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January 25, 2024 20:27
https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/13290-donald-duck-tijdschrift?cf%5B6752%5D=5950725

Is it true that the DDs will be shipped without a plastic cover and with name and address print on the back from 1 2024? If so, that's a shame.
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@ harry yes this is correct due to savings on plastic with DPG media, first started as a test at no. 43/2023 with address details printed on it, these have a different back, these are nos. 43/44/45/46/48/50/51/52 nos. 47 and 49 appeared in a white address envelope. After thousands of complaints to DPG Media, they have reversed the matter somewhat, so that the Donald Duck now appears in 3 ways (simply in a seal with an address card in it, blank back. Please indicate this when taking out a subscription.) (2)( loose sheet with address details printed on it)(3)( with paperback subscription in white envelope with address on it)(4)( loose in the store with blank back)
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January 26, 2024 08:20
patrick1234567890

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Who would come up with something like that at that large media group... So there has already been a flow of complaints.

Even if you didn't collect Donald Ducks and only had a subscription for your children (or yourself), this wouldn't be fun. Donald Duck is certainly not cheap. It's fine that the group is doing its best to comply with the "Plastic Out of the World" regulations, but as standard there can be an envelope or something around it and not a single name and address printed on a sheet. And a blank rectangle on a back?
And the 3-way alternative is hilarious...

As a seller and/or buyer collector, you now also have to pay attention to that name and address stuff. Wouldn't it be useful to write something about that address thing on the info page at the top? Not that everyone reads that, but before you know it, buyers receive something they do not expect. There are many (if not all) collectors who do not want name and address stickers on comic magazines (this used to be the case for a while with DD's and Suske Wiske weekly), let alone name and address print, in their collection. I'd like to do that too, but I'm curious first if the comic strip administrators have any ideas.

Finally: how should you qualify a Donald Duck, no matter how new, with name and address printed?

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  • January 26, 2024 09:18
January 26, 2024 09:18
Unfortunately, Tina is also shipped that way these days, loose without anything around it and an address printed on the back. Only if there is a separate attachment (usually advertising) will it be placed in an envelope.
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I hope there will be many more customers. I received this magazine at home by the postman in the pouring rain. So the leaf is completely ruined, you have to report it again and wait until you get another one. The subsequent delivery is neatly wrapped in plastic. It's getting crazier.
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February 08, 2024 20:44
westdorp54 Eadulf patrick1234567890

I just wanted to share this with you: today the new Donald landed in my mailbox.
Nice, isn't it... Now it was a zip code lottery prize, so oh well...
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Yes, I have had this experience too, neat example in the rain. If you complain, you will hopefully receive a new one neatly wrapped in plastic. That's what they call savings!
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Yes, the publisher apparently does not consider its own products very important. I have an outdoor van, so every time it rains on a delivery day it is quite a challenge to get the magazine dry into the house (hope that there is also a newspaper in the van to fold the magazine in, that works). I have also sometimes ruined a song because, once inside, drops of my hair fell onto the page. Grrrr!
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Eadulf westdorp54 patrick1234567890

In any case, my complaint was apparently heard in the end, today Donald plopped into the mailbox, environmentally consciously wrapped.

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Ah, great! I'm curious whether this is a one-off or whether you will receive the magazine this way from now on, because if the latter is the case, I will also contact them.
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Eadulf

The Ducks that I used to receive in plastic sleeves actually all ended up (miraculously) neatly in the mailbox. And this one in a thin paper envelope was neatly placed in the letterbox by the postman, but when it plops on the floor it dents much sooner than such a plastic one. And when it rains, TTV delivery, well, it's just like tissue paper... Congratulations to our careful mail deliverers, through all kinds of weather, that may also be said.

As a collector who wants absolute new condition and no name and address information on the back, you should actually buy the Ducks in a comic shop or from a Primera or other magazine dealer.
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Eadulf westdorp54 patrick1234567890

The Continuing Story of DPG and Donald Duck...

The Duck with at least an envelope was unfortunately a one-off. No 10 plopped into the letterbox without protection, luckily neatly.
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February 29, 2024 19:34
Harry56

no, that is not a one-off, unless you indicate that you want to receive your Duck in seal, you will receive the number with address print as standard, only if there is an "attachment", as was the case with number 9, you will receive your Duck in the appropriate paper packaging.
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