June issue of GRM never showed up. No big deal, called and got a hookup. Now- I've not gotten my August issue...... and this is a problem. It's only my GRM's that are missing. What's even stranger is, my giant box of them turned up smashed, but otherwise complete, and the magazines were not damaged or like, drooled on or anything. Guess I get to go yell at the post office.
What's the mail truck look like?
Has there been a "what car, postal edition" here recently?
There are a number of people who touch your mail before your mailman lays a finger on it.
Not saying it's not him, but I wouldn't jump to that conclusion either.
Most mailmen also have enough spare time in their routes to read an entire magazine cover to cover. Doubt they'd keep it.
In reply to mndsm:
Interesting, when we first moved up here to Northern NV I had the same problem with a couple of car mags. GRM usually made it through eventually, but one I still get from the UK (Practical Performance Car) never made it until they started sending it in plain envelopes instead of just with an address sticker attached.
My mailman is awful. Just about every day I get someone else's mail. I'm sure some of mine goes elsewhere. Things end up missing. Its gotten so bad that I tell customers not to mail checks to me because I'm not sure they will get here.
My mailman is friendly and accurate. I've tipped him at Chistmas but I never got a thank you.
My brothers F-I-law is a career mailman and said you don't tip again if no thank you notes come back.
Is Wally a mailman? Or is it Woody?
Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.
mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.
That's kinda close, right?
I miss my old mailman.. he was great. The one I have now.. she does a decent job, but is decidedly anti-social. One place I lived at, they used to cram all the mail into the box no matter what. When I went to complain I was basically told that we were lucky to even get mail.
I'm pretty sure our town mailman can't read. Seriously. 
Datsun310Guy wrote:mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.That's kinda close, right?
I have a mailman.
tr8todd wrote: My mailman is awful. Just about every day I get someone else's mail. I'm sure some of mine goes elsewhere. Things end up missing. Its gotten so bad that I tell customers not to mail checks to me because I'm not sure they will get here.
sorta the same thing here … 'cept it wasn't my mailman .. it was my aging Dad … things like CC bills would end up stashed somewhere … who knows where … so I got a PO box
our mailman was GREAT he'd drive all the way up our driveway and deliver to the back door (sheltered from the elements) to leave packages that wouldn't fit in the roadside mailbox …. he moved on to a new route (he ALWAYS got a Christmas present)
the current shiny happy person that delivers our mail, can't even get the door of the roadside box to close properly … many times I've found it hanging open and sometimes the mail scattered by the wind … no Christmas present EVER for this one
I've showed him how to close the box (you'd think this was something he'd already have figured out) shrug
I realize that if I complain to the postmistress that it'll just cause me more problems .. so I've slowly changed more and more things to come to my PO box
As part of their general slide into stripped-down mediocrity, the postal service now has a lot of machines processing the mail that they KNOW destroy a certain percentage of it--a percentage that is getting larger as fewer humans work in the system. Thicker/larger mail pieces take an especially hard hit.
GRM, at over 200 pages, is one of the (if not the) largest car magazines. The post office just chews many of them up, envelope or no envelope.
Sadly, they don't tell us who they screw, nevermind, you know, give back the postage they didn't earn.
It's a sad situation, and it's getting worse, not better.
Margie
Woody wrote:Datsun310Guy wrote:I have a mailman.mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.That's kinda close, right?
Against their free will?
mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.
Sounds like the first line of a Dylan song to me.
Our mailman is pretty good. We kinda terrorize him, though. There used to be a family of wasps (the bugs, not the old white guys) who kept building a nest in our mailbox and our mailman finally just put a note on the front saying he's not giving us our mail if there are wasps in the box.
Marjorie Suddard wrote: As part of their general slide into stripped-down mediocrity... It's a sad situation, and it's getting worse, not better.
It never is going to get better until people realize what a freaking bargain it is when you can send someone a document across 4000 miles for less than half a buck, and quit bitching when the stamp price goes up a few cents.
I understand that a few cents times 30,000 magazines is a considerable sum to you. I'm talking about the general public.
slantvaliant wrote:mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.Sounds like the first line of a Dylan song to me.
Or the opening scene of some 70s porno.
The mail system has been losing money since email became commonplace, we are going to either lose our Post Office or have severely restricted hours after a town meeting this week
Seriously.. Contact these guys. https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/
They take this stuff seriously and Loooooove to convict people. Trust me.
Duke wrote:Marjorie Suddard wrote: As part of their general slide into stripped-down mediocrity... It's a sad situation, and it's getting worse, not better.It never *is* going to get better until people realize what a freaking *bargain* it is when you can send someone a document across 4000 miles for less than half a buck, and quit bitching when the stamp price goes up a few cents. I understand that a few cents times 30,000 magazines is a considerable sum to you. I'm talking about the general public.
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Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:slantvaliant wrote:Or the opening scene of some 70s porno.mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.Sounds like the first line of a Dylan song to me.
I think it's a Garth Brooks song.
On a related note:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/tech-tips/tech-tip-dont-mail-the-berkleying-keys/88876/page1/
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:slantvaliant wrote:Or the opening scene of some 70s porno.mndsm wrote: Woody is a Fireman, Wally drives a bus.Sounds like the first line of a Dylan song to me.
I swear, it was an "art film"..,
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