COVID-19 has even had an impact on the Journal of Olympic History. The last edition was completed at the end of March following the lighting of the Olympic flame. Unfortunately, international mail has since experienced massive disruptions. The magazine is normally delivered to 206 countries. The copies were sent out by Deutsche Post, but by no means did all of them make it to their destination. We believe that around 160 countries were affected, although our information is incomplete.
We have only received a few complaints and claims, so we assume that most of our readers have understood this difficult situation. We are very grateful for their patience.
In the meantime, a great number of packages have been returned. We imagine that there are still some copies at large in the postal system but it is impossible for us to determine exactly who received the Journal and who did not. In order to prevent any further unnecessary costs, we ask you to let us know whether you still wish to receive the print version of this issue or if the electronic version will be sufficient this time around. This last issue, no. 1/2020, can be found on our website (www.isoh.org) and has been made available to everyone free of charge.
We must point out that mailing hard copies will only be possible if postal shipping to the relevant countries has been resumed.
As far as this issue, no. 2/2020, is concerned, we will send out the hard copy once we have a guarantee that the dispatch will reach the recipient. In other cases we will keep the printed edition until normal postal services are resumed to ensure that it can be delivered to readers in these countries. Until then, we kindly ask you to use the electronic version.
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