Threads Magazine turned up FINALLY!!!

USA-UK slow post use slugs or snails for delivery I wonder ?!?!

to see the article on fitting jeans - it may help me make sense of my trouser fittings problems combined with my new Taunton press clothes fitting book. If not, I'll be talking to you all in a separate post about my bl**dy trousers! Godets in skirts also caught my eye when I flicked through - I think they may be happening in the near future as well! I think they will suit me and my skirt style very well. Now the only problem is that my first issue of Threads should have been Issue 110, rather than 111, so its gone AWOL in the post. I've emailed Taunton, and am waiting to see what they say.

Hallo Sarah, Glad for you, you've got your Threads now! I was wondering, what difference there was between Burda and Threads. There is American Book Shop

in Amsterdam/NL. I've asked there for a subscription of Threads, but they told me, it's not possible A week after that, I' ve seen an issue by suprise. And now: thank you very much, they have one! You're reading about jeans fitting, S.Betzina and godets in skirts. It means, that is the Threads I was asking for. Funny, the American Book Shop in Amsterdam has so much stuff, they even don't know about their magazines. Here the price for an issue is about 8.50 euro. Burda about 5 euro. I wish you much fun with your Threads. Suzan/NL

Mine only arrived a couple of days ago. Every time, I think it's gone missing and I check the issue number, but no - it's the right issue.

We auslanders just have to be patient...

Enjoy your issue.

:) Trish

I have family in the states. We often ship things back and forth. I've noticed since 9/11 the mail is taking significantly longer. After the anthrax scare, a box that was sent to me from the US took almost 10 weeks! Regarding the post in England. My sister-in-law who lives in Nottingham sent a Christmas card to me in Norway, it arrived 2 days later. The same day that she posted the card to me she posted a card to family in Nottingham, it arrived 5 days later. Figure that one out!

"Sarah Dale" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@molnir.demon.co.uk...

I just got 111 on Jan 13, the "publishing date", so it's not late but I notice our friends in the USA get theirs the week before the publishing date. I finally subscribed last year. I got the "next issue", and then in a separate envelope a week later, I got my "first issue". So I did get what I was supposed to, but they came in reverse order. If you email them, they will send you your starting issue, their customer service is very good. The postal service, on the other hand, leaves one waiting.

Jr

Samples I asked for from BL Joshi in London arrived the following afternoon - 50 miles, door to door, as the crow flies... a couple of hours by car.

A letter from the university about registering for exams once took six months - 30 miles door to do, half an hour by car on a good day!

Pattern FedExed from Canada took 36 hours...*

Patterns posted from Havant took 4 days!

*Cost an arm, a leg, and 3 small children!

But here in the US we might see the magazine on the newsstand for a week before it arrives in the mail, too. The Postal Service is a curious machine, no matter where you live, it seems. Mysteriouser, and mysteriouser.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Just to let you all know that Taunton will be putting a new copy of Issue

110 in the post to me, so that is good news, and I will eventaually get it!

Sarah

It's not all the post office... most magazine publishers ship in batches, usually depending on zip code or last name or some other such method of dividing up the subscriber base. And they usually rotate through the batches, so if you're in mailing group 1 this time, you might be in mailing group 6 the next.

Kay