Author Topic: The newest Shootist (Read 7941 times)

Major 2 · « **on:** June 11, 2011, 02:35:46 PM »

Thanks again to Irish Dave the newest Shootist is in the Florida Territories.

It was a great reminder of the Convention's goings on.
Even the Rogue's Gallery on the Cover was nicely carried off ...kudo's to the Graphic artist & Joan Ersland.

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #1 on:** June 11, 2011, 04:03:16 PM »

Well, as usual, The pony express takes longer to get mail out here to Texas.

Cutter Carl · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2011, 04:12:56 PM »

Mine came yesterday in Florida. Have not had a chance to read it yet.

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RickB · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2011, 04:05:07 AM »

Got mine last wednesday here in Iowa.

Sod Buster · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2011, 07:26:00 AM »

Still waiting....

Cash Creek · « **Reply #5 on:** June 12, 2011, 11:47:19 AM »

Got home from the banquet full from the bar-b-que, and with a nice door prize, and there it was desert my copy of the Shootist..
What more could you want..CC

RickB · « **Reply #6 on:** June 13, 2011, 11:19:53 AM »

Quote from: Cash Creek on June 12, 2011, 11:47:19 AM

Got home from the banquet full from the bar-b-que, and with a nice door prize, and there it was desert my copy of the Shootist..
What more could you want..CC

To have it read to me by Taylor Swift.

Steel Horse Bailey · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2011, 12:46:31 AM »

Quote from: RickB on June 13, 2011, 11:19:53 AM

To have it read to me by Taylor Swift.

Cash Creek · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2011, 03:15:48 PM »

Rick and Steel Horse, if she did read it to you guys you would have a heart attack, way toooooooo old

to even think like that...LOL

Maybe Granny from the Beverly Hillbilly she be about you guys speed...

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2011, 03:27:49 PM »

I will be available to sign my picture from the Convention banquet being presented with the 51 Navy and accessories.

Steel Horse Bailey · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2011, 05:53:55 PM »

Quote from: Texas Lawdog on June 30, 2011, 03:27:49 PM

I will be available to sign my picture from the Convention banquet being presented with the 51 Navy and accessories.

Promise?

Cash, unfortunately you may be right ... but we still can dream, right?

RickB · « **Reply #11 on:** July 01, 2011, 11:25:15 AM »

Quote from: Cash Creek on June 30, 2011, 03:15:48 PM

Rick and Steel Horse, if she did read it to you guys you would have a heart attack, way toooooooo old to even think like that...LOL Maybe Granny from the Beverly Hillbilly she be about you guys speed...

Naw, More like your speed there brother. I can handle my women, but can my women handle me? LOL

If she gave me a heart attack I'd think it was a good way to go.

Steel Horse Bailey · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2011, 01:01:13 PM »

Yeppir!

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2011, 03:38:17 PM »

SHB would have a smile on his face that even the undertaker could not remove.

Irish Dave · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2011, 04:14:43 PM »

Lawdog:

Check your messages (PMs), pard. I sent you one earlier this week.
Thanks.

RustySpringfield · « **Reply #15 on:** July 06, 2011, 08:24:55 AM »

I just received my slip-cover only in a USPS "too bad, so sad, we don't care" envelope. This is the fourth time in two years! I swear that someone in one of the handling facilities is stealing the journal and throwing the slip-cover in this envelope.

Anyone else having this problem?

Irish Dave · « **Reply #16 on:** July 06, 2011, 10:20:23 AM »

Rusty. Sent you an e-mail.

Steel Horse Bailey · « **Reply #17 on:** July 06, 2011, 10:31:28 AM »

Quote from: RustySpringfield on July 06, 2011, 08:24:55 AM

I just received my slip-cover only in a USPS "too bad, so sad, we don't care" envelope. This is the fourth time in two years! I swear that someone in one of the handling facilities is stealing the journal and throwing the slip-cover in this envelope.

Anyone else having this problem?

Howdy, Rusty!

So very sorry for the trouble you've had. Let me say that I USED to be a Mailman - delivering those magazines like you've had issues with. Do the magazines get read by "sorters" and such? Possibly, but since the Shootist and MANY others are mailed in either a poly bag or with a hard, outside paper "protective" cover, it doesn't happen much. To be honest, few of the mail handlers or delivery people have the TIME to look at these things. Due to Money issues, the USPS is on a VERY tight schedule and they are "slavedrivers" when it comes to wasting time. (Yes, we've ALL heard horror stories about "government workers " and the "work ethic" of some of them, but those stories are actually a very small fraction of a percentage point.) Most of us were too worried about losing our JOB in this day and age to mess with folk's mail! Reading a magazine from a customer, believe it or not, falls under the same rules and punishments as stealing the mail. It doesn't happen very often. Also, realistically, what do you think is going to get looked at more often; the latest Shootist with pictures fo a bunch of old folks playing "Cowboy" or the latest Victoria's Secret that comes out every two weeks or so?

The REAL culprit is technology, probably. The sorting of 95% of the mail nowdays is done by VERY fast moving machines that can sort ten or 12 dozens of magazines per minute that today's efficiency demands. The letter-sorting is done by machines that sort about 10-15 letters each second, and while the bigger magazines aren't THAT fast, they are still 10 (or more) times faster than a human.

Forgive me for putting up such a spirited defense, but MOST of us Postal Workers (gruntled) were VERY proud of what we did. I loved the delivery part myself (relaxing on a NICE day - not so much at 33 degrees F and raining or icy) and interacting with my customers, I just hated the leadership and the Congress which (like everything ELSE) seemed to hobble us, while keeping their OWN jobs secure. But that's another story ...

Hope this helps. I'm SURE that the "powers-that-be" can replace your magazine. I'd sure hate to write a 4th piece for the magazine and you NOT be able to read it!

Jeff "Steel Horse Bailey": proud NCOWS member and (former) Gruntled {if DISgruntled is an un-happy person, a gruntled one must be the opposite} Postal Worker.

I hope your troubles get fixed, but I'm afraid it'll happen again, sometime.

Cash Creek · « **Reply #18 on:** July 11, 2011, 09:56:38 PM »

July 11, and NO shootist for Cash Creek in Southern Indiana..

Cliff Fendley · « **Reply #19 on:** July 13, 2011, 03:32:17 PM »

Which issue should we be getting this time? I havent gotten one in a long time and I know there was one I didn't get back in the spring.

I need to get them together to see which ones I have.

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