Paper shortage .. I had no idea!

[creskol]

I recently finished a pictorial history book and sent it to the publisher. I just received this email:

 

[pepperj]

I recently finished a pictorial history book and sent it to the publisher. I just received this email:View attachment 2010664

Probably processed it all for 💩 paper.
Nobody reads they figured.
Sad day for the book 🌎

 

[ARC]

Preppers are hoarding it...

In case the internet email goes down.

:P

 

[Red-Coat]

Hope you get your book published eventually.

Same problem in Europe. The shortage is pretty much international, due to a number of factors including Covid-related labour shortages. It has especially affected specialist printing papers since pulping capacity was diverted to mundane things like toilet paper which experienced ridiculous demand due to people stockpiling.

What you need to know about the national paper shortage | ICS Corporation

While we have felt the pains of the paper shortage in the Direct Mail industry for a long time, Today reports that the national paper shortage is creating order delays felt across several different industries including schools and grocery stores.

www.ics-corporation.com

 

[ARC]

Yeah some people need more toilet paper... due to the obvious...

they are full of s--t.

 

[CreakyDigger]

People have no idea how bad shortages really are. For many products the raw materials are not available. Stock up, my friends.

 

[gillious]

A lot of paper is going into masks

 

[smallfoot]

Not really sure of the whys and what fors but I just witnessed within the last few months that the guy that purchased property next door paid most of the purchase off by logging nearly 100 acres. They got the large pines, bays, and pulp pines. After hauling all the mill logs out, they quit hauling the pulp wood out because the price per trailer of pulp timber went down to $35 a load. Now there are piles of pulp wood laying out rotting on the ground. They won't be trees. Sucks but I can't blame them. Lots of work goes into a trailer full of pulp wood along with fuel costs and equipment and not even considering having to drive them to the coast to get on ships bound for China. Sure was lots of waste for being behind on manufacture...

 

[Ed_DE]

People have no idea how bad shortages really are. For many products the raw materials are not available. Stock up, my friends.

I’m one of those people that been stockpiling. I work in a paper mill and a couple times a year we can buy cases of product very cheap.

 

[gldnbrew]

I recently finished a pictorial history book and sent it to the publisher. I just received this email:View attachment 2010664

Quick Call your publisher tell them that you found enough paper to print your book😂🤣😇🤭

 

[ticndig]

All the paper is being seized by uncle sniff-a-kid so they can make more monopoly money.

 

[traveller777]

I’m one of those people that been stockpiling. I work in a paper mill and a couple times a year we can buy cases of product very cheap. View attachment 2010800

Thanks. Now we know where to go if there is a total failure on toilet paper supply.