Intake

Send a document, a date and a page

The form below is the only intake channel. It reaches the two editors who read submissions, and it is checked once each working morning.

Include the office that issued the document, the date it was filed, and the page or docket number. A submission without those three things usually cannot be verified, and the desk would rather tell you that than sit on it.

A quarry gatehouse window at dusk lit by one warm lamp, dust on the glass — The desk takes submissions the way a gatehouse takes paperwork: one window, one stamp, one copy for the file.

Response: Within five working days. A holding note goes out sooner when a document needs authentication.
Records: Page numbers, docket numbers and filing stamps are kept with the submission in the desk file.
Corrections: Name the item, the sentence and the document that settles the difference. The correction is dated and attached.
Not accepted: Press releases without attachments, unsourced claims, and requests to send travel or product.