Bull printing set - well almost anyway. I did all the "front desk " and proof reading while Simon Coward relaxed and put things together on his state of the art IT set up while I struggled along with a DX66 and also on a dial up 56K internet connection!

Here we go again - nobody is complaining Blair, I was simply asking if other members have received their copy yet so I can work out if mine is likely to be in the postal system or lost in which case there is a well organised procedure for reporting loss of issue to BrianE the Memsec.

I am very well aware of the packing and distribution system for the News and I highly appreciate the Leeds packing team and in particular Bill Luty who has been doing it entirely on his own during lockdown restrictions including not only packing and labelling some 2000 envelopes but also delivering the whole lot to the Royal Mail, I was simply enquiring whether anyone knows of a delay this month before assuming that my copy was mislaid as has happened with a couple of items of my mail recently which were delivered to incorrect addresses. I thank those who replied to this simple query which confirmed that there hasn't been any general distribution delays such as were experienced a few months ago due to a distribution glitch that happened between printers and arrival at the packing HQ, without getting on platforms and expressing unasked for and unwarranted sermons.

As it happens - Yippee! My copy safely arrived with this mornings post, so it hasn't been confiscated by the border patrol Heddlu's on the Severn Bridge trying gallantly to keep the germ ridden English away from the post-lockdown sanitised and healthy Cymru.

Best wishes to all

Mick