LOUISIANA ENTHUSIASTS doubtless understood if their fall issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas came a little late last year: The quarterly magazine’s fall issue should have rolled off the presses and into the mail on Sept. 30, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina it wasn’t finished and shipped until Nov. 15.
Those in the New Orleans area, however, received their copies considerably later then that. In addition, if they looked carefully at the wrapper they would have seen that it cost the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH), which publishes the magazine, a lot more to get it into their hands.
That’s because 1,500 copies were not allowed to go into the mail-processing stream at the Houston distribution center where they initially were dropped off. These magazines had been bound for ZIP codes within areas of New Orleans that are receiving only first class mail. To reduce the volume of mail going into the affected area, standard mail and periodicals are refused at the point of entry.
That did not sit well with Michael Sartisky, the LEH’s president and CEO.
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