[X] My Assistant

[elakdawalla]

The Planetary Society is embarking on a major effort to clean out our building in preparation for selling it and moving in to more modern quarters. (While this has something to do with the state of our finances, it has much more to do with the fact that our headquarters is an architecturally significant building that needs a lot of repair and restoration, and The Society has taken the decision that restoring significant architecture to the tune of several hundreds of thousands of dollars is not an appropriate use of our members' dues and donations.) As a result, in a month we'll be doing a great big sale and giveaway from the house, and among the things we're giving away are back issues of The Planetary Report.

I figure many people here would be interested in receiving back issues but won't be able to drop by the sale. So -- if the demand is not too overwhelming -- I might be interested in assembling packages of back issues for a small number of people. I'd ask you to pay for postage and a little extra for my time, whatever you think that's worth. I'd ship using Priority Mail flat rate boxes. I weighed a stack of Planetary Reports and it comes out almost exactly to one pound per year (6 issues). Here is the domestic Priority mail rate scale, and here is the international rate scale. I'd entertain requests for single issues but would prefer it if you'd just request whole years (or continuous date ranges) as that requires much less thinking on my part. I think I will probably be able to find whole years' worth going back to 1990; before that, there are some issues missing here and there from our collections.

Send me an email (blog at planetary.org) if you're interested.

--Emily

[elakdawalla]

May I point out that there's no "finally" about that one, Phil -- if you'd wanted a copy of that issue all you needed to do was join the Society at the time it was published earlier this year!

Yes, we do take Paypal. Contact me by email at blog at planetary.org and I'll get the details to you.

--Emily

[Julius]

I did send email on address provided but had no answer up to now.Is my request to have back issues from the very start up to 1989(thats when i became a member) possible or too far fetched?