North south divide

[Hugh Robjohns]

Yes, he delivered mine this morning and said he was on his way up to the North next...

[MOF]

Yes, he delivered mine this morning and said he was on his way up to the North next...

Good, that means Nottingham next.

[Drew Stephenson]

We'll have to get the driver one of those deliveroo GPS trackers so we can see where they've got to.

[Martin Walker]

We'll have to get the driver one of those deliveroo GPS trackers so we can see where they've got to.

Those 'your driver is currently here' maps are all very well, but when waiting in for a driver to deliver a parcel to me I've noticed that sometimes they can be in the next street, then drive several miles away, and then come back to me, so I'm not sure their route planning is particularly optimised

Martin

[Drew Stephenson]

I've wondered about that as well. You'd think by 2021 we'd have got to grips with the Travelling Salesman problem!

But maybe we have, my copy arrived this morning.

[Drew Stephenson]

Here we go again.

(Not that I'm prone to exaggeration)

[Hugh Robjohns]

It seems the dividing line has moved a long way South this month. My paper issue is awol too.... if that makes you feel any less isolated.

[James Perrett]

After checking in our lad's room (because he's started hijacking my copy almost as soon as it gets through the door) it seems the line is less than 20 miles from the south coast.

[Hugh Robjohns]

Update: my copy has just crashed through the letterbox!

[Drew Stephenson]

I thought mine had arrived but it turned out to be a 13mm socket that doesn't fit. It's long not deep. I might try and drill it out.

[MOF]

My copy arrived yesterday, I live in Nottingham.

[Hugh Robjohns]

He is the favoured one!

[Martin Walker]

Oh no, the Cornish postal system has finally also succumbed to hiding the latest issue of SOS.

No show for me as yet either

Martin

[MOF]

He is the favoured one!

If only.

[Drew Stephenson]

Oh no, the Cornish postal system has finally also succumbed to hiding the latest issue of SOS.

No show for me as yet either

Martin

It's almost as if we have a national logistics problem or something...

[Forum Admin]

Martin et al,

The UK edition only went on sale this Thursday 21st and the subs copies posted off on 20th, so they are likely to arrive Monday/Tuesday of this coming week for UK subscribers.

If your copy has not arrived midweek, please email support@soundonsound.com and it opens a Zendesk ticket and a replacement mag will be posted out (which goes via a more expensive, non-bulk delivery, Royal Mail service, so that copy usually will turn up).

Why do we not use this RM service all the time then? Well it would triple the subscription cost to end users and thus make them unviable if we did. Magazine publishers use the RM 'magazine' bulk delivery service - which used to be good...

It does take longer to get mags into the EU since a certain event happened.

US/Canada mags are printed separately in the USA and typically don't finish printing until a week after our UK edition, as the layouts are made from the UK versions, new US adverts dropped in and uploaded to our US printer, hence US/Canada mailouts are always a week later too and it's a much bigger country so delivery takes longer there too.

[Martin Walker]

Thanks for the info Ian, but it's good news at this end - my copy arrived later on Saturday afternoon

Martin

[Forum Admin]

...my copy arrived later on Saturday afternoon

I drove it down to Cornwall personally and slipped it through your letterbox, so you'd be able to post nice things today... [joke]

Seriously, that's good to know it arrived. Once mags leave our UK printers, it's up to the Gods (Royal Mail) that copies arrive with everyone.

[Drew Stephenson]

The divide has been bridged! The chasm crossed! The metaphor extended long past the point of necessity!
Magazine arrived this morning.
Cheers

[Hugh Robjohns]

[Drew Stephenson]

Good news! We don't need HS2! My subscription has arrived on time.
And 5 days quicker than Private Eye I note...

[Hugh Robjohns]

Still waiting for my copy in the middle lands... You win this month!

[MOF]

Still waiting for my copy in the middle lands... You win this month!

I live in the east of the middle lands, my copy arrived today, it’s probably down to slow trains, so until HS2’s first leg to Birmingham is completed you’ll have to put up with later deliveries Hugh.

[Forum Admin]

Not sure Royal Mail use mail trains any longer? Hope they do - but think it likely to be those large mail lorries one sees on the motorways.