slo’s MONDAY 8/4 - Newspaper

[slo]

Reading the paper used to be a daily activity for many people. It was delivered to your house and read in the morning if time permitted. Some read it after dinner if their morning didn’t allow time to read the paper. Then there are some who still get “the paper” delivered to their home (maybe their newspaper is better than my areas paper, which isn’t good).

Many know that I manage a chiropractor’s office, and the doctor I work for gets the paper for our patients to read (we don’t have a TV in our waiting area - we (especially me) don’t want to listen to it all day, and I refuse to believe that people can’t sit for a few minutes without looking at a TV). Our patients are always excited to read it, because they don’t get it delivered to their home anymore. It’s gotten to expensive and the content is way less - especially on Sundays. This is what inspired this poll. So, let’s find out about all of you. Give us your answer that’s fit to print today……

Currently….do you get a newspaper delivered to your home?
If yes….when do you read it?
In no…..do you buy it somewhere, like a gas station?
(multiple choice)




For Me……We canceled our newspaper subscription about 4-5 years ago. We didn’t get it every day, because we only liked to read the Sunday paper (we got it Wednesday, Friday & Sunday). When the Sunday paper no longer had sale papers, the news content dwindled and the cost kept increasing, we canceled and never regretted it. It’s a shame - we loved sitting together on Sunday morning, drinking our coffee and reading the paper. We don’t buy the paper anywhere else. The only time we briefly did was when DD21 was in HS and was in the paper a lot for her softball achievements. Currently, I don’t read the newspaper anywhere - it doesn’t interest me anymore.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I was a faithful paper reader for probably 30 years I received it every day when I moved to my new house they didn’t have a delivery person to deliver papers to my new house so I couldn’t get the newspaper I had a withdrawals for quite some time and really missed the newspaper But I’ve gotten over it and I agree it’s not the same as it used to be And the cost has gotten insane But there are times I do miss reading the newspaper and getting all the ads but the ads aren’t in there anymore Everything is going online But I do miss the Sundays of sitting there reading the newspaper and I miss right before the holidays getting the newspaper with all the ads in it

We have a local newspaper that comes out every week I do receive that and I do enjoy reading that I read that in the evenings it’s mailed to me it is free I don’t know how they can afford to do it but they’ve been doing it for years So I do enjoy reading it every week

 

[Kitty 34]

We get two different local papers delivered to us every Friday for free. I do read them occasionally.

 

[Meriweather]

No paper delivered for many years and I never buy or read one

 

[LoveDaisy]

I had the newspaper delivered to me until a few years ago. My local newspaper really fell apart during Covid. It is now a few sad pages with no flyers.

The library at my work gets USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Hartford local newspaper. I will occasionally grab one to read over lunch. Our local Hartford newspaper had digital access, one year for $5 so I did buy that and occasionally read an article.

 

[soccerdad72]

We stopped getting the paper delivered many years ago. For a while, we were getting just the Sunday paper, but realized quickly that we were hardly ever reading it, so cancelled that as well.

 

[easyas123]

Our local area has only a weekly, and I usually pick it up. It takes only 5-10 minutes to go thru.

I have been thinking about getting a digital WSJ subscription, but honestly I'd far prefer a physical paper over another thing I have to read on a screen.

 

[fla4fun]

I stopped getting the newspaper delivered when I lost my job during the pandemic and needed to tighten my financial belt. I was only getting the Sunday and holiday papers. Most everything I could get from a newspaper I can get online, so there isn’t much point to it anymore for me.

 

[Wood Nymph]

We still have the newspaper delivered daily. We like doing the puzzles. And it is nice to see news that isn't filtered to your choices like they are on an internet web feed. But it is expensive. Every time they raise the price I call to cancel, and they lower the price. But I see a future where the paper is a thing of the past.

 

[lanejudy]

Our newspapers come in the mail now, which is delivered late afternoon. We get a daily (6 days/week) paper and the local paper is twice a week. I often didn’t read it until evening anyway but DH usually saves it to read at breakfast the next day. None of the news is “breaking” and I’ve usually already heard about it.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

My dad gets the LA Times delivered daily and the NY Times on Sunday.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I get two daily papers, the Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald. Typically I read them in the morning. Also i get one weekly local paper, which is very good with its content.

As above with @Wood Nymph, with the two dailies, when I get my annual bill, I call and have the bill reduced by about 55%. I also have a digital New York Times subscriptions. Had the WSJ delivered until I retired.

 

[Christine]

I no longer get a print version newspaper delivered. It got outrageously expensive, then delivered after I went to work, and by the time I read it, the news was old. I have a digital subscription now--it's free. When it's tops being free or even cheap, I will stop that subscription.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

It's funny but my first semi-real job out of college was marketing for a newspaper. In addition to finding ways to boost subscription sales, I also sold subscriptions. My job would not exist today.

 

[kdonnel]

My wife was really into couponing about 15 years ago, we subscribed to the Sunday paper so we could get all the coupon inserts.

Subscribing got you access to the online version everyday. They had an iPad app that made reading the paper so easy. It was a digital representation of the paper copy of the paper, it was great.

After a couple years she stopped couponing and we dropped the subscription.

I haven't read the paper since.

 

[CynBeth]

We still have the newspaper delivered daily. We like doing the puzzles. And it is nice to see news that isn't filtered to your choices like they are on an internet web feed. But it is expensive. Every time they raise the price I call to cancel, and they lower the price. But I see a future where the paper is a thing of the past.

We get the paper delivered every day. It has gotten smaller and a lot of times is all smudged or it gets wet because of rain and is not double bagged or a missed delivery so it seems I have to call a lot and customer service gets outsourced so it is awful never get a redelivery even if I call in the morning before the cutoff so every time the price goes up I call and tell them all I go through and that I am not paying more than x amount and they lower it to that.

 

[DoryGirl1963]

Loved getting the newspaper delivered to my home every day & reading it every morning, but the reliability of the deliveries became very problematic so I just gave up on it. Really miss it

 

[CGB]

Not anymore. I used to get the Sunday paper for years for coupons and sales flyers. We always read through it, whether it was the sports, lifestyle or the actual news. I do miss it.

I just checked to see how much it would be today to get the Sunday paper. $8.49 a week for the Sunday paper with full digital access. Wow. I also saw that the paper is no longer printed locally... it's trucked in every day from about two hours away.

 

[jimmymc]

I can't remember the last time I read a physical newspaper. Maybe the free student one in college.

 

[ford family]

We've never lived anywhere with a newspaper delivery.

I walk to the paper shop every day to buy one UK national newspaper.
We used to buy two papers but one of them became too expensive in print form so we take that one digitally now.

For many years when we used to winter in Florida we could still buy the physical UK paper but that service was discontinued about ten years ago.

Nowadays we winter in Spain where we can still get the physical UK daily newspaper.

We still much prefer a physical newspaper over the screen version.

ford family