When is the "How has HP changed my life" contest over...

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1605

Hi:

Scott wrote:

> Secondly I was wondering whether the dates for the contest entries
> have been changed, or maybe I'm just going daffy...probably the
> latter.
>
> I mailed my entry on the 11th of September and was under the
> impression at the time that it was the last day. As of last night
> however the scholastic said that entries must be postmarked by the
> 18th.  Winners were supposed to be noified by the 18th but now it is
> the 25th...did it really change or am I really going crazy?  If it
> did change then why, possibly they didn't get enough entries???

Someone posted something to one of the HP lists this past week regarding
the problem of Alaska & Hawaii.  Apparently, Scholastic had initially
limited participation to residents of one of the 48 contiguous states,
and students from Alaska & Hawaii raised such a storm of protest, that
Scholastic was forced to change their rules & extend the entry
deadline.  I'm not sure why they excluded AL & HI in the first place --
what a weird restriction.  Limiting it to U.S. residents makes some
sense, but why the 48 contiguous states?  I was very surprised when I
read the article discussing the protests from AL residents.

Penny



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