End of an era? SCD

[RedsFan1941]

Originally Posted by jerseygary

So much for nostalgia... I signed up for an SCD subscription on August 31 and here it is 2 weeks later and I have heard nor received anything from them.

most print publications are on life support. your experience is totally unacceptable.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

I was a subscriber from 1976 up until the late 1990's. At that point they were being sent 4th class media mail and I would often get two or three issues on the same day.

I went my post office to complain and was told but the local postmaster that they only sorted media mail when he could afford extra people to work through it. He told me that by law/rules he didn't have to deliver media mail by any certain date. By the time I received it everything I would call on was already sold.

During it's heyday I loved it and still have thick folders with articles on stuff I collected.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

It was the ads, with all the great cards and memorabilia for sale. If you were fast you could pick up some amazing things, but you definitely had to be fast. The minute the issue arrived you had to drop what you were doing and scour the pages.

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

I was a subscriber from 1976 up until the late 1990's. At that point they were being sent 4th class media mail and I would often get two or three issues on the same day.

I went my post office to complain and was told but the local postmaster that they only sorted media mail when he could afford extra people to work through it. He told me that by law/rules he didn't have to deliver media mail by any certain date. By the time I received it everything I would call on was already sold.

Hence the option to pay more for expedited delivery.