[Tim Brooks]

Approximately how long does it take for all the pieces to come together? I understand that there could be delays here and there, causing delays in shipment...

Fair question, but the answer is I won't know until the vendors schedule everything, and then we still miss about 60% of the time. Why, well our Last three misses were:

1. CD's were shipped to Washington DC by UPS - we are in North Carolina. It then took UPS three days to get them from DC to us - a 7 hour trip by car.

2. The printing press broke down in the middle of the cover run. This caused a one day delay in getting the manual to the binder. The binder had us scheduled of course, but that one day miss meant the binder couldn't do the job for 3 more days.

3. The CD duplicator pushed our job back two days to do a 2,000,000 CD run for WalMart.

So, when we get everything to the vendors the schedule will be set and we will let you know our "projected" ship date. Which has about a 60% chance of sliding.

Is Oct 30th out of the question? No. But it is looking less and less likely. Alot depends on when we get the manual and how much work is invloved in getting it ready to print.

And now to make everyone's day, we are moving into the Christmas season, for CD's and printing this usually pushes delivery times out by 3 - a one week turn around becomes a 3 week turnaround, etc.