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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
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 15:00:30 1984
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR.
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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]