<VV> First Class Pain/ Communique

[tim mahler]

I'm not going to fret about what happened 20 years ago.  I can't change what 
happened back then.

In the present:
    Until the last month or two,  I was receiving the Commununique  within 
5-7 days of it being dropped off at the post office.  The last two months 
have reverted to last year -- 3 weeks after being dropped off at the post 
office.

This seems to affect certain areas more than others -- other end of 
month/first of month mailings?  maybe.  I have not received my April edition 
.....yet.    I live on the Illinois side of the River.  May be Mid month if 
it doesn't get further delayed by the annual tax filing ritual.
So much for being president.

e-Communique -- as a supplement to members, in the members area -- has and 
is being discussed by the board.  KEY WORD -- Supplement.   Some key items 
need to be discussed. The CORSA web site is now getting organized to make it 
a possibility.   Other changes to on-line content has and will be 
discussed -- but it takes TIME.   Are other items on the priority list, 
can't do everything all at once, even though we try sometimes.  the idea of 
First Class mailing may be obsolete at this point.

tim mahler
62, 68 Fitch Sprint


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Sethracer at aol.com>
To: <kaczmarek at charter.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:55 PM
Subject: <VV> First Class Pain


>
> In a message dated 4/4/2008 11:47:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> kaczmarek at charter.net writes:
>
> Back 20  years ago, I was told the Directors got their copies "Earlier" 
> than
> everyone  else.
>
> There was no internet, and no "CORSA CLASSIFIEDS" online. The  Internet 
> was
> still in the fertile mind of Al Gore, its inventor. (SORRY,  COULDN'T 
> RESIST)
>
> At shows I would hear about how a guy saw an ad the  day he got his 
> magazine
> and would call and find out a Director bought it a  week before.   Pissed 
> some
> folks off.
>
>
>
>
> You know, Hank, that would piss me off too. And it happened - one time. 
> The
> director received a lot of flak, at least within the board, at the  time. 
> And
> it has been re-told a thousand times. And that was 20+ years  ago. And you
> don't have to go to a show, just read VV!
>
> The next part of your note:
>
> "With todays internet, it wouldn't matter if anyone got their copy earlier
> than anyone else. Check the Online Classifieds and you'll likely see the 
> ads
> before they ever get laid out for the magazine."
>
> I agree with this. See part of my note to the Corsa BOD:
>
> . Folks - I know that the argument about First Class shipping of the
> Communique goes back at least 20 years. The main resistance to offering a 
> First
> Class shipping option was the argument that the people who paid extra for 
> first
> class would get the classified ads first, creating a second class 
> membership.
> (There were other issues to be addressed, too.) I think the
> Internet/E-bay/Craig's list, as well as our own on-line ads have taken 
> that out  of the
> equation. Splitting the mailing would probably cause more work for  M&P. 
> That would
> have to be addressed in their contract - and paid for by the  increased 
> cost
> for a first class Communique. But the issue must be addressed.  Harry and 
> Mike
> are smart fellows, I am sure they could come up with an estimate,  based 
> on a
> certain percentage of the magazines changing to first class mail.  Then it 
> will
> be your (the BOD) job to sell that to the membership.- Seth  Emerson
>
>
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