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March 2024

Orders continue to dribble in at a snails pace, and we only have a handful of stories this month to update you with on our March 2024 Analog to Digital blog. We're planning a Record Store Day Sale for April, but until then, maybe we should get into the lucrative business of selling DVD Rewinders; this clearly 'prank' plastic product simply spins the DVD counterclockwise!

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February 2024

A bit of frank news this month; we've noted a steady drop in annual sales for our Audio Conversion Services in the last few years (see our chart for a rough idea of the demise). Formed in 2005, we've managed to survive two office relocations and one worldwide pandemic in the last 19 years, but it seems we'll die of attrition; Our last week-long sale netted zero orders, even after we announced it to a thousand loyal customers. Have we saturated the Philadelphia audio conversion market completely? (More likely the fear of an upcoming recession has tightened budgets everywhere...) We'll need to see a significant turnaround to keep the Audio Conversion Services operating for another year on fumes. Under Design, our parent company, will continue to operate, but the Audio Conversion Services divisions may be shuttered permanently. Fair warning!

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January 2024

Happy New Year! We've been noticing issues with shipments using USPS Tracking numbers (and specifically our beloved Label 400, pictured to the right) when we discovered this USPS News Link Service update from early last year reporting this discontinuation of those tracking stickers. This has forced us to remove our Simple Shipper line of products immediately. Our Simple Shipper was a pre-paid cardboard return mailer for you to return your Vinyl Records to us. We relied on USPS Media Mail rate, in combination with basic stamps and USPS Label 400 Tracking stickers to reliably track shipments to and from our customers for everyone's sanity. We mourn the loss of this highly used feature, and apologize to our customers for not noticing the retirement earlier. As a replacement, we sell a single corrugated cardboard Vinyl Box shipped to you directly to let you ship your records securely back to our offices for audio conversion, but it has neither tracking nor return postage on it - it's an empty box, just album-sized.

December 2023

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September 2023

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July/August 2023

July was a busy month, with our annual national birthday celebration and all... So we combined the single story from July into our August report. Pictured to the right, an end table for a man cave made from recycled VHS tapes! You're welcome for the recycling idea!

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June 2023

May 2023

I'll leave you with this brain fart before we dive into it: Cassette Tapes had a Side A and Side B, therefore it was logical that its successor would be the CD!

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April 2023

March 2023

February 2023

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January 2023

Happy New Year! Time to whip out your resolutions list and add 'Clean out my families cherished old vinyl/tape media and get it converted to digital formats at Under Design!' We'd really appreciate it!

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