Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Why magazine subscriptions arrive late Message-ID: <509@orca.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 15:00:30 EST Article-I.D.: orca.509 Posted: Sun Jan 29 15:00:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 02:41:46 EST References: <5018@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR. Lines: 19 This has nothing to do with micros, but there is evidently some interest ... The complaint is that you get your subscription copy of BYTE magazine a full week after you see it appear on the newstands. You feel that BYTE is ripping you off? Not at all: BYTE sends a box of a dozen or more magazines via UPS to the newstand, and they send you a single magazine via second class USPS mail. UPS delivers parcels in a couple of days, but second class mail often takes a week or more. Why don't they sent your magazine by first class instead of second class? Because it costs a *lot* more. First class mail is $0.20 for the first ounce, $0.17 for each additional ounce. Try weighing your issue of BYTE; you'll find that first class delivery would cost over a dollar. Would you want to pay an extra twelve bucks a year to get it sooner? -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]