Hmmm. Saturday evening and no sign of this week's "jumping on" prog, 2150. Is it just us with a posties holiday or, in the absence of a review thread, is this more widespread? Been a while since this problem hit.
No recieved it in Essex bit had 2000ad collection today by postie
No prog today
the prog has got away
the squaxx he stands forlorn, the thrills he seeks unborn
no prog today
the weekend sees no-show
of Tharg's works all aglow
Quote from: Leigh S on 21 September, 2019, 07:37:29 PM
No prog today
the prog has got away
the squaxx he stands forlorn, the thrills he seeks unborn
no prog today
the weekend sees no-show
of Tharg's works all aglow
This is so good and alas so true!
No show on Saturday for the 4th week running. It is more surprising when it does turns up on a Saturday rather than on Monday or Tuesday which now days seen the norm
Nothing for me either - it's about 50/50 these days between Saturday and Monday
Quote from: rogue69 on 21 September, 2019, 09:12:54 PM
No show on Saturday for the 4th week running. It is more surprising when it does turns up on a Saturday rather than on Monday or Tuesday which now days seen the norm
In orbit every Monday! (as used to be)
No prog in Cornwall either. I suspect thrill suckers in operation at the Devon border again.
Boo-drokking-hoo.
It's been over a year since my subscriber prog arrived on a Saturday.
Welcome to Wednesday, punks.
You guys have to wait like the rest of our mortal folk, waiting for the digital prog to be launch a second after midnight
Quote from: broodblik on 22 September, 2019, 11:02:52 AM
You guys have to wait like the rest of our mortal folk, waiting for the digital prog to be launch a second after midnight
A second? A
second? Service is a bit slow!
Nothing in North Warwickshire 😔
Normally do get it on Saturday, but I'm progless too!
Maybe the levels of thrill-power found in Guatemala were just too high and the prog is being made safe before despatch...
Quote from: sheridan on 22 September, 2019, 11:19:29 AM
Quote from: broodblik on 22 September, 2019, 11:02:52 AM
You guys have to wait like the rest of our mortal folk, waiting for the digital prog to be launch a second after midnight
A second? A second? Service is a bit slow!
Aye, I'd be complaining about that. Should be bang on the moment the Greenwich atomic clock hits midnight.
As an aside, glad (okay maybe that is too strong a word) that it is not just these parts of the Taff Wasteland that are suffering from neglect. Bring back Denise.
Prog delivered today
I'm still Prog shy.
The prog rarely lands on a Saturday with me now (maybe 1 in 5). This week I didn't get it on the Monday either, which is unusual.
Mine has just arrived today
... and another Toothless weekend <sigh>!
:'(
I get the digi-prog with the app on my tablet. The thing is, I have no idea when it arrives or how to make it arrive. I open the app on the right day and there's nothing there, and sometimes, by jumping around the site and logging out and back in a few times it might appear.
Is it me or does this happen to everyone with the app?
I also have my sub digitally. Just be patient it takes awhile to reflect the availability of new publications. Open the app and wait until you see in the main page that the 2000ad section displays with a new icon. It takes awhile to sync between the app and the server.
Cheers broodblik. Couldn't figure our if it was me doing something wrong or not. One more thing : which day does it appear digitally on the app? I never really have a set routine.
The digital prog is available same time as the street date and that is Wednesdays. If you stay in the UK I think it is already available just after midnight, early Wednesday morning. I am GMT+2 so I download it around 4 in the morning.
Thanks again. I'm in Ireland - not the UK part, but I would imagine it's delivered at the same time.
From the pages of progmuda triangle stranger than fiction: I have not even read are came close to see prog 2153 and I have seen a preview of prog 2154: http://www.comicon.com/2019/10/14/the-weekly-2000-ad-prog-2154-previewed-hopes-apocalypse-then/ (http://www.comicon.com/2019/10/14/the-weekly-2000-ad-prog-2154-previewed-hopes-apocalypse-then/)
This might be a one of those time a glitches :crazy: :o :-*
Has the Progmuda Triangle claimed the Megazine?? Is it in the shops?
Quote from: Leigh S on 16 October, 2019, 11:39:45 AM
Has the Progmuda Triangle claimed the Megazine?? Is it in the shops?
Thought it was strange that there was no review thread yet. Mine arrived on Saturday with the Prog and the 13th Floor Special. I'm in Dorset.
No Megazine in Huff-sur La Mer... :(
Quote from: iutley on 16 October, 2019, 11:55:20 AM
Thought it was strange that there was no review thread yet. Mine arrived on Saturday with the Prog and the 13th Floor Special. I'm in Dorset.
The Meg and the special arrived Saturday with me, the Prog Monday.
Couldn't they save a few quid by combining these deliveries?
Mine have been arriving like clockwork for over 6 months now on Saturday.
Mine used to. Mostly Monday here now, which is fine anyway.
Still no meg - I'm thinking that moving from a monthly sub to an annual for the gifts has drokked me over... all praise to Tharg! >:(
Any one else having continuing poor proggage? This is the second week in a row it hasnt turned up on Monday.... since I moved from monthly to annual sub I'm not sure if even half the progs have made it on Saturday and one of the Megs went totally AWOL....
It's a bit less regular these days, to be sure. Saturdays are rare now. Mondays are commonplace, but the odd Prog has slipped to Tuesday or beyond. Oh well.
Thursdays for me. For the last few months.
I am progless once more :(
Things got a bit flaky for a while but last few months its landed on a Saturday like clockwork again. As this week nothing by Monday so hopefully tomorrow.
Similarly, it seemed to be getting back to Saturdays for me. I'm now progless on a Tuesday and I realise how complacent I was. I forgot that what Tharg giveth, he can can also taketh.
Perhaps its that Yorkshire has been transformed in to one massive fishlake that's affecting delivery?
Progless Huff-sur-le-Mer, Eastern Cal-Hab btw.
No prog here - shakes fist in the general direction of (Disaster 1990 style underwater?) Oxford. Might just be that Birmingham has avoided apocalyptic weather, but that doesnt explain the general trend these last two or three months...
I'm currently awaiting an update from Mrs Bolt (who is at home now) as to the arrival of the prog. Currently I'm suffering from a runny nose and a sore throat - I am clearly in the early stages of severe thrill-deprivation.
Progless here as well. Entertainingly ironically, my two Hachette books arrived on time (for a given value of 'on time' – in the sense they rocked up four weeks after the last lot, but still five weeks later than the original schedule).
I'm in a Prog wasteland and taking it out on the children...
I just bought something from the webshop and there was a message saying that there'd be a bit of a delay because nothing would be sent out between Friday 15th and today due to them changing warehouses or something.
Quote from: M.I.K. on 19 November, 2019, 07:22:25 PM
I just bought something from the webshop and there was a message saying that there'd be a bit of a delay because nothing would be sent out between Friday 15th and today due to them changing warehouses or something.
I got the impression that the Prog shipped straight from the printers? Might be wrong there but that's the way I think it works, which would mean warehouse moves weren't the reason... but then it would also explain it?
Acording to Mrs Bolt, I have both prog and Meg waiting for me.
I'd like to thank TMO for personally transporting my copies to FQP tower as I don't think I'd be well enough to letter the finest small press titles without my regular fix...
Prog finally arrived, no Meg yet if that's coming this week.
Prog and Meg arrived yesterday. That's the latest it has been for a while.
I've had no Prog (in Norway) for ages, then today the latest three turn up at once... Weird.
Nothing yet for me. Progless. (West of Londonish.)
Quote from: CalHab on 21 November, 2019, 11:36:27 AM
Prog and Meg arrived yesterday. That's the latest it has been for a while.
Ditto.
double ditto!
Mine arrived today, with the issue that should have arrived today. And the Meg. And, seemingly, all last week's mail. So I'm not putting this one down to Rebellion. Local Royal Mail is clearly stacking mail for some reason.
Anyone else still without Meg? I cheekily changed to a combi sub half way through last year so it's poss it was set up incorrectly. I've emailed now to hopefully resolve.
Prog and Meg arrived on Wednesday last week, and this week's prog still hasn't arrived. That's the third week in a row where the usual Saturday prog hasn't arrived, and hasn't arrived until Tuesday at the earliest, and the number of Monday progs has been increasing recently too...
All good at Huff-Sur-Le Mer, Saturday prog, in TMO we trust! :thumbsup:
Quick email to HQ and a replacement Meg is on the way.
Postie come and gone and still no prog this week, which means it will be Thursday at the earliest that my sub prog arrives. That's a new record, and coming off the back of the Wednesday prog last week and the uptick in Monday/Tuesday progs it's getting a bit frustrating. No other regular mail is delayed so I can only assume there's a blip somewhere in the pipeline for the prog. Hopefully it gets resolved soon...
Quote from: The Amstor Computer on 27 November, 2019, 12:42:36 PM
Postie come and gone and still no prog this week, which means it will be Thursday at the earliest that my sub prog arrives. That's a new record, and coming off the back of the Wednesday prog last week and the uptick in Monday/Tuesday progs it's getting a bit frustrating. No other regular mail is delayed so I can only assume there's a blip somewhere in the pipeline for the prog. Hopefully it gets resolved soon...
Mine arrived Tuesday last week and then Wednesday this week.
Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 28 November, 2019, 05:25:59 PM
Mine arrived Tuesday last week and then Wednesday this week.
Mine arrived at last today. Will be interested to see if 2160 arrives at the usual time or not - if it's a third week in a row getting here at the same time (or later) than it's out in newsagents then I think I'll be making my first complaint in the 15 years I've been a sub. Fingers crossed it's just been a wobble these last couple of weeks though.
PROGLESS, ASSEMBLE!
Nothing yet again - since switching to Annual I think I may have had one Saturday prog, with them turning up as late as Wednesday.... no word from Tharg on this, as it seems it isn't just me....?
I think Royal Mail is being shit of late. Mini-G's clockwork Phoenix has now started arriving on Saturday or later, after a run of Fridays. 2000 AD is all over the place.
Hmm - actually, I do wonder if Royal Mail are having some serious problems that are not being reported/I haven't read about
Hard to say. Locally, we had nothing from 18–22 Nov, and then 11 items on the Saturday, which clearly isn't normal. That included two issues of 2000 AD, a week-late Meg, and stuff that had clearly been stacked across the week. Royal Mail said nothing had been reported, but they could if I wanted investigate directly with the depot. I figured what's the point?
Nothing received today
Same here in the Taff Wastes.
Increasingly moving to the point where a show before Wednesday is the more unusual occurrence.
... and this is without the proposed Christmas strike.
It seems to be a regular thing these days for my doormat to be progless on a Saturday morn.
ditto :(
No 2160 here yet, and the postie has been today. Looking like it could end up being another after-it's-in-the-shops prog...
Similarly, no prog here. Is this a post office problem or one at Tharg's end?
Not sure, TBH. My guess at the moment is that it's a combination of seasonal and election mail causing an issue, but that could be totally off-base. I've certainly never had this many late progs in a row, all while the rest of our usual mail is apparently arriving on time.
Got mine today. They're coming!
Yep nowt in Sheffield yet and the posties been. I do wonder if it will be like this until after X-Mas?
Nothing here either.
and again.... :'(
Still no prog up in my corner of Cal-Hab. I wonder if it'll get back to Saturday/Monday deliveries after Christmas, or is this the new normal?
I'm beginning to think this is a deliberate ploy by TMO to help strengthen us for the gap between progs over the festivities.
He's testing our resilience at extended Thrill-Power withdrawal...
Nort Berwick still progless, will see the cover in FP today at least... :(
Still waiting here in the homeland of the Greggs pasty... :(
Arrived here, so no Thursday progs as yet..... but a heck of Wednesday ones
Similarly, mine arrived yesterday.
ditto :o
Well excited tore open the compostable envelop containing the Prog - unexpectantly arrived on Saturday during this X-Mas period only to discover it was the subscriber Poster Prog... which looks very nice I have to say but isn't the Prog.
Received this weeks prog today which is a first for a few weeks now
This is either the third or fourth week in a row again. I think if it is a case of this is going to be the norm due to logistics with the printer then clarification would be helpful.
As it is I am now going with the expectation that it will turn up either tuesday or wednesday now and if it turns up earlier it is a bonus.
For the first time in several weeks, my prog arrived on Saturday, as is right and proper. I don't think the issues can have been related to the printing of the prog, simply because it's been arriving on the high street shelves on time (I assume?).
I suspect we have to point the finger at the postal service, which seems to have been struggling generally if the arrival of stuff I've ordered online over the last few weeks is anything to go by.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 08 December, 2019, 09:49:45 AM
For the first time in several weeks, my prog arrived on Saturday, as is right and proper. I don't think the issues can have been related to the printing of the prog, simply because it's been arriving on the high street shelves on time (I assume?).
Prog 2159 didn't turn up at my local Smiths and I ended up having to order one of the recent Guatemala issues from the 2000AD shop. Menzies usually gets the blame.
I keep thinking about going digital. It goes against my general principles, but I've boxes full of progs that never get taken out of the garage (yes, not good, I know) and lack of space is a problem. The fact that so many of my favourite artists (who would benefit from the larger format) are either retired or passed on is making me reluctant to keep paying for a paper copy.
Regards,
Robin
What Jim said. Royal Mail is garbage right now. Our local is randomly stacking. And it's not just the Prog. Mini-G's Phoenix, which used to arrive like clockwork every single Friday, now rocks up on Saturday or Monday.
As for digital vs paper, my Progs and Megs are all under the spare room bed. I think I run out of room in a year. Not sure what happens after that.
X-mas and election seem likely candidates. As Indigoprime said even The Phoenix which you used to be able to set your clock by (assuming your clock only needs to inform you it Friday) has been slipping the last few weeks.
As if to prove that particular point, mini-IP's Phoenix just arrived. So that's a late delivery (gone 2pm, when our mail is usually here around 10) two days after the comic is supposed to arrive. No 2000 AD as yet, obv.
no prog here - it might be exacerbated by Xmas, but it has been going on months now - no offical word from Tharg? A simple "not us Guvnor" would suffice.
No prog, but joy of joys my subs pin arrived!
And a 'luvverley' thing it is, too!
Thanks Tharg.
Prog and sub Poster Prog rocked up today here in not-at-all-sunny Hampshire.
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 10 December, 2019, 08:04:25 AM
No prog, but joy of joys my subs pin arrived!
And a 'luvverley' thing it is, too!
Thanks Tharg.
Yeah its really nice isn't it. Much chunkier than expected. The question remains do I replace the Concrete pin I currently have on my beanie (funnily enough I think bought off Bolt-01) with it???
Anyway Prog has landed in windsweep Sheffield.
Prog last night, too. Need to do a re-read on deadworld methinks. This was the first episode where I was genuinely lost as to some of the events.
Colin - glad to hear you still have the pin! My subs pin has joined my cork board with all my others on display.
I've no idea what's going on in Deadworld now. It seems packed full of ideas, but who was infiltrating/possessing what has somehow eluded me.
Hope was great. I regret not buying the trade when it was on sale now.
Nothing at HuffMasion, but I wasn't home last night and the trains are off, so it maybe some time before I find out if my prog 'n' pin's arrived... :o
My prog arrived on Monday, and the pin arrived yesterday :)
Prog arrived today, after I had read it in Smiths (totally fair!)
This has been on going since late August/Early September, so I don't buy the idea it is just Christmas or the Election messing us about - and Tharg still hasn't commented which I find a bit odd - didn't we all get a ridiculousoly over generous money off voucher when this happened just one week - this has been going on 12. Not that I am angling for any sort of voucher mind (didn't/haven't spent the last one), but I would prefer Tharg to tell us that he is not to blame as a starter for seeing if there is ever going to be a resolution or if this is the new norm
The discount was a one-off because the cock-up happened with their warehouse/distribution - most of the year, the prog goes out from the warehouses the same time as it always did, but the Royal Mail is just getting progressively shitter.
Prog and Pin turned up yesterday...In Tharg we trust!
Yeah, which is why I am presumming this is the Royal Mail, though it would be nice to have confirmation that Tharg is at least prodding the post Droids to see what is up, given it doesn't seem to be resolving on its own?
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 December, 2019, 07:09:28 PM
The discount was a one-off because the cock-up happened with their warehouse/distribution - most of the year, the prog goes out from the warehouses the same time as it always did, but the Royal Mail is just getting progressively shitter.
Mini-G currently in a strop and "sad" because her Phoenix didn't arrive today. I really hope this Royal Mail mess all goes away after the holidays.
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 December, 2019, 07:04:23 PM
Mini-G currently in a strop and "sad" because her Phoenix didn't arrive today. I really hope this Royal Mail mess all goes away after the holidays.
The boy child has come to expect it. I used its absense as an opportunity to explain why privitisation is a bad thing. If we've learnt anything recently we must take ever chance to make the next generation not a bunch of fuckwits like the current voting population.
It's a Christmas Miracle!
Christmas prog and Meg are here! Thank you Tharg!
No Prog here as yet – but then also no post at all. No Phoenix either, and no Beano this week in stores. Mini-G's going to be bouncing off the bloody walls.
Aha – Phoenix just landed, along with mini-G's OKIDO. No Prog/Meg. Ironically, this month's Hachette books arrived three days earlier than expected. I now look forward to getting no delivery at all in January, as is customary.
Received the Meg on Saturday but still no 2000ad Christmas special :(
I'm the opposite - Prog but no Meg
This will teach me to rejoice too soon - no Meg - how long do you leave it before calling a sub officially AWOL?
Leigh - I'd call today, once you get confirmation that it hasn't arrived today, that is.
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 December, 2019, 12:29:07 PM
Aha – Phoenix just landed...
Was that the Christmas issue? We're still waiting for ours (and the Christmas Prog) and I'm seriously hoping for some imminent postie action before we head off for a week of turkey-related shenanigans.
It was 415. Corpse Talk was Great Expectations.
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 December, 2019, 10:32:58 AM
It was 415. Corpse Talk was Great Expectations.
Ah, we got that one earlier this week - probably won't get a second issue before we head off. As long as the Chrimbo Prog arrives today or tomorrow I don't mind, though!
In theory, 416 is due tomorrow. I'll be amazed if it arrives then, but I'm hoping for Sat or Mon.
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 December, 2019, 11:50:48 AM
In theory, 416 is due tomorrow. I'll be amazed if it arrives then, but I'm hoping for Sat or Mon.
Well I'd ordered a bunch of Bunny vs. Monkey and Corpse Talk books as Christmas presents so I guess we'll cope. Also renewed the boys' annual subscription and also their Aquila sub while I was at it (nothing but lint in my pockets now).
I just went for a Beano sub, on the basis we were buying it every week anyway. Sterling service from DCT. They're currently running a gun as a gift, and we're not into that. One DM and one email later and I have a selection of alternatives. They dispatched a Gnasher backpack before I'd even subscribed. And I mentioned the gift thing on subscribing and they said "Oh, that's not good that you didn't like the gift" and added a small discount. I'm like: ... OK.
As for BvM, we ordered the entire set for Christmas. I suspect that will be greeted with joy, and then: "I really wanted the Looshkin books as well". (Mini-IP is a bit young for Corpse Talk, but has really been enjoying having me read them to her in recent issues.)
Meg turned up today, but by Grud how long is this postal nonsense going to continue?
I'll let someone else grab the Prog thread, seeing as I've not read any of mine yet. But I thought I'd note that I got a Saturday Prog for the first time in ages. 2163 landed today. Ironically, The Phoenix was a day late!
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 04 January, 2020, 11:21:21 AM
I'll let someone else grab the Prog thread, seeing as I've not read any of mine yet. But I thought I'd note that I got a Saturday Prog for the first time in ages. 2163 landed today. Ironically, The Phoenix was a day late!
Yeah apparently the Phoenix is changing its printer or distributor or some such. That makes me nervous as its always been so reliable.
Didn't receive 2163 this week, hopefully get it early next week, but had to get replacement Xmas prog and issues 59 and 60 of the Hatchett collection, did notice a different postman today hmmm we shall see
Got mine too (Great Dredd opener!) though I would sound a note of caution with regards drawing any conclusions - it is my (possibly faulty) memory that the first prog of the year has turned up a week or more early in previous years?
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 04 January, 2020, 11:21:21 AM
I'll let someone else grab the Prog thread, seeing as I've not read any of mine yet. But I thought I'd note that I got a Saturday Prog for the first time in ages. 2163 landed today. Ironically, The Phoenix was a day late!
Is anyone else still waiting for 2163 ?
nope, got mine.
Praise Tharg, both prog and Meg... hoping for a regular 2020! (Dredd brilliant again!)
Nowt again this week, will have to call them on Monday, wondering if they messed up my renewal as since the annual sub payment was taken that's the last three issues not delivered
2000 AD, Meg and mini-G's first Beano sub today. Phoenix yesterday. Local post working.
moly: if you've not received three in a row, that does suggest a call or email to customer services would be a very good idea.
Phoenix missed Friday (arrived Saturday) and no Prog. The early optimism of the New Year is slipping already!
On the other hand, I was back to a Saturday prog last week (though the Meg arrived yesterday), which is the first time in months.
Quote from: CalHab on 14 January, 2020, 12:06:42 PM
On the other hand, I was back to a Saturday prog last week (though the Meg arrived yesterday), which is the first time in months.
Same, same.
Spoken to customer service today and looks like there was an issue with annual sub renewal where the information wasn't updated with dispatch, all sorted hopefully
Prof delivered today so hopefully back on track
Same here - 100% 2020 so far!