Subscription failure, again

Seems like every March R 7 C fails to appear in Central Ohio. Last year it was on the news stands, this year it was my subscription copy.

I have contactes subscription services and they made me an offer to make up for the problem but HEY!, every March there seems to be a "shortage" of R & C issues.

Why?  

That is interesting, I haven't heard anything about a March shortage from my end.

Let me know if I can help you with anything.  

They have it at my local store i pick my issue up at, and i have last march issue  

To ekimball -

It's April 19 and the new (subscription) issue has not been delivered. This is not saying it won't come Monday, but...

The local stores will not be serviced by the distributor(s) until Monday so it is too soon to say they will receive a supply.

I can provide you a copy of the email set by the subscription service (in FL)that states they had no March issues in stock. Maybe they aren't providing you correct information?  

To ekimball,

It's April 21, new issue on local new stands but my subscription issue has not been received. Anything you can do?  

I don't have any contact with the Subscription people, but I will see if I can get in contact with some one who can help.

-Ed  

May subscription issue arrived 1 1/2 weeks after May 20, only found two issues (at a Barnes and Nobles) on news stand of NE Columbus, OH. No issues on magazine racks of supermarkets.  

Do you think maybe the post office and delivery people are reading your copy?  I live in a town of 126 people and always get mine on time? A good sign would be the absense of subscription cards and the pages dog eared and stuck together.  

No, have the idea the people delivering my route simply can't read. Tend to receive someone else's mail several times per month. If my subscription is being delivered it's not to me and the same address on another street in this 'hood only comes to me with my mail when his SS check is not delivered.

Let's face it, when the local distributor doesn't bother leaving R & C at the local stores (magazine displays) then there isn't enough interest in the mag in my area to generate follow-ups on my cojmplaints.

Those new "fad" car mags are being displayed in vast numbers but aren't selling (want to see last month's "Hot Rodz"? Stop at a news stand near my house!)

Maybe if R & C had articles on Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, etc. things would be different.  

You know to be honest I have been to meetings before and I'm still not sure how the circulation thing works, and the Post Office will deliver in rain, sleet, and snow but to the wrong house!  

Current situation: A subscription copy with a cover date of "September 2008" arrived in my mailbox on June 16. Haven't received a copy with an "August 2008" cover date.

I've given up. The magazine either comes or doesn't come from now on. Once the current subscription ends/copies stop coming I am finished colleting/subscribing to R & C.

R & C has been treated like a left-handed red headed step child since Peterson bought the title from Quinn back in the 50's. The current owner seems to have more interest in using the magazine's name to sell other car title magazines then seeing to it that the subscribers actually receive copies of R & C.

Every time I contact the subscription service to inform them that my issue had not arrive they tell me they do not have the missing issue in stock but will extend my subscription one issue. That has happened three times in 2008 and the year isn't half over.

I feel sorry for those of you at R & C and do hope your pay checks arrive on time and are backed by cold cash.

What I don't feel sorry for are the companies who buy magazine titles and then complain that computers/the internet are making it too expensive to publish/furnish hard copy magazines.

I am the oldest male in a family of printers who never work in the industry, I know where the actual problem lies, the company owners.

This is probobaly the last time you hear from me, have been subscribing since 1959, have collected all but issue number 2, but it's over.  

I  fail to see why you are mad at the editors of R&C if your copy is lost in the mail?  If the local newstand doesn't stock it's because it doesn't sell and and they don't stock what they can't make a profit on.  I occasionally get someone else's mail and I'm sure someone gets mine.  

I guess I'm like most subscribers and have been very fortunate in my years of delivery.  I had one issue arrive torn in half, notified R&C, and had another delivered to me fully wrapped and perfect.  It's too bad your experiences don't echo mine.  Good luck in the future  

XC I sent you a PM  

Jalopy 45, I'm not mad at the editor just remember the old days when editors had the power to "make things right". After all the work they put into the production of a magazine an editor needs to know if the publisher/destribution people are making an effort to get the magazine staff's work out to the readers.

NO issues of R & C appeared on the magazine stands in the NE section of Columbus, OH during June (August and September cover dates). Having to make a special trip to a Barnes and Nobles located in a high-priced "Fashion Mall" is just not what R & C is all about.

But I also noticed that the other "fad" rod magaizines were also missing (rat rod oriented). Not a good sign for a major U.S. city that has hosted both the NSRA and Goodguys national meets. (For the record, Columbus, OH is a paper shuffling town where people who "get dirt under their fingernails" are considered social outcasts. Machinists, a once proud trade, are now looking for employment in the local news rag under the heading "Warehouse".

Work on YOUR car and refuse to work on the neighbor's and the zoning board people "somehow" come out to determine if you are running a "garage or private junkyard" in an unzoned area. But you can sell drugs 24/7 and only worry that you will have your fingers slapped.

And the post office that serves my delivery route is on drugs.