If you are a regular LifeTips writer, you have been checking your mailbox in vain for last month’s pay check. Did it get swept away by Hurricane Hannah? Did the nosey neighbor cash it? Did the mailman eat it?

While I’d like to blame it on one of these very likely possibilities, I must be honest and admit that we sent your August check out late this month. And I’d like to emphasize what our new accountant, April, has said in an email she sent all of you: We are sorry!

LifeTips underwent a personnel transition at the end of August. This bumped the immensely important task of paying writers a week behind schedule. I want you to know as the manager of the production department that we did our best to send checks out as soon as April was initiated to the payment process, and we also reached out to let you know about the delay in personal emails. Now that April is here full time, we don’t foresee this problem happening again in the future.

Thank you for your patience as we settle back into our normal end-of-month payment routine. And if your check still doesn’t arrive in the next day or two, we may need to alert the authorities of a peculiarly hungry mailman.