We know. You most certainly weren’t dreaming of a white Tuesday. Neither were we, though it was a rather nice surprise for a number of our advertisers; we can only imagine the delight of the folks who are currently advertising snowplows, snow blowers, snow tires and all other sorts of cold-weather accoutrements.
But whether (weather?) we’re ready for it or not, we had a winter wonderland on our hands this morning (interesting fact: the song ‘Winter Wonderland’ was written about Hawley, Pa., but that’s a subject for another post). And it’s funny how that first set of flakes does start to get you into the holiday spirit. So we felt it was a great time to let you know our plans for the upcoming holidays.
Our office will be closed on Thursday, November 28th in observation of Thanksgiving. But we will be here on Friday, November 29th. We never miss a Black Friday, and that’s mainly because it falls squarely on our deadline day. And neither snow, nor sleet, nor big screen TVs at rock bottom prices can keep us away from putting together the following week’s book. We’ll have our usual deadline of 11 AM on the 29th for the December 4th issue.
The final issue of the year will be the December 18th issue. It’ll be on stands for three weeks and it is – by far – the largest issue we produce all year. The deadline for that behemoth edition is 11 AM on Friday, December 13th. And even though there are no more issues until January 8, 2014, we’ll still be here in the office to take your ads and every single one we get will be posted on thepapershop.com within 30 minutes of us receiving it.
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