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Sports Illustrated Delivery Delay

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Oct 11, 2011.

  1. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    I thought this was just me. It went from Wednesdays to Thursdays to Fridays to, the last two weeks, Saturdays. I'm pretty pissed off about it. I'll call up the company if I get it on Saturdays again. By that point, a lot of the material is outdated.
     
  2. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Obviously something has changed. Wonder if SI has opted for cheaper postage.

    Hopefully someone from SI can shed some light on it for us.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    It needs to be there by Friday at the latest...
     
  4. Simon

    Simon Active Member

    I recently re-subscribed and its annoying me that SI posts every story online on Tuesday and I don't get it until Thursday.
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    I haven't been getting it a week late, but on Monday instead of Thursday or Friday.
    Wonderful to read the preview for the weekend's football games after they've been played...
     
  6. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    We need to speak out. Everyone with these issues, call customer service at 1-877-747-1045. Something is clearly wrong.
     
  7. AndrewPaPreps

    AndrewPaPreps Member

    Sounds like a regional issue. I get both SI and Rolling Stone. My Sports Illustrated always arrives on Thursday or Friday.

    My Rolling Stone is more hit-and-miss. It's supposed to arrive on Fridays, but I've gotten it on Mondays lately (it landed today because of the holiday).
     
  8. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Wake me when it's the swimsuit issue.
     
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Make sure you ask to be elevated to specialist. Otherwise you get
    Peggy in 3rd world country.
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    A possible answer in local Patch:

    At Camp Avenue, she said, new flat-sorting machines, designed to handle larger pieces of mail and to improve service in the long run, have meant some adjustment and likely accounted for the delay in the receipt of magazines.

    Christine Dugas, a spokesperson for the CT Valley District, US Postal Service, said the Flat Sequencing System, recently added at Camp Avenueis the latest in automated sorting equipment. Part of the Postal System's efforts to trim costs, it cuts down on hand mail sorting by carriers, enabling them to make additional deliveries.

    Regarding the concern about late deliveries of magazines, which are handled by this system, she promised that they would look into any delays which may be occuring at Camp Avenue.
     
  11. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    I've been told by PEOPLE INSIDE that hand-sorting has been specificially-banned in many offices when handling first-class mail. What this means is:
    if the machine doesn't catch it, it's going to get misrouted. In other words, look out below.
     
  12. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I can't even get into my account on RS's online customer service site to bitch about not receiving the mag.
     
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