Issue 62?

Still nothing. Don’t know where the hell it is. Ordered a chain from Merlin on Sunday and that arrived yesterday.

Only live 35mile odd from the printer too.

Not often wondered ‘why subscribe’ as I get it as a gift at chrimbo. Who’s ever used the 10% off in the shop thing? I don’t go to half of them cos they’re miles away!

Getting grumpy now. Off for a jaffa cake.

Ha ha. happy Christmas. Yes, I am a print subscriber (why would that concern you?) No, my issue hasn’t arrived. No, I’m not particularly bothered…because it’s a magazine. Not a new liver.

Anyway, I hope for your daughter’s sake you try and put the tragedy of the delayed post behind you, and have a wonderful Christmas.

EDIT: that’s for our cheerful little Christmas elf lazlo.

i got a copy from sainsburys last week with the cover on the wrong way up!!!!! what the hell is the world coming too? got some proper funny looks on the train on monday.

dear sc-xc, thank you for your concern, but please f off, it’s not a tragedy, and you’re guilty of raising the stakes by suggesting such, But it is an increasing trend that subscriber issues are arriving later. And thank you for your concern about our daughter? she’s just handed in her mfil thesis, I’m sure she’ll be interested in your view on anything. Unlike her Father

a milf thesis? interesting 😀

dear sc-xc, instant ban, **** off

btw, sc-xc, that wasn’t **** off

OK mate, no offence intended. Apologies.

i think you pair need to go sit down and have a cuppa. maybe thumb through a magazine…….

Thanks for that sc-xc, things get distorted on a forum

Yeah, when I get one Toppers

sorry mate. couldnt resist. but seriously, its xmas. chill.

happy christmas.

by the way, what is a mfil thesis?

Ok topper, degree, mphil, doctorate. In three years time, when you talk to our little girl, you will say ‘excuse me Doctor’

fair play. you sound proud of her. as you should be.

hope your mag turns up mate.

lazlo53 it’s a magazine, get a grip.

Not got mine yet either!
Might pelt the postie with snowballs tomorrow!!!

wow there is so much anger on this forum. i’ve only been here a few months but have been really surprised by the number of arguments, especially ones that get personal :O

whoops that had nothing to do with the topic did it….err well i bought my magazine from a newsagents in the centre of london, as i have done since about issue 58. strange thing is i can never find it in any of the big ‘whsmiths’ type places for some reason – always end up in this little gaff in the tube station near work.

I’ve not got mine either, but neither have I got WMTB which is also out in Smiths. There are also various parcels that were apparently dispatched 2-3 weeks ago that still haven’t arrived. I don’t think we can blame ST for this one. Most of the time I get my issue within a day or so of when they say I will.

Nothing again in Berkshire. 🙁

Or just down the road in Hampshire 😕

Where is STW printed, and how come all the newsagents have copies and we the subscriberes dont.Not all the country has been snowed under just the scots who were to tight to buy enough salt 😀

What tis the responce from Royal cockup mail, surely they know which postie has failed in their job sorting out the delivery schedule.

In sunny wirrla ,we have had no snow, a bit of frost, and the postie arrives about 10.30am, without STW, so just what has happened to the delivery , oh and our mail is delivered from Chester again no snow or bad weather.

Its just total incompetence from royal mail soon to be privatised to teach them a lesson hopefully.

Petty rant mode off.

Still not here in Derby. To be fair the first 61 all appeared promptly and my life does not depend on it. It will turn up sometime and sure I will enjoy it when it does.

Singletrack is printed in Bourne, Lincs. That’s where RM collected it from early last week. They collect the issues on one big batch and it goes via a service called Presstream. This is a bulk mail service that requires us to presort the mail down to local depot level. This means that these copies can bypass the first two levels of sorting and get delivered directly to your local depot ready for the postie to pop in his bag and deliver to you. This service has a promise of delivery in up to 3 days from collection.

I’m still waiting for an official response from RM as to why this has happened and to when they are likely to have cleared the backlog. It’s frustrating because priority is given to the other mail services before Presstream, despite the fact that to access this service we do the vast majority of RM’s sorting work for them. But still, it seems when working through the backlog of mail RM give priority to 1st class then 2nd class and then Presstream and mailsort (junk mail comes via mailsort). I’m quite annoyed that RM consider paid for subscription copies of magazines to be no better than junk mail when it comes to prioritising deliveries.

Anyway, frustrated rants aside there are a few things we can do to try and reduce the chances of this happening again in the future. Those measures will kick in from issue 64 (March issue)

As soon as I hear from RM I will update this thread.

Still nothing in Glasgow 🙁

I’m also waiting on items from Play that were posted back on the 6th!

Thanks for update Mark.

B’Bob – I am also waiting for something from Play since the 7th.

Woop.

Mines arrived.

Still not here.

We should all send threatening letters to royal mail, can somebody clever draft a letter please.

This should work:

Dear Royal Mail.

I am Mark King from Level 42.

Sincerely,

Mark King

Mark, there is something you could do right now (rather than from issue 64) – give us a free download of this issue.

It’s here, despite the snow shower that briefly hit the south coast!

Mark, there is something you could do right now (rather than from issue 64) – give us a free download of this issue.

Erm, they already did this at the start of the week.

Posties been, still nothing.

What matthewlhome said..

The story on the front page has had a download version of the mag for several days now.

If you haven’t yet upgraded your sub (for free) to premier then you need to do that before you can access the file. subs@singletrackworld.com with your name, username on here and your subs address and we’ll get that switched on for you.

As a forum I think everyone has SAD – a few dark nights and anger management problems and depression abound.

A magazine is a few days late, no-one has died, it’s really not the end of the world (although I suspect a few posties might get it from some forum members soon)

Given the problems faced by Royal Mail this December I suspect it’s well down their priority list. I went to collect a parcel from my sorting office yesterday and there were packages stacked up from floor to ceiling.

I looked on the site earlier this am for the upgrade option only to find that this service was temporarily disabled in the run up to Christmas.

Downloaded issue 62 on to my phone and reading it on the train how cool is that

Before the torrent of abuse 1960s child

supposed to be my 1st issue and no sign 🙁

The form to upgrade will be back up and running shortly. The reason it was down was because of the sheer number of upgrade requests we had been getting. We’ve cleared through the backlog now and we are ready to go again..