RE: AIS Bulletin - mailing

With regard to bulk mail, each stop it makes along the way, it can be held
for up to three days prior to processing. This does not mean it will be
held, but the chance is there.  The more post offices a piece hits along the
way, the longer it can take to reach your mail box.

\\Steve//
No. Virginia, Zone 6/7

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of
bfilardi@attbi.com
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:04 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] AIS Bulletin - mailing


Hi all:  I tried to post this last night, but for some reason it never
posted.
maybe I did something wrong.  Anyway, here's another try:

Since a few people asked how the Bulletin is distributed, let me volunteer
the
info!

All US and Canadian Bulletins are mailed on the same day from Portland,
Oregon.  (I know the upper right-hand corner says something like "postage
paid
in Glendale, CA, etc." but that's because Jill Bonino, as AIS Secretary,
takes
care of the permit in her hometown of Glendale.)  The US copies go via bulk
mail, and - oddly enough - the people in Salem, OR, almost always get theirs
a
day ahead of the people in Portland (including me).

The Bulletins for Canadian members go First Class, because they used to take
so
long when they were mailed via bulk.  And copies to all other countries
outside
the US go to a mailing service on the East Coast, and from there they go
overseas.

I've been hearing pretty good things about the shrinkwrap.  To tell the
truth,
I was not fully in favor of the shrinkwrap because I was afraid the
Bulletins
would get damaged en route.  As it turns out, I think my own copy arrived in
even better condition in the shrink wrap than it would have in the envelope.

We will go back to using the envelope for one more issue (April) so that we
can
use up the supply of envelopes that were already printed.  And then we'll
return to the shrinkwrap from then on, as long as I don't hear that people
have
had problems with it.

Bruce

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