Arrow damage

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Yes, the Arrow used to be shipped in an envelope. I get many magazines in plastic wrappers or paper envelopes and I get many with nothing covering them. I'm sure the paper envelope adds cost and adds time to getting the magazines to us.
I also have to say that the magazines I get in some sort of wrapper don't arrive with any bent. torn or soiled pages. Magazines with no protection often suffer with bent , torn and soiled pages.
What's the answer? I can't say as I'm not in the loop making any decisions. I can say I get pretty POed when my anxiously awaited magazines arrive damaged. Often to the point they are worthless to me.
My latest Arrow arrived with a couple ripped pages. I like to keep all my railroad HS magazines so having them arrived in a less-than-perfect condition is a big bother to me.
I'm sure the amount of damage can also be attributed to the PO centers and local post offices too. When I lived in Scum City (Houston, TX) for 35 years I had many, many issues with damaged mail be it covered, 1st class, parcel, media mail or whatever. Here in NW Arkansas I haven't had much problem with any mail for the past 5 years. Some PO centers and local PO's probably have different standards they go by.
My vote is for some sort of protection.
Roger HuberDeer Creek Locomotive Works 

    On Friday, June 22, 2018, 12:08:41 PM CDT, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
  Yes, The Arrow used to be shipped in an envelope and I always thought that was a waste of money as it was my only magazine to arrive in an envelope. I'm fine with the current shipping method.
Brian DembinskiAmherst, Oh________________________________________
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