news papers cant get anyone to deliver (Page 2): Two years ago our local paper went from daily print delivery plus digital to a daily digital and a three times per week printed but not...

AlanW Loc: Upstate NY

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.

Two years ago our local paper went from daily print delivery plus digital to a daily digital and a three times per week printed but not delivered. Needless to say we cancelled after 40 years as a loyal customer. I find I don't miss it. What I do miss though are magazines that have gone 100% digital, especially photography ones. I much prefer magazines in hard copy rather than online.

Alan

Canisdirus

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.

You started out okay...

Digital is the way to go anyways...I switched over 10+ years ago.

Burtzy Loc: Bronx N.Y. & Simi Valley, CA

Bridges wrote:

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

Fairly simple solution...Just lay your flat screen monitor face up on the bottom of your bird cage. Two problems solved: You can read the news through the cage bars and the birds can comment on the articles in their own special way.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

pmorin wrote:

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.

My beef is that with the online edition of my local paper, the screen keeps popping up these video ad thumbnails that obscure what I’m reading, and clicking the close button on them doesn’t necessarily make them disappear immediately.

Stan

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

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 get you. We still get the WSJ (paper edition) delivered but service is horrible. The standard is now that it only has to be on the driveway (anywhere on the driveway) and is never delivered to the front door. In the winter after a snowfall it is always a guess who will find the paper: the snow removal crew or me. If the former then it is mute as it will be unreadable.

Also the place it in a flimsy plastic bag. More often than not it there is any moisture on the driveway, the paper is soaked even inside it's "Protective" plastic bag. Go figure.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

The way things are going, they will stop making "rolling papers".

Flash Gordon

I only get the Epoch Times delivered weekly to my mailbox. The rest of the other “News” information I receive is via the internet. The internet news usually puts me in a bad mood. I think I may retire to my cave.

LovetheMts Loc: Adirondacks

AlanW wrote:

Two years ago our local paper went from daily print delivery plus digital to a daily digital and a three times per week printed but not delivered. Needless to say we cancelled after 40 years as a loyal customer. I find I don't miss it. What I do miss though are magazines that have gone 100% digital, especially photography ones. I much prefer magazines in hard copy rather than online.

Alan

Same thing happened to our local newspaper. I stuck with the digital only version for a while, but they started charging $20/month for it - that and the seriously bad decline in content made me finally quit altogether.
I literally grew up with this newspaper as my 3 brothers and I had the delivery route in our neighborhood for probably a decade- passed from oldest to youngest.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, 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.

The "logistical constraints" for the local newspaper in my area was apparently a cost savings. About five years ago the paper decided to discontinue carriers and started delivery via the Postal Service. The carriers were given one day notice that they were "terminated" and the customers were not notified. The option was online subscriptions, which many chose. Believe it or not, the change occurred on, of all days, April 1. It was not a joke! My wife and I decided it was not worth the cost, $25 per month for actual newspaper mail delivery (middle of the day for us, not morning) and online availability. There are many fewer print advertising so the paper company receives less income for advertisement. Soon there will be no printed news anywhere.

Wrinkles Loc: NC

srt101fan wrote:

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

Know what you mean. We had Sears and Roebuck catalogs for that. :)

Harry02 Loc: Gardena, CA

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.

Fuel prices went up.
Insurance prices went up.
Vehicle prices went up.
Private Equity stepped in, delivery costs soared.
Just like ambulance services- we're screwed.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

StanMac wrote:

My beef is that with the online edition of my local paper, the screen keeps popping up these video ad thumbnails that obscure what I’m reading, and clicking the close button on them doesn’t necessarily make them disappear immediately.

Stan

You might check to see if there’s a download option in the online versions menu. I use that often as it comes up as a PDF without any ads and can easily be accessed even when there’s no WiFi available.

sjb3

joehel2 wrote:

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

I suspect that might be a hard sell---like the idea of kids going door-to-door offering to cut your grass or shovel snow off the driveway for a couple of dollars as was fairly common years (and years!) ago; so many today reach adulthood and expect to enter the labor force without having developed a strong work ethic along the way. For some, the idea of doing something involving actual labor is abhorrent; getting the most with the least effort, and being entertained while doing it, is paramount.