MAILING

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The bundle mailed at definite intervals by an Amateur Press Association, containing the magazines sent in during the previous chronon for distribution to the membership. In the APAs publication produced by the individual members at their own expense (for the fun of it, and for exchanges) are sent to the person designated as mailing manager ( Official Editor or Association Editor, in fandom) who on a designated date sends a copy of each, with the official organ he puts out, to every member; postage is paid by the treasury. This constitutes the "mailing"; it is capitalized when referring to a particular one, like the August Mailing or the Eighty-Eighth Mailing. For purposes of tabulation, postmailings are regarded as part of the mailing they follow chronologically.

In fan APAs it is required that publications to be distributed with the mailing represent "to a substantial extent" the work of a member, that sufficient copies for all members be provided, and that they be duplicated by some means giving "identical" copies.