03.11.2011

Printing cock-up

Robbie Rix knows you can do it

We apologise to subscribers for the late delivery of the last two issues of the Weekly Worker. Hopefully you are reading this on the usual day of the week (for most people Friday) - not the Saturday, or even Monday, that was the case with numbers 886 and 887.

The cause of the delay was that - for some reason that is still a mystery to me - we were unable to email the pdf of the paper to our printers in the correct format. In actual fact, the printers didn’t notice the pdf error in the October 20 issue, and they delivered us the paper complete with blank spaces! We didn’t think readers would appreciate that, so we had to get it reprinted on the Friday. On October 27 a similar error occurred, which this time was spotted. But by the time it was corrected it was too late for the printers and once more we took delivery a day late.

Anyhow, these things happen, and for once it was not down to cash. But it did cost us - the fault was down to us and we had to fork out for the reprinting. A pity, because that extra expense more than wiped out the surplus to our October fighting fund. Thanks to some sizable donations in the last four days of the month, we notched up a total of £1,402 - easily exceeding our £1,250 target.

For that we have to thank JME (£44) and RP (£10), who provided their contributions via PayPal (they were among 17,698 online readers, by the way), and a number of standing order donors, including JT (£75!), PM (£30) and EL (£20). Our October fund was boosted by £212 in those last four days.

And we have done just as well in the first three days of November - well, actually, we were £1 worse off, with £211 received since the start of the month! All of that came via standing orders - and how welcome they were. But we now need to make up the shortfall caused by that printing cock-up, so, just for November, I am raising the target to £1,350.

I know you can do it!