[quote=&quot;ol950&quot;:28o6f1wt]No magazine in Wisconsin yet!!  looking forward to the August/ Sept issue
because July is over already!!!! Have you thought of backing the issue up a month so it is mailed on the 15th before the month its dated for?[/quote:28o6f1wt]

We agree, this later mailing date just isn't cutting it. We have been working with Driveline Publishing, and we are going to start sending them out earlier. By the January, we plan on the issue being mailed by the 1st of the month instead of the 15th. I don't know if we want to go back any further, because then we would be shipped the same time as Oliver Heritage, and part of the reason Sherry picked the mailing date she has was so that there was some time between her magazine and the HPOCA magazine.

On a related topic. We had heard that if you had more than 5 members in your zip code you will get your magazine quicker, and here's the logic. When the printer pre-sorts the magazines, if there are 5 or less for a zip code, they get bundled together with other zip codes from that area (The USPS tells them how to sort them).  If you have 6 or more, your zip code gets its own bag and they don't have to get re-sorted somewhere down the line before they get to you. 

We have seen this work. Before, there were 2 of us in my zip code that got the HPOCA magazine, and it always took 2 weeks from the day it was mailed to reach us. Well, since we became editors, several of our friends and family have joined to get the magazine. This issue only took 1 week to get to us instead of the usual 2 weeks, so it does seem to work. I know there are those of you that don't want to help the HPOCA out any further, and that's your choice, but for the rest of us, get your neighbors to sign up, you'll get your magazine sooner!!!