[mgarblik]

Yes, I am one of the old codgers who really enjoyed getting a hard copy newspaper every day delivered to my house. I finally gave up today and cancelled. Our paper, The Dayton Daily News was celebrating their 125th Anniversary this year. I like having a print paper to read with my breakfast every day. That;s all the news I need. I don't need my laptop on the kitchen table getting crumbs in the keys and coffee spilled on it every morning. I also don't need a phone in my hand every minute of every day. Finally, I used the old newspapers for all kinds of things around the house. I have been a subscriber for 45 years. Home delivery here has been a problem for at least the last 10 years. We probably average 3 missed deliveries a month. You call a number in India and they give you a credit. Over the last 3-4 years, the cost has skyrocketed and now it is about $400.00 a year for the paper. Last week we get a letter saying they will now print the paper 6 days a week instead of 7 and keep the "same low price". Well after a missed delivery today, they finally broke me. I cancelled and gave up. Anyone still read a hard copy paper?

[RFCOLEMAN]

I do, for now.

[77 TRASHCAN]

I get our local paper, in the mail twice a week. It's very small. My town of around 15,000 will be absorbed into to Oklahoma City metro, soon.
I work for a school, they provide the paper, at no cost. I used to subscribe to it...

[Radman]

I used to get the paper delivered, Times Reporter out of New Philadelphia, Ohio. I am on a rural motor route. Delivery for the last year was terrible. I never knew which day I was actually going to get a paper, or the last several days papers with todays paper missing. Stopped at the paper's building. It was closed and a for sale sign was on the building. Called the number for circulation, found out that the Canton paper had purchased my local paper. They wouldn't even recognize me as a customer. Done! Canceled the paper.

[Stuart]

I still subscribe to the local paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but switched to electronic delivery several years ago. I kind of miss having the actual physical copy in front of me when I eat breakfast, but I don't have to worry about it being delivered late or not at all (or having the delivery guy toss it in a rain puddle, which seemed to happen all too often) and I can read it anywhere on my laptop or phone. It's still seven days a week and the cost per year is $129.

I also still subscribe to my home town (population 3,000) weekly newspaper; partly to keep up on old friends and partly to support them. They're one of the oldest if not the oldest newspapers still in business in the state, and operate on a shoestring budget, so I want to help them stay in business.

[Scarebird]

Albuquerque Journal here. Not really a good paper but local coverage (though now printed in Santa Fe). Delivery is sketchy, miss on average once a week - runs $22/month. Such a deal for the delivery drivers; they get to pay the gas, insurance and their own car to make essentially minimum wage.

[poncho-mike]

I subscribed to the Raleigh News and Observer for almost thirty years, finally dropping the subscription last year. I wanted to drop the subscription much earlier, but my wife wanted to keep it.

The paper kept getting thinner and thinner. Delivery became very erratic, and sometimes the paper delivered was not current. In the past, the paper was put in a plastic bag on rainy days, but that stopped. It's hard to read a soggy paper. My wife called and complained frequently, with the paper telling her they were going to credit the account for missing papers . One day I asked her if she ever verified she had been getting credited for the missing papers. She checked her records and found out the paper had not credited her. She finally agreed to drop the subscription.

[Bill S]

I still get the Hartford Courant for over 30 years. First they closed their on site printer and outsourced it. During the pandemic, they closed they office so they all work remote. There is no real investigative reporter any more. Subscription cost has gone up significantly. Customer service in now in India. Much is recycled news from AP or other sources. I keep getting it until the cost get too much, or they cancel printed papers

[mgarblik]

I honestly thought I might have been the last hold out. The Dayton Daily News has been pushing the digital format hard for years, but at $18.99 a month. That's $227.88 a year for nothing? Our local TV stations, WHIO, and WDTN have all the same news on their web sites for free. I like the columns in the paper and the balanced editorials and the in depth investigations they do sometimes. I would probably value that at like $4.99 a month. $60-75 a year maybe. For $227.88 a year, I can buy allot of print car magazine subscriptions s to keep me busy at breakfast time. My wife just gets so pissed every time they miss a delivery, or throw it in the front yard to be ruined by rain, I am sure she is going to blow a head gasket! When she is barking at the customer care person in India, I can't even be in the same room.

[ftwmlp]

Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Dallas Morning News both. Fort Worth paper is just a shell of its former self (no longer owned locally), but my Dad would not forgive me if I did not take it. Dallas paper is still what I would call a "news" paper.

[michaelfind]

Our local paper closed a few years ago when the owner/operator died. I just read yesterday that someone has purchased the business and will begin printing the paper again. This is very small-time, printed weekly or twice weekly, but was a good community builder when it was operating. I'm waiting to see how the new paper compares to the old one.

[Elarson]

One of my jobs growing up was delivering a local, twice-a-week paper; the Kettering-Oakwood Times. I walked the route and delivered to the door....not out in the puddles. I'm convinced that the paper route did two lasting things for me:

1) helped me develop a good work ethic
2) made me despise cold, wet socks.

Eric

[TAKerry]

No. Gave it up about 5 or 6 yrs ago. Our local paper was one day a week. Then they went Monday and Wed. Then they went to 5 days a week. This was a progression that took 30 years. After about 10 yrs of 5 days they went back to M,W,F. They had a large printing operation locally and were the parent co. of many small local papers. They stopped printing locally, offices were eventually closed, now it is a small fold out similar in size to a tabloid magazine. Comes out on Thursdays. Wife gets it at work and brings it home if there is something interesting. I think most people get the news instantly over the computer or fb today.

[mgarblik]

Well it's been 1 full week since I ended my 50+ year subscription to The Dayton Daily News. Still in withdrawal! I miss having the one day old news with my coffee in the morning. Now I am even less aware of what's going on in the world. That may not be all bad.

[71GP76TA]

Only time I buy a newspaper is when I'm moving and need to wrap dishes ..etc....

[Tom Vaught]

I currently get the Detroit Free Press and the Macomb Daily newspapers.

I lost a lot of papers due to poor rain packaging and non-delivery.
Lots of phone calls by me.

So I will be on the Computer for Local and National news. Which I also read.
No BIG Hardship.

But I do like to solve the Puzzles every day from the Papers.

Tom V.

[GT182]

Nope, not here in Delaware. No news is good news. I do look at one when I'm at the boss's house just to make sure my name in in the Obituaries.

[Sirrotica]

I used to read it at the local Burger King at lunch time, but I quit going to the store because of the manager that replaced the one I knew well, just didn't have a personality. After I switched to a Wendy's for lunch, they don't offer the paper in their lobby, so I no longer read it. They do have 2 TV screens in the lobby, but usually have mindless rubbish playing on them.

We had it come to the house for awhile, but it was just a hassle to keep arguing about no delivery a couple times a month. Also it was so downsized that there wasn't much in it.

I get news now from TV, or radio, and online. At least it's current, and I can choose who's telling the story (lying to me), and not a day old. Seems like you have to be your own fact checker to find out what really happened at a news event, and check multiple sources to get what really transpires. The newspaper is one dimensional, and usually biased.

[HoovDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

I currently get the Detroit Free Press and the Macomb Daily newspapers.

I lost a lot of papers due to poor rain packaging and non-delivery.
Lots of phone calls by me.

So I will be on the Computer for Local and National news. Which I also read.
No BIG Hardship.

I was getting both of those as well. but the Macomb Daily delivery service was getting real bad about a year ago, so I cancelled that one. Still get the Free Press. I installed a newspaper slot on the mailbox, now they don't throw the paper on the driveway or into the cars. The wife likes to have the real paper, although I'm the one that has to go out to the mail box to get it. I'm okay with electronic versions.

[Lightfoot]

We still get it here but my brother complains about the cost. Keeps saying he wants to cancel it. I say go right ahead. Objective journalism is dead.
They stopped printing a Monday edition a few years back.

I delivered the South Bend Tribune for a couple years when I was a teenager. It financed my Beatles LP collection.

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught;

But I do like to solve the Puzzles every day from the Papers.
Tom V.

That's essentually the only thing I look forward to in our paper. Love the Jumble and the Crypto-Quip.