It's in a sad mess to be sure.

I have had great reliability of delivery and pretty good content with Engineering In Miniature. Worth a look. Cheers.

As hopper says I always advise to view the latest edition son Pocketmags and do that on a regular basis. They are there to view on a better viewer and with the option to print and view offline.

Details of how to use the Pocketmags viewer can always be found by clicking "digital" on the black bar towards the top of the page

Edited By JasonB on 09/05/2022 07:16:48

I would reckon that with the post pandemic period going straight into a takeover situation subscribers will just have to be patient and wait for the new ME gang to sort themselves out, and that could take a few months

I don't use the Internet for any regular publications but the latest printed edition of ME arrived safely last week, so the "new ME gang" are at off to a good start there, at least.

The only noticeable difference is the "Mortons" trade-mark and services addresses. Mortons are the publishers, not the printer or distributors. Those functions are handed by a Wolverhampton and a London-based company, respectively.

Perhaps all customers are equal, but some are more equal than others ?

No complaints here with either delivery or content. I prefer reading paper to a computer screen and am happy to wait for the postal service to deliver. Issues don't arrive at a precise time, so I don't get into a froth at the first sign of trouble. With one exception, the magazines have always turned up early and late. The exception was when the Royal Mail lost an entire pallet full of magazines destined for a blob of the South West covering parts of Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire. Gosh it was exciting!

I don't get quite the same thrill from ME and MEW as I did when the hobby was all new and shiny to me, but both mags usually contain a few treats and every so often an edition arrives that must have been written specially for me! I guess some unlucky folk occasionally get mags with nothing in 'em. But this is down to taste and changing interest. I don't buy magazines unless they keep me happy – it's a personal choice. Jeff Dayman recommends 'Engineering in Miniature' instead – fine publication I know, but it's not my cup of tea. I've tried it!

Delivery is another issue entirely. The postal service I get is excellent – very few delays and stuff going missing is almost unknown. Not everyone is so lucky. A friend in Thailand says less than half his mail gets to him! Whether it's fair to blame MyTimeMedia or 'the New Gang' for poor delivery is a moot point, especially now. Having been involved in a few mergers and major reorganisations myself, I recommend cutting the new gang some slack. If it can go wrong, it will.

Just a fun observation: my job was so skilled and enormously difficult it's amazing how brilliantly I performed; I deserved a medal. Your job would have been done better by a demented chimp and there would be no problems if only you pulled your finger out and stopped being a total plonker; your kind deserve a good thrashing. I put it to the jury that both perceptions are wrong!

And COVID is still causing lots of workforce disruption, even though us pensioners fink it should all be over by now. It isn't…

Dave

Ant ideas for a replacement home engineering subscription?

Readly ?

ME, MEW, EiM & the German magazine Maschinen im Modelbau all on there now (along with 6000+ other titles) for £9.99 a month. The latest issue of ME was posted late last week. Not much in the way of back issues for ME (current + 2 previous) & non for MEW yet (just latest issue), but EiM & MiM have both been on Readly for a while & there can be couple of years worth of older issues.

I use Readly on an old Tesco Hudl. Copies can be saved to the device memory for reading offline, but I am unaware of any print options. You can try Readly FOC for 2 months before the monthly charge kicks in & the subscription can be accessed by up to 6 (IIRC) e-mail addresses linked to the main account.

Not an option if you want to build up a paper archive, but if you read & pass on (or recycle) paper copies & have a suitable device it might be worth a look.

Nigel B.

Hi Jason,

I would like to use Pocketmags but have no idea where my subscription number might be.

I have had the digital option now for years and just use the forum viewer but it is a bit clunky so thought I might try what you suggest.

Cheers Martin

Martin, the easiest way as you will have entered your subs number to view the online archive is to click "settings" top left of the green bar and just scroll down your details to the box with your subs number(s) in.

I'm now in a position to answer my earlier question about the June issue, as it has just plopped through the letterbox! Skipping through it, though, it seems the same thing has happened again, the July issue apparently not due until July 22nd, not June.

John

Edited By John Hinkley on 17/05/2022 10:53:46

Youve pretty much summed up what I was saying,something isn’t delivered it will get cancelled.Using covid/post pandemic whatever the latest buzz word is today just isn’t an acceptable reason anymore.I hope the affected subscribers have their issues dealt with quickly.

Hi Kohn Hinckley. July issue published 22 July is an error or total stupidity.

A July issue is usually published towards the end of June so it is not out of date on newsagents shelves. Who wants to buy a July issue in the middle of August?