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L Verge · 10-30-2014, 01:02 PM

(10-29-2014 07:19 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote:
(10-29-2014 11:44 AM)L Verge Wrote:
(10-29-2014 07:23 AM)Jim Garrett Wrote: I just got my courier on Monday. The USPS here in upper Montgomery County Md runs a bit slow. Susan, I hope you can stand a little constructive accolade. I think you really shouldn't leave us hanging! This is a superb piece of research that is authoritatively written and entertaining. I've said it before and will say it again, researcher/historians like Susan, Betty Ownsbey, and Rich Smyth and countless others are the people who bring history alive.....or in Rich's case, to death.
Susan, your biggest problem is that now we will expect more. Great article.

We're getting lots of praise on the article - and also some whining because it had to run in two parts. As those of you who have been longtime members of the Surratt Society know, our newsletter has grown in size over the past few years because the new "magazine" format allows it. However, I am holding it to 16 pages or less because of postage costs.

What you may not know is that the government agency which owns Surratt House pays the first class postage each month for us to mail to over 1600 members nationwide. They also pay air mail class for our 15 overseas members. One 16-page newsletter costs $1.19. I don't want to run the bills up any higher by increasing the size of the newsletter.

Laurie,
Have you ever considered offering the newsletter in either the printed format (as we receive now) or in a pdf format via email? I would be willing to receive the newsletter in electronic format if that would save a wonderful organization like the Surratt House Museum money in printing and mailing costs - I would guess others might as well. Scott

We have considered the email routine, but as long as the government is willing to pay the postage, it is less work on us. It is their way of saying thank you for the thousands of hours that our volunteers donate to the museum - hours that they would otherwise have to pay for (and likely could not or would not).

We also have had people tell us that they save every issue and put them in folders or notebooks.