Sometimes I wonder about our small town. Uncus reports:
The Washington Post is selling its local distribution rights to the Daily Progress, leaving dozens of newspaper carriers out of a job and serving as another signal of dailies in a downturn.“It’s a cost-cutting measure,” says Charles Leathers, who’s distributed the Post since 1992, as did his father, who started distributing the Post in 1967.
He employs about a dozen people to stuff inserts and deliver the Post seven days a week in southeastern Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and Lake Monticello.
Now, if the Washington PostNew York Times has inserts of the C-Ville Weekly every now and then, does that mean DP and the NYT are now the oligopoly on home delivery?[pic]
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The Post has never had inserts of C-Ville Weekly. And the Progress does not have a monopoly on home delivery. “Central Virginia News Agency” delivers NYT, WSJ, USA Today etc. in this market. C-Ville is delivered in the bag with NYT sometimes.
What happens to home delivery of the Post when the DP goes down? Then we go on-line 100%.
My experience: My NYTimes shows up only occasionally. CVNA unreliable at best.
If you get the Post at home, be sure to remember your former carriers around the holiday tipping season. They worked for 11 months and got the shaft, just for the DP carrier to swoop in and get the fat holiday tip.
\shaft…fat…tip…um, I might not be old enough to read my own post.
….deliver the Post seven days a week in southeastern Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and Lake Monticello.
Who is the person at Lake Monticello that reads The WP? Perhaps it’s just the exact right size for their litter tray or something.
Litter trays are for amateurs.
We’ve had perfectly reliable delivery of the NYTimes on Sundays for many years.
I had to cancel. The paper arrived 5 or 6 days a week. Drove me crazy calling them and complaining and never getting a call back
it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal. like this one DP delivery guy who delivers more than 100 DPs got 14 new WP customers, and 8 of them only have sunday delivery. so it’s negligible. delivering papers is a really shitty deal; you should tip your paper deliverer no matter what, or else he’ll likely starve to death.
It took the DP carriers less than a week to screw up my paper, giving me the Daily Progress when I’m supposed to get the Post. And when I called the Post to tell them about the screw-up, they told me they weren’t going to redeliver to my area. When I called the DP, they didn’t care and told me I had to call the post. Awesome customer service! Well Done, old media!
Gee Stormy you don’t like the DP?
I like the DP all right, I guess. I like the reporters and columnists I know, and I know everyone on this website is a big fan of its webmaster, Mr. Matt Rosenberg.
I just like being able to read my paper on my day off, when I’m not rushed to do anything else and I can catch up on what’s going on in the world. Plus, you try to explain to my wife why she didn’t have all the shopping ads in advance of all of today’s early bird sales.
we didn’t get the dp on thanksgiving morning until noonish. it was great fun to call up the sister in law who has a fancy position at the richmond times (all part of media general) to complain that we hadn’t gotten our paper… doncha just love those family insider jokes???
I’m a Sunday only subscriber, so today was my first experience trying to get a paper delivered. No WaPo. I had signed up for the DP on Sundays for the ads and coupons, and when I called they said that was supposed to start next week. Fine, whatever. But I have been a WP subscriber for over 4 years. When I called, they said they’d get them both out to me. Then they called back and asked if I had received them (no, neither.) I went out and got home around 6 pm. There was a DP on my porch, but no Post. I called again and the DP was closed. Sigh.
newspapers: still not completely dead yet. trying hard but not succeeding. at death.