Autosport magazine delivery
Discussion
A couple of years ago it always arrived on a Wednesday. Now it sometimes arrives on a Thursday and a couple of times it hasn't arrived at all.
I've been a subscriber for years and frankly I'm fed up enough to simply cancel the subscription. I contacted them numerous times too and nothing has ever changed.
For over £100 a year, I'd expect a bit better to be honest.
I've been a subscriber for years and frankly I'm fed up enough to simply cancel the subscription. I contacted them numerous times too and nothing has ever changed.
For over £100 a year, I'd expect a bit better to be honest.
Has anyone tried the 'digital' subscription for the magazine ?
At £3.20 / week, i.e. the same as the regular magazine in the shops and more than the 'paper' subscription price (in effect they're saying the paper for the normal magazine version is free, hence I'm not expecting any future increases in price due to 'printing costs' - yeah right !!), my thinking is 'get stuffed' but wasn't sure if there were any extras you got.
Allyc85 said:
Im getting the same with Motorsport news at the moment, its been turning up on Fridays instead of Wednesdays!
Likewise. I've had a couple of emails blaming Royal Mail but that's Just an excuse as none of my other subs, post etc has been delayed.If it doesn't get any better when the circuit racing season kicks off they'll be losing me as a subscriber. Typical shoddy Haymarket service.
Nick M said:
Has anyone tried the 'digital' subscription for the magazine ?
At £3.20 / week, i.e. the same as the regular magazine in the shops and more than the 'paper' subscription price (in effect they're saying the paper for the normal magazine version is free, hence I'm not expecting any future increases in price due to 'printing costs' - yeah right !!), my thinking is 'get stuffed' but wasn't sure if there were any extras you got.
At £3.20 / week, i.e. the same as the regular magazine in the shops and more than the 'paper' subscription price (in effect they're saying the paper for the normal magazine version is free, hence I'm not expecting any future increases in price due to 'printing costs' - yeah right !!), my thinking is 'get stuffed' but wasn't sure if there were any extras you got.
I have the digital subscription (digital only, so without paper copy: £66/year according to my subscription information) - get full access to the website and related data + download a pdf of the magazine (and it is a simple copy of the whole magazine... including adverts etc page by page).Works for me as I'm out of the country so the paper copies were piling up for weeks before I got to read them and can now scan through the pdf instead, usually from first thing Thursday.
I have had problems with A/S delivery for several months. I am convinced that it's the Post Office's fault rather than the distributers - The PO seem to treat magazines as very second class mail. I have e-mailed A/S about it & we finally agreed that they would send my weekly A/S in a plain envelope rather than see through plastic wrapper. Guess what, it now arrives on time!!!
Monday lunchtime and still no "this week's" Autosport.
Spoke to subscriptions and they gave me the same answer - ie with Xmas and the snow Royal Mail prioritised letters/parcels and treated all magazine deliveries as 2nd class - seems pretty scandalous to me as the subscriber is effectively paying for 1st class delivery...
Anyway they are going to try the plain brown envelope trick (memo, must explain to wife)- I'll let you know how I get on.
Spoke to subscriptions and they gave me the same answer - ie with Xmas and the snow Royal Mail prioritised letters/parcels and treated all magazine deliveries as 2nd class - seems pretty scandalous to me as the subscriber is effectively paying for 1st class delivery...
Anyway they are going to try the plain brown envelope trick (memo, must explain to wife)- I'll let you know how I get on.
llewop said:
I have the digital subscription (digital only, so without paper copy: £66/year according to my subscription information) - get full access to the website and related data + download a pdf of the magazine (and it is a simple copy of the whole magazine... including adverts etc page by page).Might consider that when I get round to an iPad.
Nick M said:
Thanks for that. Price is rather less than they're suggesting on their website too (they're saying it's an introductory offer of £2 / week, normally £3.20, but at £66 per annum that starts to make a bit more sense.
Might consider that when I get round to an iPad.
I should have added that my renewal is due in April apparently, so could be prices have changed since I set it up + it is quite tricky to see the subscription rates on the website once you have one! Might consider that when I get round to an iPad.
just rechecked, since it occurred to me that it was a 2 step thing: it is: £66 for Autosport digital + Autosport.com @ £46
or something like that
Edited by llewop on Monday 31st January 20:14
Just a quick update - the issue from 2 weeks ago never turned up - so that's 2 lost in the last 6 weeks. I spoke to Autosport who promised to send out last week's edition in a plain Jiffy bag - it duly arrived 2 days late in the usual transparent packaging.
This morning (Thursday) I have received this week's issue on time in a Jiffy bag - probably the first time that I've had a chance to read Autosport on a Thursday in 3 months or so. So let's see whether this will be a permanent fix - if so it would seem that the Post Office are guilty of automatically treating magazine deliveries as 2nd class post (or taking them home to read?)...
This morning (Thursday) I have received this week's issue on time in a Jiffy bag - probably the first time that I've had a chance to read Autosport on a Thursday in 3 months or so. So let's see whether this will be a permanent fix - if so it would seem that the Post Office are guilty of automatically treating magazine deliveries as 2nd class post (or taking them home to read?)...
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