How Hard Is It to Deliver a Newspaper?

[Porkopolis]

Vent time. Last week I started my subscription to the Sunday Enquirer. It took over two weeks to get going due to "processing time," which in the modern era is ridiculous but is also a whole other issue for a whole other time. I live in a high rise and thus have a neighbor across the hall. I opened up my door this morning, expecting to find that shining beacon of journalistic achievement, and what did I find? He received his paper and I didn't. Really, is it that hard to turn around and drop the paper two feet away? To add insult to injury, the automated customer service line told me my route doesn't finish until seven and to call back. Yeah? Well, unless there are separate carriers for the right and left side of my hallway I'll have to call back in forty minutes.

Grr, I hate the Enquirer. The only reason I subscribe is to get the freakin' coupons. If they were playing baseball a .500 average would be great, but not with newspaper delivery. Back in the day when I had a seven day subscription it was the same problem; I didn't have the issue in any other city I've ever lived in. It's like Gannet is totally inept. How hard is it to deliver a paper to both myself AND my neighbor?

[Muskie1000]

you do know that you can get the freakin coupons online now?

[Kahns Krazy]

We get the paper delivered every day. It hasn't been bad lately, but I would say in the first year we were in our house, something got messed up about our delivery on average at least once a week.

I like holding the paper in my hand when I read it in the morning. It's just a habit, and an admittedly stupid one. I just like browsing the paper in paper form.

The Enquirer makes is very hard to let me enjoy that.

[xeus]

I like holding the paper in my hand when I read it in the morning. It's just a habit, and an admittedly stupid one. I just like browsing the paper in paper form.



I don't think reading the paper in paper form is a stupid habit. There's more to the art of reading than simple intake of information. There's a sensory experience that only paper can provide. There's an enjoyable format to a newspaper, or a real book made of paper, that will never be replicated.

[XU 87]

I don't think reading the paper in paper form is a stupid habit. There's more to the art of reading than simple intake of information. There's a sensory experience that only paper can provide. There's an enjoyable format to a newspaper, or a real book made of paper, that will never be replicated.

I'm at a loss at how to respond to this.

[xeus]

I'm at a loss at how to respond to this.

Did you know the Harry Potter series also comes in a book version?

[smileyy]

I'm at a loss at how to respond to this.

Well it is hard to replicate nostalgia. It's all digital for me.

[XU-PA]

For decades and decades I've had home delivery. Went over the dam thing page by page, everyday, did the crossword, the whole works. Living up here in Maine, we've got three major dailies in the southern part of the state, with their arrangement to share news they collectively make up about half of the newspaper I grew up reading in Cincinnati.
Biased reporting, reporting direct from press releases, publishing polls without questioning the methodology, completely unqualified reporters and on and on and on I could go.

Anyway, I gave it up, cold turkey, no paper about 3 weeks ago, I had the nerves and fidgets like giving up smoking, but now I've found I haven't missed shit, and I have about an hour every morning back!

Newspapers got no one to blame but themselves for their demise.

[xeus]

It's all digital for me.

Cool!

[Porkopolis]

you do know that you can get the freakin coupons online now?

Of course. But it costs more in ink and paper to print them than it does to buy the physical paper.