Recent USPS Delivery Delays
Added 2025-01-30 01:56:34 +0000 UTCHey there, Force fans! Just wanted to drop you all a quick note to address some recent delivery delays with the US Postal Service.
We're nearing the end of January, and some of our US subscribers are still waiting for their copies of Issue #75 to arrive. This is largely because the USPS has been incredibly backlogged in some areas of the country. Around where the NF home office is here in Kentucky, we had some extreme winter weather and severely low temperatures that kept schools closed for two solid weeks — the roads around town here in Lexington were terrible. Some of that snow and ice is still around, unmelted even now!
Major weather events that are big enough to close schools also inevitably affect the postal service, and all of this happening right in the aftermath of the holiday season didn't help matters in regard to the massive volume of mail the USPS is still trying to get caught up on. Here's one of our local news channels' articles on it if you'd like to read further:
All of this is to say, please continue to have patience! Yes, your issues were mailed. Most of them have been delivered by now. But if you live in the States and your copy hasn't arrived yet, it's almost surely because there's an overclogged, overworked and understaffed USPS link in the chain somewhere between our magazine printing company and your front door.
This kind of thing just happens sometimes! We've printed and shipped 75 different NF issues going back 12 years now, and while most have been delivered reliably, every once in a while there are obstacles along the way. It's not the norm, thankfully! It's a statistical outlier. So keep an eye on your mailbox and good old NF #75 will make it to you eventually!
(And winter weather delays won't be a problem anymore once we get out of winter! So that'll be nice!)
Thank you to you all who have been patient!
~ Lucas
