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Is it something I said
Posted by bargepole on 13 January 2011 - 10:01pm.
For the second month running, the new issue is in the shops before Bargepole's subscription arrives.
While there was an excuse last month with the severe weather, there surely should have been no problems with the new issue.
Sorry to vent spleen here, but this is unacceptable. The distribution company needs a kick up the arse frankly, judging by the number of comments posted on a month by month basis.
Not only is this is a fast way to lose business, it inevitably reflects badly on the magazine itself, which is presumably blameless!
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I should write them a stiff letter.
On cardboard.
Look
"Is is something BARGEPOLE said" come on man pull yourself together!
Maybe the distribution company only deliver
to every third person.
Post of the year.
Don't care if there are still 11 months to go!
Typical
JoLean gives me gag of the week and 4 hours later this. I give up.
That was...
...the funniest thing I've ever read here! :-D
But, but, but ..
... then I would not get mine, you would not get yours, but Bargepole would get his.
Shurely
Bargepole would get Bargepoles? Note, no apostrophe required.
That's
Quite brilliant.
Or only to the first-born?
Mine came early (magazine, not first-born).
Apologies
Bargepole's standards are slipping due to lack of reading material!
More power to your elbow sir!
You're in good company. This is Kenny Dalglish explaining that 'the football club's more important than Kenny Dalglish...'
I've no objection to the use of the 3rd person -
it's part of bargepole's appeal - but the lack of a question mark is beyond the pale. There's simply no excuse for poor punctuation.
My copy arrived this morning. But for the last 6 months or so, the mag's been in the shops before I get to see my copy so it's situation (ab)normal.
Sorry you haven't received your copy yet
As always, we'll happily replace any issues that don't show up. As for the distribution company (it's DHL), we spend an enormous amount of time badgering them to ensure that issues get delivered to schedule. And while we're a very small fish in a very large pond and don't have the clout that other publishers do, we're pretty happy with the service they provide, although some locations do seem to be better served than others. But overall, they certainly do a better job than anyone else we've tried.
Something changed...
several months ago. I'd always get the new edition at the beginning of the month, around the time it hit the stands and I'm down in the south of France. But since the summer it's been later in the month or not at all and I've had to chase it up...and I'm still waiting for January's.
Of course, it's not the end of the world...but boy is it frustrating.
It was Sarah Palin's fault obviously
Not content with having slain Gerry Rafferty four times she still had blood in her nostrils and showed no mercy towards Bargey's copy. No mention of it on Fox News. Mmmmmph. Says it all.
Third person angst in general...
...this seems a good place to relate an incident of minor irritation that happened to me on Monday, which I've just remembered. The reason it was an issue of only minor irritation was because it was during an emergency appointment with my dentist, and I was - no, you're ahead me - suffering a rather more major irritation at the time.
'So, how is Colin doing today...?' said my dentist, in The World's Most Annoying Sing-Song Nursery School Teacher Voice, as an opening gambit.
This was strange because (a) I wouldn't have booked an emergency appointment that very morning if I was fine and dandy, and (b) I'm a grown adult with no learning difficulties.
'Colin has a rather painful toothache today,' I replied.
I know she means well but, dear oh dear, the sound of her voice and ridiculous Ballymory intonation gives toothache a close run for its money.
Is this something they're taught at dentistry school ?
my dentist speaks exactly like yours ( well, apart from the Ballymory intonation ) which I find very embarrassing.
I'm older than her, I am physically larger than her, but she tilts her head and speaks to me as if I am her child, and if I just open wide I can have a cookie after.
I suppose they think this is calming, but it makes me nervous.
Last time I went there she and her nurse both patted me on the head and said how good I was and it would soon be over, and when I made a joke to break my uncomfortable mood the nurse laughed and then she took my face in her hands and rubbed it vigorously, like you would do to a puppy. Bizarre ( plus she still had her latex gloves on, so it wasn't very cosy... )!
I'm brushing and flossing like never before so I won't have to go back too often, so I guess that's a good thing at least!
'She took my face in her hands and rubbed it vigorously'
while wearing latex gloves. Some people would pay good money for that kind of treatment. Have you got your dentist's contact details?
Its Lena Law
from Portsmouth. She'd recently been shopping in Transformation in Eversholt Street.
Aha
Now I understand why it was so expensive!
I guess the name of the clinic should have tipped me off, but at the time Oral Paradise seemed perfectly normal to me...;)
It's a deal breaker....
For me, the key benefit of any magazine subscription is fast, reliable delivery.
As it stands, I'm not getting that - my copy often arrives later than it reaches the newsstands.
I'm now at the point where maintaining the subscription is looking like it's more trouble than it's worth.
Spare key
Call me Leon Russell if you like, but to me the key benefit of any magazine subscription is the substantial discount on the cover price.
Admittedly, as I am in the Philippines and, unwilling to pay the large charges for international delivery, have my copies delivered to my mother back in the UK to collect when I return periodically, fast delivery is not so important to me.
I don't know how work is coming along on electronic delivery, and I appreciate there are lots of problems with it, not least piracy, but I'd be delighted to have a timely Kindle edition (I know the Kindle, unlike the world, is black and white, but, for me, and I imagine others, it's the words that matter, just as it's the Word that matters (c) Me 2011), distribution of which would be a doddle.
My copy has arrived, but...
No CD inside the package! I knw I've said a few times that I don't buy the mag for the CD, but if I'm paying for it and all.... The again, maybe it really was somehting I said about CD.
As said above, the service has also got later over the past few moonths - even before the weather hit.
Drop me a line with your address
And we'll post a replacement. Fraser AT wordmagazine DOT co DOT uk.
I subscribe to a free mag...
..called Bido Lito from Liverpool because I can't always get over there to pick up a copy. So bleeding annoying when it does arrive late after I've paid for the delivery that many gigs have been and gone. Good little mag though.
In defence of the subs team...
... I'm seeing delays on the two other magazines I subscribe to including Time Out. They told me that although the bad weather has eased there are still substantial mail backlogs across the UK. Magazines are regarded as 'parcels' and are being given second priority behind standard letters. Included in their 'letters' category will be several million delayed bills across the country, and some Christmas cards of which I've received three this week. Still a tad frustrating but understandable in the circumstances.
Late delivery
I found out that my Mum & Dad received a Christmas card from me and my wife yesterday, that was sent when I was living in the US.
The postmark on the envelope read 10th December......2007.
Now, that's late.
Singapore
My copy arrived in Singapore today which seems to be just over a week after the UK subscribers received, which is about what I expect.
Its been late the past couple of issues, but hopefully this is a sign that all back on track.
Well...
...my Word has turned up on time (which it normally does, although had a couple of months at the end of the year where it didn't turn up at all. I then heard my postie whistle a Nick Lowe song. There's a conspiracy theory right there) but other mags to which I subscribe (Private Eye, Vogue and Harpers) were all late.
Well
Jimmyshoes01 will be buying his in the shops today much to the chagrin of the Word team.
Jimmyshoes01refuses to go the subscription route because of the reported delays.
Jimmyshoes01 is going for lunch.