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I. DELAYS: I expect the first thing I had better mention this month is the delay most of you experienced in getting your orders filled. As many of you know both Joyce and I were away, she for two weeks and I for about 10 days. I could not begin to do all her work as well as my own while she was gone so I merely took care of the emer- gencies, forwarded Contact mail and tried to get my own work done. As a result when she returned she had about two weeks accumulation of shipments to record and to make. Naturally while she was catch- ing up on these the daily mail kept on coming in. So that is why so many of you deluged us with what we have come to call, "Where the hell is it", mail. Most of you are too ladylike to use such language, but once in awhile one comes through in about that vein. Well, anyway we are sorry, but, we couldnt keep our noses to the grindstone all the time especially with the Resort Gathering to go to. This backlog has, of course, slowed up the Nov. 15 Mirror and prevented catching up on this TVia, though it won't be as late get- ting to you as was #17. So bear with us, we work hard and do the best that we can, but there is an awful lot more to this than meets the eye.

II. IN ANTICIPATION:

As you know postal rates are due to go up the first of the year. For us they have been climbing steadily. Re- member when the magazine used to go out for 16¢? I do. Now it is 28. With the new rates at the same weight it would be 35¢ which is just too much. So early next year we will switch over to printing on a larger press which will require the page size to be altered. Since it will be somewhat smaller we will increase the number of pages to 92 or 96 depending on what weight will stay inside of 5 oz. Our method of operation is to get material typed in advance as it comes in and then to "assemble" the greater part of the magazine from this pretyped material. As a result there is quite a bit of material on hand already typed in the larger page size and also on 2 or 3 different machines. This will have to be used up in Nos. 18, 19, and 20 before we can change over. For this reason the var- iety of material in these 3 issues may not be distributed the way we normally would, but it is the best that we can do at the moment.

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