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Iggo

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29. Everyone wants their news delivered.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sun Oct 22, 2017, 09:02 PM

Oct 2017

Some want it delivered the old fashioned way: a rolled up stack of paper tossed onto their driveway.

Some want it delivered via a series of tubes.

Nobody actually wants to go out and get their news, though.

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If you want your newspaper delivered, you're officially old. [View all] Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 OP

Guess I'm old then. Solly Mack Oct 2017 #1

We've been getting our paper delivered for many, many years, and we like it that way! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2017 #2

Yes, and...? The Blue Flower Oct 2017 #3

I had a Kindle and gave it away. Not near as satisfying as reading an actual book and justhanginon Oct 2017 #28

A few times in the last couple of years, I've needed newspaper ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #4

They mentioned something about coupons. Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 #7

meanwhile someone keeps littering my driveway with a "free" newspaper i don't want. unblock Oct 2017 #5

I used to get a free local newspaper, too. subterranean Oct 2017 #36

The local newspaper has a free rag that they throw out to every driveway csziggy Oct 2017 #38

On line, IMO, is more earth friendly. Kaleva Oct 2017 #6

Let 'em wean away DFW Oct 2017 #8

I live in Florida, and I'm not sure it is a profitable venture here. Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 #11

I delivered papers in 1957.. Permanut Oct 2017 #9

I must be 20+ years younger and was in Arkansas. GulfCoast66 Oct 2017 #23

I well remember the satisfying "thunk" when you heard the paper justhanginon Oct 2017 #31

I sold Grit at that time for 15 cents. They advertised to us carriers that Grit Jim Beard Oct 2017 #24

I Did It More Like 69 and 70 ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #48

Quite old here. I get it digitally and physically. I can read what I want much faster Hoyt Oct 2017 #10

4 AM on every day except Sunday and it's at 5 madokie Oct 2017 #12

We have 3 papers delivered, and numerous magazines. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #13

If You Are Really Old You Remember When The Milkman Used to Deliver Stallion Oct 2017 #14

San Diego in the late 1970s left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #16

Yep! And the bread man, the farm-fresh egg man, and the potato chip man. WinkyDink Oct 2017 #17

The Juice Man, the Cleaners, the Fulller Brush man and the Realsilk man. rzemanfl Oct 2017 #19

Mais oui, mon ami! And did I mention the Encyclopaedia Britannica WinkyDink Oct 2017 #35

We had an old World Book acquired from someplace, sans yearbooks. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2017 #46

I drove to a nearby farm to get fresh milk. Kaleva Oct 2017 #18

We had milk delivery in WI - 1970s LeftInTX Oct 2017 #22

Remember it well. Guess the Pizza man has taken his place. Jim Beard Oct 2017 #25

Yep. Early forties, Quality Dairy and in the summer we used to beg for a piece justhanginon Oct 2017 #32

in England, I remember milk brought via Clydesdale Skittles Oct 2017 #39

As My Dad Was A Milkman, Yes! ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #49

The Albuquerque Journal is a right wing rag left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #15

Digital only, please. It's an easy way to to limit demand for wood pulp. NT Adrahil Oct 2017 #20

Our local paper is Republican leaning Rorey Oct 2017 #21

Heck, lapucelle Oct 2017 #27

I enjoyed having my milk delivered Rorey Oct 2017 #40

I have been hearing about some places refusing to take cash. They can shove it. Jim Beard Oct 2017 #26

Cash is king, babe. Iggo Oct 2017 #30

Everyone wants their news delivered. Iggo Oct 2017 #29

You have to have you Sunday NYTs delivered. Laffy Kat Oct 2017 #33

I don't see how they can do away with the Sunday paper. Baitball Blogger Oct 2017 #34

There is just something about turning those pages between sips of coffee. Laffy Kat Oct 2017 #37

Yes, an orderly reading of the Times is necessary. planetc Oct 2017 #45

My fave is the Book Review section. Laffy Kat Oct 2017 #50

Well, now you're talking th Sunday paper, which is sorted differently, but planetc Oct 2017 #54

Im 61 and officially old now kimbutgar Oct 2017 #41

Newspapers are still a thing? Who knew? Initech Oct 2017 #42

Why, yes,I do ashling Oct 2017 #43

Nah. Not old. cwydro Oct 2017 #44

I may be old now, but Tracer Oct 2017 #47

Get out the old Winky Dink to do the puzzles. rickford66 Oct 2017 #51

Switched to Sunday only delivery a few years back, cancelled even that this year. Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #52

I'm in my 30s and I still like getting my paper physically delivered. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #53