Do you have an estimate on when the zine will arrive and be sent out?

I’m so glad you’re as excited as we are to receive the zine. We’ve really been champing at the bit to get them to our studio too!

Shipping times are still uncertain: for our production copy, we were quoted a full week’s wait for arrival, and it took about a week and a half to make its way here. We had tracking for that and for the first print run, and for the production copy, the shipping didn’t actually update with movement until about an hour from its delivery. 

Our full production run comes out to 152 lbs of books, so that may delay it further. Additionally, although our printer is based out of Quebec, all shipments route through a shipping centre in London, Ontario, and Ontario is dealing with very strict lockdown procedures right now. We anticipate that’s going to be the lengthiest delay. 

The day we receive the books, both Jack and I will be taking off from work and spending the full day packing envelopes and printing shipping labels. Unless otherwise requested, everything will be going through letter post, which has a shipping time comparable to the tracked packages, but is at a much more affordable rate. Jack has a business account with the Canada Post, and we can do a bulk order drop-off at our local distro. If it will take another day to get the packages out, we’ll take another day to do it. Canada Post doesn’t move mail over the weekend, so it’s more expedient to take time off and ensure they get their start on a week-day.

We’ll be taking pictures of the arrival, the sorting, the packing, and the final packets for transparency’s sake.

Thank you so much for asking! If you’ve already purchased a copy, you should also have the PDF version free of charge to enjoy the contents while you wait. :)