New Yorker Magazine Delivered Later and Later in the Week

It used to arrive on Tuesday (occasionally on Monday). Now it's Thursday or Friday. Anybody else experiencing the same thing?

mine comes to my office and still comes on tuesday. but it comes to my office because when i was having it delivered to my apartment, the magazine suspended my subscription after getting a notice from the post office that my address was undeliverable. bottom line: brooklyn mail is sketch city. you are lucky it's coming at all.

I got it today, Last week I got it on Friday. I've tried calling New Yorker and they variously say, It isn't late until the date on the cover and sometimes tell me to take it up with the post office myself.

By comparison when I had a problem with Time Out New York, they were very nice and said they'd have the post office monitor it and it has been coming on time ever since

I just wrote to their customer service and we'll see what they say.

Jack - has your mag always come late or did it get worse recently?

Mine came today. Used to come at the beginning of the week.

VoodooNYC wrote: Mine came today. Used to come at the beginning of the week.

hmmm....I wonder if this is a Brooklyn mail thing (everything else seems to be fine - my Netflix always come next day, etc.) or a New Yorker thing.

Got mine yesterday.

Flexichick wrote: hmmm....I wonder if this is a Brooklyn mail thing (everything else seems to be fine - my Netflix always come next day, etc.) or a New Yorker thing.

Not sure, but I demand accountability. Damn it.

VoodooNYC wrote: [quote=Flexichick]hmmm....I wonder if this is a Brooklyn mail thing (everything else seems to be fine - my Netflix always come next day, etc.) or a New Yorker thing.

Not sure, but I demand accountability. Damn it.

Did you call/write?

It's funny that I want mine because I have a pile of unfinished ones lying around

I have always thought of it as being late. In my mind when you send me a magazine that has listings in it of things that are going on if I get the magazine and some of those dates are past it is late. The way the New Yorker looks at it is you should receive the magazine by the date on the cover, even though there are many listings for the previous week.

BrooklynJack wrote: I have always thought of it as being late. In my mind when you send me a magazine that has listings in it of things that are going on if I get the magazine and some of those dates are past it is late. The way the New Yorker looks at it is you should receive the magazine by the date on the cover, even though there are many listings for the previous week.

I agree about the listings. It's a shame that is the position they took. Plus, I have had problems with magazines before and they almost always extended my subscription a bit "for my trouble"

My scripts are always late. Same with my across the street neighbor, mpmav. I chalk it up to the park slope post office.

scarlett wrote: My scripts are always late. Same with my across the street neighbor, mpmav. I chalk it up to the park slope post office.

are you talking about all of them, or just the New Yorker? Because I don't have a problem receiving anything else

scarlett wrote: My scripts are always late. Same with my across the street neighbor, mpmav. I chalk it up to the park slope post office.

are you talking about subscriptions or prescriptions?

...I certainly want you to get the latter on time. This thread started pretty lame, but is now uncovering something that may endanger us all.

I'm talking about Time Out and New York. But, I call my magic antipsychotic pills my subscriptions so I didn't want there to be any confusion. Sorry, whynot, all my other scripts are always on time and stockpiled in the event I have to kill myself.

so dramatic. Don't do it.
I would truly miss my favorite nemesis.

^you two need to get a room .....or your own thread :-)

Vomitous!

We prefer to battle each other in everyone else's threads.

scarlett wrote: Vomitous!

We prefer to battle each other in everyone else's threads.

...especially exciting ones like this one.

ugh. I wouldn't know if mine arrived Weds, since all my mail was for the wrong building. Must have been a sub . . .

It used to arrive Tuesdays.

I got this response:
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We're sorry, but we do not yet have the November 9, 2009 issue in stock as we allow until November 9, 2009, for it to be delivered to your address. If you have not received this issue by then, please notify us.

At that time, we will make arrangements to compensate your account for a missed issue.

Thank you for your patience.

You may visit our website to access your account online at http://www.newyorker.com/


Simply click on "Subscription Questions" in the upper right corner of the main page, and you will be directed to the Customer Care page to access your account.

Your account number will be required for entry: xxxxxx

If you should need further assistance, please be sure to include all previous e-mail correspondence.

Thank you again for your interest in The New Yorker.

Sincerely,

Shar
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I wrote back and said they obviously didn't read my note as this is a CONSTANT issue and not pertaining to one missed issue. Dingbats. Am going to call them too

sometimes an issue would never come, for no reason, and when i would ask them to send me a copy they would just extend my subscription by a week. but that is not what i needed, and i'm sure they could have done what i'd asked. there are always remainder copies. their customer service is efficient in a time-elapsed sense, but poor in an actual service sense. but, like i said, i think the slow delivery is a brooklyn/park slope problem. i had some problems when i lived in crown heights, but not as many, and i don't have problems now that it's delivered to manhattan. maybe the magazine is punishing us for being outer-borough dwellers and still thinking we have a right to know what's going on in the real new york. i blame david remnick.

Subject: Magazine Subscriptions

I used to have a problem with New York Magazine coming really late in the week and I imagined someone in the post office was reading it and then returning it to its proper place after a few days. A couple of months ago I didn't get my issue at all and called New York Magazine the following Monday and they seemed pretty ridiculous to me, but they extended my subscription another week. Don't magazines print tons of extra copies of their magazines and always have them lying around for staff and missing issues problems? It's pretty ridiculous that they couldn't send me a copy of a magazine I subscribe to.

I get my timeout anywhere from Wed to Sat, and sometimes not at all (it should come on Weds, I believe.) However, I get most of my mail so I'm not going to complain...when I lived in bedstuy I routinely didn't get ANY mail for days (11 days at one point, then a giant rubber-banded bundle of almost-late bills)

My New Yorker arrived in Thursday's mail, which might be the new normal.

Anybody know how magazine subs are handled at the post office? It's not like flyers they add in bulk or something...

brokechick wrote: bottom line: brooklyn mail is sketch city. you are lucky it's coming at all.

Look on the bright side: at least we don't live in Detroit.