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Post by bc2ca on Mar 16, 2022 22:22:12 GMT
I subscribed to the local newspapers for years and really miss them.
When the North County Times went under (or was bundled into the SD Union Tribune?), we tried the UT for a while but it just highlighted how much I'd love the local stories and how little they were covered in the bigger paper.
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Post by compeateropeator on Mar 17, 2022 0:21:01 GMT
Kind of. I get the Sunday edition of our city paper delivered. I also have a mail subscription to my hometown paper, which is two editions a week.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 17, 2022 1:40:54 GMT
I used to for decades. When I noticed that more of them were going straight into the recycle bag without me having time to read them, I cut back from 7 days to four, then finally to just Sundays. When the Sunday only subscription price went up over $150 a year, I pulled the plug and cancelled. They lured me back with a cheap price for 6 more months, but then the price went back up so I cancelled again.
They kept on delivering it though. I called again to reiterate that I wanted to cancel and they said I still owed money on my subscription, and I said, “You mean for the subscription I cancelled a month ago but your carrier kept delivering to my house? I don’t think so!” I didn’t pay what they said I owed them because I had documented that I had cancelled, but they kept on delivering Sunday papers to my driveway for MONTHS. I emailed them another one or two times after that but it kept on coming, and I was NOT going to pay for something I no longer wanted and wasn’t even reading. They would go straight into the recycling. The paper was getting so thin that it didn’t have anything in it other than mostly store ads and coupon flyers and I can look those up online.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Mar 17, 2022 2:12:38 GMT
Yes. We get Wednesday and Sunday and have access to digital 24/7.
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howjudiofyou
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Location: Niagara Falls, NY
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Post by howjudiofyou on Mar 17, 2022 2:26:48 GMT
We live with my mother-in-law and she still gets the local paper. During the shut down, delivery became so hit or miss, they switched from paper carriers to mailing the paper out. They also cancelled the Sunday and Monday editions. It's not worth it, but she enjoys reading it.
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Post by chlerbie on Mar 17, 2022 2:35:05 GMT
We have a small weekly newspaper that we subscribe to. I enjoy the local stories and get a kick out of how they do the police log.
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Post by teddyw on Mar 17, 2022 2:48:30 GMT
We were just getting the weekend one but they had a big promotion recently so we are getting it daily.
They just sent out a notice that they are dropping saturdays.
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Post by brynn on Mar 17, 2022 2:55:47 GMT
Growing up, my parents subscribed to the daily newspaper of the large city near us and the weekly newspaper from a small town in the other direction. Since the local one switched from delivery people to using the USPS and eliminating the Sunday edition, I switched to digital only on that one. I still subscribe to the weekly. Often now, the weekly does better reporting than the daily.
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Post by marie on Mar 17, 2022 3:29:26 GMT
We subscribe to the digital version of our local paper. I receive it in my email at 6 am. Delivery of the paper in my area is a headache. So many missed issues.
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kimi
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Post by kimi on Mar 17, 2022 4:32:27 GMT
I used to subscribe to a daily newspaper. But I would have delivery problems (missed paper, day old paper, receive a completely different paper) and it was impossible to get in touch with live CS to get credit. Automated CS would give me an option to get credit or re-delivery, but neither would actually happen. And the subscription price would rise and it wasn't worth the cost or hassle.
So I switched to Sunday Paper only, but still had delivery problems and problems with CS. And that got even more expensive because the newspaper came up with creative ways to add additional charges to subscriptions, such as extra charges for so-called 'special editions' that I never received. After all these extra charges, my 13 week subscription only covered 8 weeks! So I cancelled completely. This was the San Francisco Chronicle.
Now I pickup the Sunday paper for $3.00 at the grocery store. (I just can't get into reading the digital format. I need real paper.)
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gorgeouskid
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Post by gorgeouskid on Mar 17, 2022 8:56:54 GMT
No. I haven't for at least 25 years. I was tired of the stack of papers. I come from a newspaper family- my grandparents owned our local weekly for decades (my grandparents, my mom, and my aunt [me too, but not really as an employee- I stamped outgoing papers and wrote articles when I was in high school] all worked for The Paper- this is what we called it).
That being said, I have 4 online news subscriptions (NYT, WP, WSJ, and LATimes) and can find time to access their news. I check in with NYT first.
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joelise
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Post by joelise on Mar 17, 2022 9:08:54 GMT
I’ve never had a daily newspaper. I read the news online.
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Post by mollycoddle on Mar 17, 2022 9:25:47 GMT
No, I subscribe to 2 papers, both online.
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 17, 2022 11:20:31 GMT
I get the Saturday and Sunday paper. I enjoy reading it on Sunday. It is getting expensive.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Mar 17, 2022 12:23:50 GMT
Otherwise, my other subscriptions are all digital. I may cancel this now too, its $90 for a year and only comes out on Fridays. They also combined the three counties around me, so its not really local so much anymore.... |
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