UNDELIVERED MAGAZINES ON SALE
My latest magazine mystery involves recent editions of Flight International magazine, still within their delivery wrappers and displaying the original intended recipient. More than 100 such examples were on sale last weekend at one of the book and magazine retailers at Bangkok's Chatuchak Market.
The source of these magazine is likely to be the Thai delivery company. It appears these copies were undelivered for a variety of reasons and were supposed to be returned as undelivered to an address in Germany They ended up for sale at the market for 25 baht per copy.
Flight International operates a mix of paid-for an qualified free distribution. A paid subscription for one year is US$199 for delivery to Thailand but the magazine's latest ABC audit statement shows jut 49 of the 322 copies delivered to the Kingdom were paid for. The remainder were complimentary to senior executives within the industry.
What's worrying here is that personal details for the three copies I purchased include a C-level airline executive, a high-ranking member of an overseas embassy in Bangkok and the CEO of a Thai technology company.
An email to Flight International and its subscriptions agent requesting comment remains unanswered.
3 comments:
Interesting... Last year, I subscribed to Wired magazine and received less than half of my annual subscription. The strange thing was that the last 3 copies I received came batched together (2 past issues and 1 current issue). After that, nothing. I wonder if those missing copies made it to JJ?? Do you know who distributes Wired in Thailand? Puzzling...
Anonymous. I don't know but I will find out. Subscription copies will almost certainly arrive through either Thailand Post or one of the big global distributors such as Deutche Post or DHL. The last bit of the journey to your door is likely to be a local company however.
You will certainly be interested in a story I'm posting tomorrow relating to a very, very similar incident as the one you've experienced.
Thanks! Look fwd to your post.
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