seemed like a good idea at the time

About six weeks ago I cashed in some frequent flyer miles for magazine subscriptions. So far, my wife has received one issue of Rolling Stone and I've received two issues of Time, one issue of Maxim and five issues of Daily Variety.

At first it looked like each Daily Variety would arrive only five days late but five soon turned into ten. As I'm waiting for a mother lode of back issues to all arrive on the same day, I've been keeping track of the mail:

Saturday, December 10: received the Monday, Dec. 5 issue
Monday, December 12: did not receive an issue
Tuesday, December 13: received the Tuesday, Dec. 6 issue
Wednesday, December 14: received the Wednesday, Dec. 7 issue
Thursday, December 15: did not receive an issue
Friday, December 16: did not receive an issue
Saturday, December 17: received the Thursday, Dec. 8 issue
Monday, December 19: received the Friday, Dec. 9 issue

Maybe things will improve after Christmas and maybe I shouldn't be complaining about this on the busiest mailing day of the year.