My subscription ended about a year ago and I didn't want to renew just yet due to relocating. I want to get it going again, but read somewhere that they don't send the mags in the cardboard boxes anymore. I searched but couldn't find it. Did they quit doing this, and why? I wasn't really worried about it before, but now being overseas, and seeing how most of the packages arrive here, I am. It won't be as easy, but I don't mind buying from the store if it means getting a nice copy. Thanks, DOOCE
I receive my RJ in a cardboard mailer sealed INSIDE a plastic cover. Can't get any better than that, in my opinion.
You mean you don't want it to look like this? HRP This is what mine looked like a couple of months ago,,,,Rodder's Journal made it good but it took me sending them the second E-mail,,,HRP
Everyone complains about the subscription services with RJ - and I agree. I subscribed one year - they were late, damaged, creased. etc. etc.... I just pick them up at the book store for the last couple years - works perfect - great shape, I get them when I want them - $2-3 and issue more.....no big deal.
Mine doesn't come in the box anymore either. It comes in a thin envelope like the picture hotrodprimer posted. Hasn't happened yet but I know it's just a matter of time 'till one of mine shows up looking like that.
After driving home last week and seeing the part time mail delivery woman wadding up something my neighbor recieved and beating it with her open palm forcing it in the box,,I know what happens now! HRP
This is what I'm afraid of, I don't think I'm going to do the subscription. No problem, how is it working for you?
Hello, We still send out all subscriber copies in the cardboard mailing envelopes. Each mag is also poly-bagged inside. This has completely decreased the number of complaints due to damaged copies. Unfortunately we do not have control over the magazine when it is in route to you, so sometimes copies do get mangled! If you ever receive a copy like the one pictured above just give us a call...we'll make it right! 800-750-9550 Enjoy...and don't hesitate to call.. Chasity TRJ Ps - TRJ #41 will be mailing out in about 2 weeks!
Still the best hot rod publication out there. I've literally got thousands of mags going back to the '50's. If I could only keep one set, it would be TRJ. My poor wife's gonna have a bon fire when I'm gone.
I've never had a problem and I've subscribed since the very beginning. Never had a single damaged issue or missed one. I see them on the news stand before I receive mine in the mail from time to time, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time worrying about that. It's always well worth the wait.
Just to chime in, I installed one of those mondo mail boxes that you can see from space. No more problems with things being crammed in to a small mail box.
All of mine are heavly used copys, solves that problem, dog-eared and grease stained like everything else i own, but oh well there just books
My favorite magazine ever. I buy it at borders book store, because if I were a subscriber and it showed up at my house damaged......I'd have to go ahead and kill the mailman.
HAHAHA!!!!! I did the same. I felt sorry for the mailman always having to come to the door so he could deliver packages (I'm an ebay junkie). Now, anything up to the size of a crate motor will just slip in the mailbox. I had stepped outside first time he stopped with an oversize package after I installed the box and I got a big thumbs up and a huge smile. Frank
MY mailcarrier drives up the driveway and lays on the horn until we open the door. The then yells at us to come get the big package from him... MY Rodders Journal doesnt get mangled like the picture shown... but it does take two hands and a firm tug to remove it from my mail box.
Rodders Journal Day at my house is always a holiday. I read it cover to cover each time one arrives. Then, after a while, I read them all again.
You can buy them on Ebay too including back issues. I have bought some from a dealer and also TRJ sells them too.
Here in Phoenix, whenever a new issue of the Rodder's Journal arrives at the post office, the Postmaster notifies the Mayor, who declares the following day to be Rodder's Journal Day. The precious magazines are delivered by a fleet of four Post Office Jeeps, which are specially adorned with red wheels, and, as a tribute to our New York brothers, fake patina. Shown above are the elite squad of four Phoenix postal workers who have been hand-picked to pilot the retrobilly Jeeps and deliver the eagerly-awaited cargo to the homes of the Truly Hardcore and the Terminally Hip. It's quite a scene. Dave http://www.roadsters.com/
I subscribed for years- and they always got mangled. The shitty mags (well meaning family gifts) always arrived perfect though. Go figure. Wife buys lots of books so we have a B&N discount card & I get 10% off the price & I can pick the pristine copy from the pile. Works out close to same price.
Looks like they didn't match their outfits enough...not enough planning time... Dude #3...Man can't you see every one is wearing beaters...you've got a T-shirt asshole!! Dude # 4 to Dude #3....Well I'm not the asshole in the baseball cap...c'mon man you know you were supposed to wear a fedora! Dudes #3 and 4...Hey at least we aren't like the asshole with chucks... Dude #2...Man it's all my mom could get me...The stamp lickin' job is keepin' me down homeboy.... Dudes 1 3 and 4...Shut the hell up bro your makin' us look like chumps... any who...I love TRJ...I buy mine at the book store though...It's to hard to fill out one of them subscription cards.
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