Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Things I never thought would disappear Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:12:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:12:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="29559bd2521abf15fac104de604da43d"; logging-data="744826"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/70ALjXdqKe1QEG1My1Bue" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:FP3z8QhYKVM/FbjJutZB2pGWlXI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2140 On 10/13/24 11:03 AM, Paul Dormer wrote: > In article , evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com > (Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote: > >> >> FWIW, the MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, which had been >> coming in a manila envelope, now comes naked, with an address label >> on the back. (Thank Ghod it's on the back.) > > I've only had one issue of that this year - Ansible did report production > problems recently - and I think that was in the usual envelope. > > Some magazines arrive in what are described as "compostable" wrappings, > although a correspondence in New Scientist a while back disputed that. > Most others arrive in plastic or paper envelopes. Ours just arrived a few days ago. It was the Summer issue. Yours may take longer since you're in the UK. -- No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him. -Mohamad Safa