Magazines in wrappers

Since buying my new Digital Camera I've been looking at ways at trying to sell photographs in order to get some of the out lay back... This isn't something new to me, I did try it back in the mid-80's but only sold one picture back then. Anyway, when I heard that there was an aircraft coming through Eastleigh Airport on delivery, I rushed down, hoping to get a picture of it, knowing that magazines might be interested. Well I got the picture... Sent off a thumbnail of it to a magazine editor and he replied that he wanted the full size version and that he'll try and put it in the magazine. That was a few weeks ago. Today I trot down to the newsagents to see if my picture was in the new edition of the magazine. To my horror realised that the magazine had a supplement this month and so was wrapped in plastic. So there was no way I could check in the magazine without splitting open the packet. Something the newsagent wouldn't want me to do. So I ended up buying the magazine anyway, only to find that my picture wasn't in there. Maybe it was too late for this edition and will be in the next one. I bet next months will be in plastic as well.