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newspaper cost

catter70 — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 11:14:49 GMT

I just got my local Sunday paper delivered and see the cost has gone up to $6.00. Wholly cow. My subscription is up in a couple weeks so I guess I won't be renewing. I get daily delivery and have for many years. Last year it was almost $400.00 for the year so I didn't renew and then they called and offered at the rate I was still on so I renewed. I sure will miss it, as online isn't the same.

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ninjawife — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 11:34:26 GMT

6.00 just for the Sunday paper- Holy Cow!

I haven't subscribed to the local newspaper for years but you're right it is not the same on-line.

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StylishLady — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 11:55:34 GMT

We continue to get the local newspaper delivered. The on-line comes with our subscription. We like it for local news and the daily puzzles. It is getting expensive, but still within our budget.

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ceekay — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:00:11 GMT

@catter70 - the annual cost for our paper is over $600. My husband reads the sports page and the comics. The rest just sits there and collects dust. We switched to Sunday only a few years ago. It includes access to the online version. So, he reads the paper online Monday-Saturday and has a paper newspaper on Sundays. He says the box scores are a pain online but other than that no complaints. It is about $120/year for Sunday only.

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KCDiva — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:10:18 GMT

I used to love reading the Sunday paper while drinking my coffee. I stopped getting the newspaper years ago. It got too expensive. I never read it online. It's not the same. I enjoyed our local newspaper for the small town I live in. It went up too much also. I miss newspapers.

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drizzellla — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:27:14 GMT

Interesting, you mentioning newspapers. I just came in from looking for our paper. No paper, yet. It has become a guessing game every day. Whether the paper is delivered or not. The price for the Sunday paper is $4.95. The daily paper is $2.95. I guess we are getting a bargin. If we get the paper.

Since we got married (40+ years) we always had 2 newspapers delivered. Last year my husband decided to only go with one paper. He stopped the local newspaper.

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CelticCrafter — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:43:29 GMT

Our local Sunday is $3.

We only but it for the coupon inserts and pick it up at Dollar Tree. Even then sometimes it's not worth the $1.

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PINKdogWOOD — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:44:08 GMT

@catter70 Just adked DH since he's reading our's right now - $5.00 for the Sunday paper. Our Columbus Dispatch (OH) used to be printed right in the downtown facility since I don't even know when - the 1920s maybe. A year or so ago the owners decided to give it away to some printing facil in INDIANA. So the reporters have to get their pieces to IN literally 1/2 day or maybe sooner just to get the news into print. This makes the news in the paper 2-3 old, print it, DRIVE it back to Columbus, paper boys, girls, men & women who deliver it to the residents who still choose to read to printed word.

Is that the most ridiculous thing you've ever read??????

In any event, yeah they HAD to raise the price even though their printed word is days old. Looking for the lottery numbers to see if we're billion dollar winners? I pull it up online. Read box scores to ANY sporting event? Reading them online so DH knows if THE Ohio State Buckeyes won yesterday. Did the Cloeveland Indians win last night honey? Can you check the score online? Sure can, oh and did y ou want to know if they won the night prior to last night? Sure it too is online.

Totally ridiculous but he still pays for the paper to be tossed at our door around 6AM every morning.

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jlkz — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:46:43 GMT

We have been getting the Monday-Friday delivered paper which comes with online access. It works well when we snowbird ( suspend the delivery but keep the access ). The cost is approx. $400 annually.

What I noticed most this last year: the paper has shrunk! The width is greatly reduced which would have been wonderful when I used to ride the train into town. There are so few pages and the ads take up much of the space.

DH has commented that a lot of the " contents " are from other papers !

The " Fourth Estate " is in deep trouble !

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Lisa Y — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:47:45 GMT

@catter70 I went to my local deli this AM to get my lottery ticket and Sun. paper. Like you, I was shocked when I saw it was $6.00! Yes, it had more fillers/advertisements, but $6.00 is highway robbery. I put it back and got the cheaper local Sun. paper. Sheesh!

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PINKdogWOOD — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:47:46 GMT

@ceekay Wow - only $600? DH now pays $900 to $1000 annually to read two to three day old news. Yes it's still in his budget because he loves to read the paper every morning Monday through Sunday. As I said in an earlier post here in this forum, it's not even printed here in the capitol city anymore. Ohio news printed now in Indiana.

Totally stupid for $1000 a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Group 5 minus 1 — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:48:07 GMT

A few years ago USA Today raised their cost. We stopped buying. Never buy the local papers.

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ceekay — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:57:33 GMT

@PINKdogWOOD - I am right there with you! That is crazy.

My mom gets the daily paper (which is how I know the cost). She has macular degeneration and cannot really see to read it. Then she complains about the stacks of newspapers all over her den. Then she insists she needs to keep some in case there is a flood (she lives in a 2nd floor apartment but the basement in the family home used to flood regularly). I mentioned she sure pays a lot for something she really does not use/need. Her response is "I have always had a daily paper". So, it makes her happy and she can afford it and I just stack up the papers and put them out for pickup when I am there and leave her a small stack and try not to think of the trees used to give her a daily paper! :-)

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Eileen in Virginia — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:57:44 GMT

After subscribing to the Washington Post for over 40 years, we cancelled our subscription a couple of years ago for a variety of reasons, one of which was the annual cost going up to $600 per year. DH just had to have the Sports section so, when they called us about our cancellation, he agreed to Sunday delivery with daily online access. The cost is $72 per year. What we've heard through our local Next Door is that they'll always negotiate a much lower rate if you cancel your subscription.

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Eileen in Virginia — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:08:14 GMT

@ceekay wrote:
@PINKdogWOOD - I am right there with you! That is crazy.

My mom gets the daily paper (which is how I know the cost). She has macular degeneration and cannot really see to read it. Then she complains about the stacks of newspapers all over her den. Then she insists she needs to keep some in case there is a flood (she lives in a 2nd floor apartment but the basement in the family home used to flood regularly). I mentioned she sure pays a lot for something she really does not use/need. Her response is "I have always had a daily paper". So, it makes her happy and she can afford it and I just stack up the papers and put them out for pickup when I am there and leave her a small stack and try not to think of the trees used to give her a daily paper! :-)

@ceekay My 95 year old Aunt was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. Not only did the papers stack up unread, but we'd find important mail (like her handicapped parking hang tag and some utility bills) in between the unread papers. She switched to the same type of subscription we have, but still couldn't see well enough to read the paper. Last week DH and DS convinced her to get an iPad by showing her how she could access the paper online and expand the font size to one that would enable her to read comfortably. We received it last night and DH is going to set it up for her tomorrow. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!

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I am still oxox — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:21:29 GMT

We only get the paper on line for $1 a week, the delivery people would never open the door and toss the paper up the steps. There were mornings when the paper would get drenched from the sprinkler

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CAcableGirl2 — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:23:06 GMT

Wow! I used to get the LA Times for about 20 years and they would always have some sort of bargain promotion and I think the most I ever paid was $75 for the entire year for 7 day a week delivery.

I stopped a while ago since the papers didn't get read each day, and after not having it for a couple of years, they send me an online offer of $19.95 for delivery of the paper on Sat and Sun AND digital access for 7 days a week for the entire year - all for $19.95. I think I'm about 6 months into that promo.

I think once the year promo is over, I'll stick with the digitial access only, if the price is less then $20.

Higher then that, and I can get my news from the internet or television.

Our local paper is about $400/year, and I stopped getting that many, many years ago, and don't even miss it since it kept getting smaller and smaller and shrinking in size.

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itsmagic — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:38:35 GMT

We subscribed to our local paper for at least 30 years but cancelled it a couple years ago. The price kept going up and the paper kept getting thinner (some days only 8 pages). We miss it but just couldn’t justify the cost of $600 a year. They do keep sending me e-mails to try to entice us to subscribe again but only a discount for the price of the first three months then it goes back up in price. We don’t like reading it online so that option is out for us. So we’ve adjusted to no daily newspaper.

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happycat — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:49:16 GMT

We stopped getting ours a few years back. It just got to they were copying national stories more often than local ones. No point in paying to read what you see on the news.

I do miss the paper being full of local news like it was several years ago.

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Nuttmeg — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:57:09 GMT

@catter70

I have been reading my local paper online. You should contact the company and ask for a promotion.