Network Services issued the following advice this afternoon to Queensland newsagents:
Metro Customers:
Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast areas – We will deliver where possible to these areas as close as possible to the normal schedule.
Brisbane – Due to road access and driver safety, deliveries will be progressively made, where possible, throughout the day on Friday.Country Customers:
There continues to be significant road closures to the north and west of Brisbane, not to mention local access issues. We are expecting this to remain the case for the next 5-7 days. As a result we are not expecting deliveries for Friday the 14th of January to made. NOTE – while there may be some exceptions to this, we expect this to apply to the vast majority of agents in this area.Far North Queensland Customers:
We don’t expect any deliveries to be made on Friday the 14th due to our inability to get stock to that region safely. .We do apologise for any delays in the supply lines caused by these recent events. We understand how important supply is to all businesses at this time, it is for this reason we wish to reinforce that supply has not been preferential. All supplies have been and will continue to be shipped to all businesses (regardless of type, size, sales volume) as soon as safe passage is available, the only factors influencing supply at this stage are the availability of drivers and safe access.
NOTE – We will be in touch as information comes to hand about Monday’s on-sales.
We are currently attempting to contact all retailers and agents whose business’ or towns have been inundated by flood waters. This is order to discuss how we can best assist you during this difficult time. If you have not yet been contacted we ask that you call our Flood Assistance Hotline on 1300 131 169 and select Option 1.
Wednesday magazines delivered today, no Friday magazines
no wed or friday up north but thats all good when they get here they get here . so far mag sales are not down a great deal . i basically kept every mag from mondays delivey and put them on the shelf so it dosn’t look so empty and the plus with this is i am selling mags that would not normally sell or i should say i would not normally give them a chance to sell because they have a bad sales history in the past . So far i have only had one winger about the thats life and take 5 mag she winged that this is the second week and i quickly replyed that if you have quick look at todays paper you might realise that most of the state of QLD is underwater and then in front of everyone she felt a bit stupid for complaining in the first place
None today.
Bread also dicey, though they say it should be back to normal on Monday.
good luck up there guys….
i can’t find a post to add this to so i’ll just post here since its Network related.
Did anyone one of you NOT get credit for december 18 returns? i have spoken with network 3-4 times to follow up and each time they told me that its not isolated to us and that a lot of people were affected.
so far, they haven’t issued any memo acknowledging that there is a problem.
it is quite a big sum for us and im definitely not going to pay it.
just wondering if any of you noticed the same thing.
ed, we just received email from Network Services, confirming this. Thanks to those who reported the problem. We have been unable to contact Network today by phone.