Anyone get a daily "news" paper delivered?

[Rule3]

Been getting the local rag for a long time. Must be force of habit. My parents got the paper along with the WSJ , NGeo mag and some others.

Well they just raised the rate to almost $100 a month!! For the some old stuff!
I just canceled, gonna miss the comics!

 

[DixieRanger]

Comics & obits are what miss most. Looking for the day when all go broke cause of $$$...

 

[whitestang]

The local paper here is small and at the price as yours. It has been 15 years since I got the paper and I do not miss it at all.

 

[lihpster]

My parents got the paper for 35 years. Then the paper stopped everyday printing and went to 4 times a week. Then they stopped delivering altogether.

 

[phulklip]

I still get the paper delivered six days a week at four am which is perfect for me. The cost is $249 per year and comes with a bonus card that gives me 20% off my bill at my favorite restuarants.

 

[Ματθιας]

I get the paper for my mom. She's 93 and while she has vision issues, she does the best she can.
My mom's primary says reading is the best cognitive and memory therapy for older folks.

I have to say that over the last ten years, the paper has gotten smaller, physically and content wise. It's $111.00 for three months, including Sundays. I don't think it's worth the price, but my mom enjoys it and it helps her so it's worth every penny!

 

[pawngal]

One local paper was 6 days a week, then 4 days, then 2 days, same price so dropped it.
Another was 2 days a week for years, now once a week. Never did subscribe to it, occasionally buy a copy if there is an interesting story.
Closest daily is the DesMoines Register, no thank you.

 

[Golddollar]

I get the paper for my mom. She's 93 and while she has vision issues, she does the best she can.
My mom's primary says reading is the best cognitive and memory therapy for older folks.

After I retired I quit getting any newspapers. But a few years ago, my uncle who lived 4 blocks from me got a subscription for me to a local paper as a thanks for the help I was giving him and my aunt after my aunt started having medical issues. It publishes 6 days a week, with Monday being electronic only. And I guess now that I'm getting older I'm probably benefiting from reading it too. And literally on his deathbed, my uncle had the paper company take the remainder of his subscription and tack in on to mine.

 

[WCCPHD]

I don't pay people to bring trash to my house. All the papers around here barely amount to trash.

 

[Onomea]

$100 per month is pretty steep!

 

[SSGRock]

We tool the Local News Paper for 40+ years. A few months ago the paper changed from 6 days a week to 2 days a week. The paper also said price for paper would stay the same for home delivery. No way I am going to pay that much for 2 papers a week.

 

[JayCeeNC]

I can get up-to-the-second news from around the world for free on my phone or computer.
Newspapers make you pay for yesterdays news.
Bad investment.

 

[TJohnD]

We had a locally owned paper that was staffed by local people including a local editor, local reporters, local photographer, local sports reporter, local sales people etc. It was a daily paper. I didn't always agree with the editorials, but it was a good paper. We enjoyed reading it every day.

At some point, the paper was bought out by a national paper. A lot of the local employees, including the editor, left or were let go. Local coverage diminished, and frequency of publication went to twice a week.

About a week after a hurricane passed through our area, still at Cat 1 strength, the front page lead article was on the evils of statues in Tennessee. There were a few paragraphs of hurricane coverage buried a few pages in with no photographs. I decided I would no longer subsidize that enterprise.

We miss have a good local paper and will subscribe again if one becomes available.

 

[Rat458]

Used to get the local paper .
Then the ads started being most of the content.
Then they were taken over and went far to the left.
No thanks.
And you cant even read the online version without a subscription.

 

[Rule3]

I still get the paper delivered six days a week at four am which is perfect for me. The cost is $249 per year and comes with a bonus card that gives me 20% off my bill at my favorite restuarants.

Wow, that's cheap. I would still get it for that price.

 

[Chuck24]

I miss my actual print copy newspaper, but delivery became so un dependable I got dragged into the online version. When I didn't get my paper their response was always " We'll credit your account", and my response was "I don't want a credit, I want my damn paper ".

 

[22hipower]

I had the Dallas Morning News delivered for many years, the WSJ too. Pretty hard leaning left the last few years and I complained about their insistence on calling illegals "undocumented citizens." Told them a couple times that the only redeeming features in their paper were Dilbert and Dear Abby and that if they ever got rid of either I'd be gone. When Dilbert was indeed banished, I was gone. Now I get requests a couple times a month to come back, but won't. WSJ now delivered on line.

I don't know how the daily newspapers expect to survive when they irritate long term customers who can afford to buy their product.

 

[fiasconva]

I took the local morning paper for years until about a year ago. It got way too expensive and the news had gotten about a day behind because of their early deadlines. The delivery had gotten so bad that it was 10 AM or later when I got my paper. That early morning paper with my cup of coffee had been my routine forever. The delivery price had gotten to over $350 per year. I switched to their online version and it costs about $6.00 for 6 months. It's not a very good website but I can live with it at that price.

 

[max]

i get 2, a local and a national. I also get the weekly from home. I started delivering papers almost 70 years ago.

 

[pawngal]

I have online subscriptions to 3 national papers. 2 local radio stations have excellent local news and weather coverage.