Michael Grace
Lifetime Member
Fellow WCHA members,
Many of us in the United States may have experienced a long delay in receiving the Spring issue of Wooden Canoe (in fact, my own copy hasn't arrived yet). While delivery to Canada and overseas seems to have been efficient, there has been an inordinately long delay in US deliveries despite the fact that the journal was completed and printed on time. In fact, our editor Chris Eden had the journal fully prepared and off to the printer well before our deadline, and the publisher had it printed and mailed by May 12.
By the end of May when the journal had not arrived in mailboxes, we initiated inquiries with the publisher, who in turn began a trace with the US Postal Service. We were told that the journal had been received and processed through the initial USPS sorting centers. After an unusually long time, US members in western states began receiving journals in early June. Even so, by Monday morning of this week (June 15), journals were still not in most mailboxes in the central and eastern US. Thus as planned in early June, we pressed even harder for answers and began following through on other means of getting journals to all members. But suddenly that same day, the logjam began to break...
We were pleasantly surprised when members began reporting Monday afternoon that journals were arriving in mailboxes in IL, NY, NH, MA, ME, GA and elsewhere, so we are confident that - finally - the journal seems to be arriving across the entire country. Delays may have been caused by effects of the pandemic and/or the civil unrest happening in many cities , but in any case we are pleased that journals are finally arriving. Rest assured that our editor and publisher did their parts in getting the journal prepared, printed and mailed on time if not early. Neither the editor nor publisher have ever experienced such a mail delay before, so we hope this doesn't happen again. To help ensure so, we are initiating a USPS "track and trace" program for future issues of the journal.
If you haven't yet received the Spring 2020 issue of the journal, it should be arriving soon. If you still don't receive it, please let Executive Director Annie Burke know and we will ensure that a copy gets to you as quickly as possible.
Thank you for your patience,
Michael
Many of us in the United States may have experienced a long delay in receiving the Spring issue of Wooden Canoe (in fact, my own copy hasn't arrived yet). While delivery to Canada and overseas seems to have been efficient, there has been an inordinately long delay in US deliveries despite the fact that the journal was completed and printed on time. In fact, our editor Chris Eden had the journal fully prepared and off to the printer well before our deadline, and the publisher had it printed and mailed by May 12.
By the end of May when the journal had not arrived in mailboxes, we initiated inquiries with the publisher, who in turn began a trace with the US Postal Service. We were told that the journal had been received and processed through the initial USPS sorting centers. After an unusually long time, US members in western states began receiving journals in early June. Even so, by Monday morning of this week (June 15), journals were still not in most mailboxes in the central and eastern US. Thus as planned in early June, we pressed even harder for answers and began following through on other means of getting journals to all members. But suddenly that same day, the logjam began to break...
We were pleasantly surprised when members began reporting Monday afternoon that journals were arriving in mailboxes in IL, NY, NH, MA, ME, GA and elsewhere, so we are confident that - finally - the journal seems to be arriving across the entire country. Delays may have been caused by effects of the pandemic and/or the civil unrest happening in many cities , but in any case we are pleased that journals are finally arriving. Rest assured that our editor and publisher did their parts in getting the journal prepared, printed and mailed on time if not early. Neither the editor nor publisher have ever experienced such a mail delay before, so we hope this doesn't happen again. To help ensure so, we are initiating a USPS "track and trace" program for future issues of the journal.
If you haven't yet received the Spring 2020 issue of the journal, it should be arriving soon. If you still don't receive it, please let Executive Director Annie Burke know and we will ensure that a copy gets to you as quickly as possible.
Thank you for your patience,
Michael
