Fairfax Media Publication Solutions has communicated to distribution newsagents about the new early returns process for titles taken over from NDD. This is a good and necessary step if FMPS wants to establish itself as a viable magazine distribution alternative.
The next step is to achieve XchangeIT compliance. I understand progress is being made in this regard.
The final step is to facilitate a direct relationship with retail only newsagents who already have direct supply relationsips with Gotch and Network. This will be essential to FMPS achieving retail penetration close to that of NDD.
withh regards to early returns ,can you early return say something that comes in today i tried early returning mags that i have on my shelf yesterday and they are not listed for ealt return , so do they expect it to go on the shelf for a period of time first ?for now i am still giving fairfax a chance but not for much longer . i only sell a few financial reviews a week but yet my weekly bill is hundred of dollars so not sure how much longer i can wait for exchangit to start working
Hopefully the credits for early returns are a bit quicker than they are for shortages, which currently take about six weeks to be credited. Hardly fair to be charged for publications which weren’t even received then have to wait six weeks for credits.
Shauns – we were instructed by Fairfax to contact our Fairfax Area Rep who will personally come and collect our early returns. So far, this arrangement has worked for us.