Prev Deliv Exception

A newspaper may have a policy of offering a previous day’s papers to new or restarting subscribers. For example, if a subscriber starts on Wednesday, the operator may offer to have the previous Sunday’s paper delivered for free. This “previous delivery” practice, however, may not be feasible for some routes or carriers. Those exceptions are defined here, in Prev Deliv Exception. A subscriber who is starting or restarting with a carrier, route, or route type for which an exception is entered will not be offered a previous day’s paper. See the User Manual for more information.

Note:

If you do not offer delivery of a publication’s previous papers, you do not need to enter anything in Prev Deliv Exception.

To enter a previous delivery exception:

• Select Prev Deliv Exception from the Products menu to display the Previous Delivery Exception screen.

  
• Click the Add icon and define the exception. The fields are described in the table below.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  PRODUCT	setup	Enter the ID of the publication for which you are entering a previous delivery exception (enter “*” if the route type, route, or carrier is used with multiple publications).
  ROUTE TYPE	setup	If a route type should be excepted, enter the route type here. All routes of this route type will then be exempt from previous delivery. Otherwise enter “*”.
  ROUTE	setup	If an individual route should be exempt from previous delivery, enter the route ID here. Otherwise enter “*”.
  ACCOUNT	setup	If an account should be exempt from previous delivery, enter the account ID here. All routes delivered by the carrier will be exempt from previous delivery (on the days the carrier delivers them). Otherwise enter “*”.
  START DATE, END DATE	date	Enter the date range during which this exception is in force. End Date may be blank.

• Click OK to save the previous delivery exception in the database or Add Another to save the existing record and add another previous delivery exception.