Well I am still 3 progs adrift, or at least I would be if I ahdnt picked them up from the Newsagents. I've asked for my Sub to be pushed on 2 weeks instead, in the hope that might fix the problem next year... however no response yet to my suggestion - any luck yourself Dossa?
Hmm. Kinda. Received 2021 and 2022, but these were replacements sent by customer services. So, still haven’t had a sniff of three progs in three successive weeks. Clearly not a postal problem, but some kind of picking error, I suppose?
That would be my guess - I have pointed the Customer Service people to this thread, so hopefully they will get back to me soon with the answer!
Be thankful you don't live in the U.S. Last one I received was #2166.
Be thankful you don't live in the U.S. Last one I received was #2166.
Good news, Dossa - I have not had anything :(
I'd like to think I've got sorted along with yourself, but I havent heard frm them for a week now - Tharg, if you are looking here, take pity on a poor Earthlet! I'm already £6.20 down on buying two progs, let alone this weeks!
I see there is a option for a two year subscription. My subscription is up soon so I will see if I have issues.
Be thankful you don't live in the U.S. Last one I received was #2166.
I'm in Australia and was getting my progs from my LCS - last one here was also #2166.
That said, the idea of having five months or so of progs and megazines arriving all at once wasn't particularly appealing from a financial standpoint, but it seems they'll be spaced out to slowly get caught up.There was an article about this earlier in the week (https://2000ad.com/news/2000-ad-shipments-to-us-clear-backlog-caused-by-covid-19/) if that helps
(I do appreciate the joy of sitting somewhere relaxing with a physical prog in hand, but that was in the before-time.)
I’m trying to figure out a way forward. As much as I love my complete collection of 2000 AD and the Meg, it’s not viable to continue with. It already takes up the entire space under the spare room bed, and I know I won’t likely ever read them through again....
Plan a re-read.Which would be fine, but… With the 6yo, I currently have maybe two hours tops, per day, of my own time. And along with several thousand 2000 AD comics sitting there, I have a pile of unread books, loads of Marvel Panini reprints in a cupboard, half-finished Pi projects, etc. :/
Diamond have invoiced both the 2000AD Summer SciFi Special 2020 & Meg 418 to my LCS here in South Australia for next week's shipment.
Yeah, mine seems to be creeping later and later in the week as well.
No Prog but also no Beano. Very rare for the latter to be this late.
EDIT: And of course mini-IP’s Beano arrived just now…
No prog, but the Meg turned up.
Same here, but I have the Futurequake Relief package to keep me going!No prog, but the Meg turned up.
Wednesday. I arise, blearey eyed and sleep-starved, dragging foosteps and clumsy fingertips at my morning routine. But then from outside - what is this? A cheerful whistling, the crunch of footfall on gravel as the postman approaches. The letterbox rattles as a mornings treasures drop to the mat below. My heart sings, my mornings toil is forgotten as I scramble to retrieve them.
... but no. As postman departs and I stand alone in the hallway like a forgotten statue, clutching a bank statment and a Grazebox with empty eyes. Upstairs the cat meows excitedly as he savages a mouse of cloth, it's innards shredded like my hopes of reading the next installment of Hookjaw. All is darkness.
2208 arrived for me today.
No Prog. No Meg. :'(
TBH post around here has been bizarre of late. Tuesday it turned up around 7pm. No idea what was happening there.That's some serious commitment by your postie.
No Prog. No Meg. :'(
Crikey - hope the droids are 'not' getting angry calls from Squaxx -- that doesn't feel right at all.
Thanks for the note Molch, and here's hoping for today!
Arrived here also! Happy to wait a few days to spread the comics out, especially when I've had the Meg and FQ earlier this week... and took the plunge on Spacewarp which should turn up tomorrow...
Finally got last week’s Prog today, but still no Meg or this week’s Prog
Incidentally, the advice from Tharg's minions is now to report it if you have not received prog 2208 and they will resend it.
https://twitter.com/2000AD/status/1330826422416519168
Still no 2208 here. I'll report it tomorrow.
What’s their phone number please?Think it’s 01865 797 022
I'm guessing no physical subscribers have had 2209 yet?
2208 has arrived! 13 days later than the old days, and 9 days later than they’ve recently been arriving. Be nice to see 2209 (and indeed the Xmas prog) before the year’s out.
And 2009 has just landed to boot in Sheffield.
I was gonna say is sheffield part of the gateaway to the bermuda triangle
And 2009 has just landed in Sheffield, to boot.
I was gonna say is sheffield part of the gateaway to the bermuda triangle
No Sheffield is (kinda) gateway to the Rhubarb Triangle... which from the south is true...
Also victim to my appalling grammar.
Got last weeks today but not todays :(
2209 *and* 2210 both turned up together this morning.
Can any of our readers beat that?
It's a Misty Special but no 2210 in these here parts! If it doesnt turn up tomorrow, it's a quick run over the road from work to get it before it goes off sale.....
2209 & 2210 for me! Woo and indeed hoo.
Watch out Thrill-buffers!
If my postal 2209 turn up, you'll be the first to know Dr X
They appear to be slowly catching up. Delays for me have been 2 weeks, 10 days, 1 week, for the last 3 Progs. Hopefully the end of year Progs will arrive by Xmas and things will settle down in the new year.
And after I had had a gentle word with my postie a couple of weeks ago, he didn’t bend it in half. Result.Bet he wiped his dick on it.
Anyone still waiting for 2211? Don’t want to hassle the droids, but at some point I have to assume it lost.
For people missing 2209, there are quiet a few on eBay at the moment:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=2000ad+2209&_sacat=0
missing 2211 and 2212 and the meg
plus side the two nemesis books seem to be on their way to me
Anyone still waiting for 2211? Don’t want to hassle the droids, but at some point I have to assume it lost.
I am, and 2212, and the Megazine.
What is the right thing to do here? I don't want to impose on Rebellion for something that might come in the post, but I am also down three progs, a Meg and counting.
What is the right thing to do here? I don't want to impose on Rebellion for something that might come in the post, but I am also down three progs, a Meg and counting.
so this year's quarantine 3.0 will definitely have a thrill drought. disappointed. rigelian blasts all round.
... but we haven't had The Phoenix for weeks and the boys are getting a bit impatient about that; just one of those things and not exactly the end of the world (yet).
My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.
My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.Came today
My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.
My Progs seem to no longer come at all.
My annual subs renewal payment went through today - starting to wonder where my Progs are though - nothing has arrived here in Norway since the bumper Christmas issue. Not even sure what I can do about it at this point...
My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.
My Progs seem to no longer come at all.
My annual subs renewal payment went through today - starting to wonder where my Progs are though - nothing has arrived here in Norway since the bumper Christmas issue. Not even sure what I can do about it at this point...
The latest Meg hasn’t shown up yet. I contacted Rebellion on Monday and they have promised to send another, which is pretty good customer service as far as I am concerned.
My Progs seem to no longer come on Saturdays but mid week.
My Progs seem to no longer come at all.
My annual subs renewal payment went through today - starting to wonder where my Progs are though - nothing has arrived here in Norway since the bumper Christmas issue. Not even sure what I can do about it at this point...
The latest Meg hasn’t shown up yet. I contacted Rebellion on Monday and they have promised to send another, which is pretty good customer service as far as I am concerned.
It's not the customer service element I'm worried about, more the systemic problems there seems to be in getting large-envelope-printed-stuff through the post from the UK to Norway lately... The Phoenix now seems to be getting through but I'm missing so many Progs and I don't know whether to assume they're lost or just held up somewhere, and that's not something customer service can assist with. I don't want to hassle them for replacements when they might just turn up so I've held off up to know - if there's no sign of Prog life in a couple of weeks I'll see if anything can be done I guess.
In my case, I discovered that the system had decided not to reward me with weekly thrill-power anymore and had cancelled my subscription for me on New Year's Day!!
Ok mate, hope you receive/recover your missing Issues and good luck!!In my case, I discovered that the system had decided not to reward me with weekly thrill-power anymore and had cancelled my subscription for me on New Year's Day!!
I'll check my subs status but I'm fairly sure this isn't the problem - my annual sub didn't renew until early February (and I got the automatic email letting me know that payment had gone through okay). I think it's just Brexit-related postal meltdown or something. I'll give it another couple of weeks and then contact subs about whatever issues haven't made it through (the last four, pretty much).
2214 and 2215 showed up today - glad I held off hassling subs peeps about it; just a bit of patience required these days. Hopefully the other issues will dribble in in due course. I'm just glad I don't have a UK-sourced mail-based lobster subscription.
Could this be while newsagents make returns? Actually what 'does' happen to returns?I’ve no idea these days. In olden times, it depended on the publisher. If they’d pay to have things sent back, everything would be returned. If not, stores would tear off the covers from unsold issues and bin the rest.
the systemic problems there seems to be in getting large-envelope-printed-stuff through the post from the UK to NorwayUK to UK is also still very bad. It seems to specifically be a problem with ‘large letter’ post, for whatever reason. Parcels are rattling through the system OK as are normal letters. But mags are still showing up pretty randomly here. (Although they do at least always show up—so far.)
My prog is here already!!!
Bank Holidays do knock things out in that given week but I'd suggest normally that should be straight by now (having no idea about what's going on in the back ground).
Number of folks posting in the review threads suggest there isn't a wide spread problem? Are you just missing this weeks or is it also previous ones still outstanding?
I am missing the most recent prog, but it always comes sooner or later
Mine’s been mostly fine, but some other stuff has been random. One of mini-IP’s Phoenix issues rocked up eight or nine days late. I suspect the entire postal service is still having problems.
I know Covid is hitting a lot of services hard and our post here is really messed up, but it is filtering through Porgs aside.
New year prog still missing in Perth. It was poor last autumn then sorted itself out later in the year.
New year prog still missing in Perth. It was poor last autumn then sorted itself out later in the year.
I got a Instagram from my brother in Perth yesterday, he'd just received my Xmas card sent at the start of December, it was their 1st mail since mid December! oh that's Perth Scotland, an hour up the road, not OZ.
Mail has been fine in the East Lothian Wastelands...
Does anyone know when the Megazine comes out?
I ask as I’ve just been down to WHSmith and they seem to have the next issue, but I’ve not received my subscription copy yet and there is no thread for it in the review section yet.