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Blondie59 · ‎01-04-2019

First, I admit I am old, haha, but I was curious if anyone gets a hard copy of a daily newspaper delivered anymore? We do. DH enjoys sitting at the breakfast table, reading the newspaper. I understand by the time we get it, the news is stale, so we also read newspapers on line, along with looking at news outlets.

Growing up, my Dad worked as a printer at the NY Times. One of my brothers had a paper route after school delivering Newsday. My sister used to buy the trashy NY Post for her subway ride each day, which my mom did not approve of, lol...So we had at least three in the house everyday.

A newspaper today is so expensive, and sometimes the guy misses our house. So the question is, did you get newspapers delivered back in the day, and do you continue to receive them today?

kitcat51 · ‎09-15-2016

Had the paper delivered until 1980, then we just bought the Sunday edition & that stopped in 2009...I don't watch the tv news either, I get my information from several news sources on YouTube.

They CallMe MRWILKES · ‎06-29-2016

I would pick up The New York Times everyday for years and read it on the subway, and especially looked forward to the Sunday edition. It was enormous.

I remember frequently seeing an older, well dressed gentleman who would take out a pair of gloves from his briefcase and put them on to read The Times. Those are times gone by.

But I haven't touched a physical newspaper in about 25 years.

There are too many alternatives for news consumption.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

@Blondie59 wrote:
First, I admit I am old, haha, but I was curious if anyone gets a hard copy of a daily newspaper delivered anymore? We do. DH enjoys sitting at the breakfast table, reading the newspaper. I understand by the time we get it, the news is stale, so we also read newspapers on line, along with looking at news outlets.

Growing up, my Dad worked as a printer at the NY Times. One of my brothers had a paper route after school delivering Newsday. My sister used to buy the trashy NY Post for her subway ride each day, which my mom did not approve of, lol...So we had at least three in the house everyday.

A newspaper today is so expensive, and sometimes the guy misses our house. So the question is, did you get newspapers delivered back in the day, and do you continue to receive them today?

I have a subscription at $4.00 a month for the "New York Times" on line. My grandson was featured in it when during Covid he attended a friend's Bar Mitzvah. I also like participating in the comments. Money well spent.

Goldengate8361 · ‎01-27-2014

Yes! I receive a hard copy of the Wall Street Journal every day. It's an indulgence.

Iwantcoffee · ‎03-11-2010

I don't get a hard copy of a newspaper delivered, Blondie59.

My parents subscribed to the local newspaper, so reading a newspaper was part of my childhood.

threecees · ‎09-22-2017

I used to love reading our local newspaper.

Stopped being a subscriber probably two years ago.

The prices kept going up and the paper was getting thinner, less local stories,

coupons stopped, no longer worth it.

The last year or more we kept getting skipped pretty often and I would be calling

and leaving messages and promised they would extend my subscription and it

was just broken promises.

Get most of my news through local news updates through Facebook. Happier

this way and less waste.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

Mom had a subscription to the local paper for probably 30 years; she read it in the morning, my brother read it in the evening, and I got caught up about once a week.

In the early stages of dementia, going to the paper box was a vital part of Moms morning routine. When my brother started noticing the newspaper was untouched in the evenings, we realized she had lost her ability to read, so the subscription was cancelled. Right after we cancelled, the local paper reduced printing a paper to 3 days a week and Sundays. There are no paper boxes for delivery at any of the houses on this road, and you can no longer find the public paper boxes that took coins around this area of WV.

ellaphant · ‎12-13-2010

I get two papers a day on line.

Jo1313 · ‎02-02-2021

Up here in the "woods" the daily paper is $1.25 weekdays.. about 8 pages...and you have to buy it in the store...I'm not paying to find out who's cow wandered away or who's chicken layed a "double yoker"...or who died and can't be buried until May because the ground is too frozen!..LOL

I do read NYC papers online with my morning coffee.