news papers cant get anyone to deliver: received this today from the wall street Journal. a couple of years ago the local papers stop delivering. "Due to logistical constraints, we...

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

received this today from the wall street Journal. a couple of years ago the local papers stop delivering.
"Due to logistical constraints, we will no longer be able to provide print delivery in your ZIP code. For this reason, you will be updated to a digital-only subscription starting April 1, 2024. "

What good is the digital. Oh well, half the articles were never proofread with paragraph long sentences and they were getting more left of center.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

home brewer wrote:

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What good is the digital. ...

Less paper waste.
Albeit an inconvenience for those of us who use newspaper knots for the fireplace.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

home brewer wrote:

received this today from the wall street Journal. a couple of years ago the local papers stop delivering.
"Due to logistical constraints, we will no longer be able to provide print delivery in your ZIP code. For this reason, you will be updated to a digital-only subscription starting April 1, 2024. "

What good is the digital. Oh well, half the articles were never proofread with paragraph long sentences and they were getting more left of center.

I’ve been getting my paper from a digital link for a few years now. It’s a pain in the katookie sometimes but at least I can get it when I travel, which helps me keep up on the local news.

srt101fan

Longshadow wrote:

Less paper waste.
Albeit an inconvenience for those of us who use newspaper knots for the fireplace.

It's getting harder to find paper to hang in the outhouse...

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

srt101fan wrote:

It's getting harder to find paper to hang in the outhouse...

(No more Sears catalogs either...)

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

srt101fan wrote:

It's getting harder to find paper to hang in the outhouse...

We just use the junk mailers we get.

pendennis

I've always preferred a hard copy of the daily newspaper to the electronic versions. We had the paper delivered for years, until 2020. The carrier really got lazy and started delivering the paper to the foot of the driveway, would only use the little plastic sacks occasionally. I complained nicely to him, and he ignored my communications. I then contacted the circulation department, and was advised that they would take corrective action. However, that never happened. I collected all the wet newspapers delivered, and when I fired the b***ard, I took all the old wet newspapers and dumped them on his front porch; there were at least 100. Never heard another word.

I have legitimate bona fides. I worked as a circulation manager for a fairly large metro paper while going to college, so I've heard all the excuses, and caught all the flack from irate customers.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Now we have nothing to line our birdcage floors with! (Does anyone still have caged birds?)

JP1856

I've been a newspaper junkie since high school, and that resulted in two journalism degrees. Now retired, I read (or at least scan) three and sometimes four papers daily on either my computer or smart phone. No problem with any of them. I do miss the actual paper though, both for the "feel" of it and for something to stuff in packages for mailing.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

We need to enlist a corp of neighborhood paper “boys and/or girls”😊

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

home brewer wrote:

received this today from the wall street Journal. a couple of years ago the local papers stop delivering.
"Due to logistical constraints, we will no longer be able to provide print delivery in your ZIP code. For this reason, you will be updated to a digital-only subscription starting April 1, 2024. "

What good is the digital. Oh well, half the articles were never proofread with paragraph long sentences and they were getting more left of center.

But how do people with birds line the bottom of their cages with a digital newspaper?

Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA

Sounds like a good idea you have. However the economics of the situation have changed. I had a paper route when I was a kid. This was back in the mid 40's when almost every house on my route subscribed to The Seattle Times. Not so today. Very few subscribe today . . . probably mostly because of the high cost of delivered newspapers. Also I think it is too bad that kids no longer get the newspaper routes. Nowadays paper routes are delivered mostly by men (and sometimes women) in their cars and pickup trucks. Some people do not realize it . . . but times are tough in this income bracket. I went on to become a printer at the same newspaper that I delivered in Seattle and stayed there for 47 years before retiring at 65 years old. The last 20 years of working I was doing typesetting display ads on a computer. Today my old job does not exist. The type is now set in Japan and sent electronically to Seattle by wire. I now read the Manchester Guardian usually on my cell phone. I think it is the best newspaper I ever read.

Red6

Need paper for starting fires, lining bird cages, or other mundane uses. One solution is to sign up for all the free info, newsletters, ads, and other junk mail you can find. The mailman will happily deliver it to you directly each day.

Also, grocery stores always seem to have local free newspapers at their entrances, along with free ad magazines. Pick up a stack on the way out. They also have small newsprint ads for their specials on the way in. Most of these will find their way into the trash since they are usually date sensitive.

Tdearing Loc: Rockport, TX

I gave up on the WSJ not long after the Amazon magnate purchased the company, and the Financial Times is not available here. I suppose I now get my (often mis) information from various on line sources. It's a new world.

AlanW Loc: Upstate NY

Tdearing wrote:

I gave up on the WSJ not long after the Amazon magnate purchased the company, and the Financial Times is not available here. I suppose I now get my (often mis) information from various on line sources. It's a new world.

Speaking of misinformation...I believe Bezos owns the Washington Post and Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal which he purchased in 2007 :)

Alan