Dear Hugh,

I've enjoyed SurvivalBlog for many years and gained great insight and direction into preparedness from your website. And I'm so glad that Mr. Rawles was able to find such a like-minded talent such as yourself [to become Managing Editor].

One thing that I learned from Mr. Rawles was the value of precious metals in any preparedness repertoire, and over the past several years have put that strategy into effect. One of your sponsors, as you know, is Northwest Territorial Mint. Several years ago I purchased some gold Krugerands and a bag of "junk" silver from them. The service at that time was very courteous and the delivery was prompt.

Fast forward to this year, and my experience with the company has been quite different. Hopefully my experience is not typical, but I thought you should at least be aware of it.

June 25th, 2014. I ordered a monster box of Silver Canadian Maples. I was promised delivery in approximately 6 weeks.

August 25th, 2014 (approx.) I called to check on the order and was informed that the product was en-route to NWT and the shipping date to me was scheduled for August 25-29.

September, 2014. The product had still not arrived. Called NWT mint and was told that the product was scheduled to ship on September 29.