If you have a newspaper delivered daily, what time do you receive it, or expect to receive it?
I'm thinking of cancelling my sub to Freep, because in the last few days it has made a decision to deliver after 7am, giving me no time to read it before work. It used to be delivered around 5am, but always before 6:30am. I don't mind later delivery on the weekend, but who expects to read the morning paper after they get home from work.
Did you phone and complain? If not I would try that first and tell them if you don't get it by 6.30 you're going to cancel. I think for the FreeP 6.30 is a reasonable time to expect delivery by - am I correct? They may not know the carrier is delivering it later.
I have complained for a whole week and today, I spoke to a woman who told me I had a late route. That really confused me because I thought she meant it was a later route and that is what I can expect from now on, especially as the Freep has this automated voice message when you call to complain saying your paper deliverly is only late if you don't get it be 7:30am.
Anyway I called again this evening - as a last attempt before I part company with the Freep. The customer service rep said the paper should be delivered by 6:30am weekdays and 7:30 weekends. She said my complaint would be given highest priority.
I'm up at 6 and the Freep is always there. (Incidentally, I get the Post too and it is usually delivered around 11 or 12, which means that anything that happened after the 6 o'clock news won't be in there. Why such an early deadline?)
Seeing that the Free Press hits the streets shortly after midnight, there's no reason why it should be at your door when you wake up in the morning.
Morning papers usually have more than one edition.
I've lived in cities where the morning paper was available at midnight or shortly after. And it was sometimes different than the edition that was delivered to homes if there was late breaking news.
mine arrives around 430am (as i hear him stomp on my front porch), once this week it arrived after 630, but that happens maybe 1 x every 3 months. if it was consistant then i'd cancel, as i leave by 630.
how amazing society has changed...20 yrs ago i delivered the freepress after school, usually around 4 - 5 pm. now i can barely watch the 6 o'clock news as i've read news all day on the 'net. it's a great world we live in!!!
[quote][cite] cancelbot:[/cite]I'm up at 6 and the Freep is always there. (Incidentally, I get the Post too and it is usually delivered around 11 or 12, which means that anything that happened after the 6 o'clock news won't be in there. Why such an early deadline?)
Seeing that the Free Press hits the streets shortly after midnight, there's no reason why it should be at your door when you wake up in the morning.[/quote]
Umm doesn't the Post use the Free Press printers for their run? So it prints the post first.. or something like that?
[quote]Umm doesn't the Post use the Free Press printers for their run? So it prints the post first.. or something like that?[/quote]
It's the Free Press but I think it's the Brandon presses that print it (or is that the Globe and Mail ? - I know one of the "national" papers runs it's western edition from the BSun press room and the BSun is part of the "FP Family of Newspapers"
Has your paper delivery improved? I get the FreeP online for free otherwise I would get the paper version as I prefer reading from paper vs off a computer screen.
When I had a subscription (when it was still worth subscribing to), I would recieve the paper no later than 6 A.M. At work, we usually get it around 4 A.M., and you can usually find it at many stores by that time.
There are so many papers available on-line! I get the free press on-line as 2 of my friends who have a daily delivery do not own a computer, believe-it-or-not, so that looks after local news. We take The National Post, which my wife dislikes, and The Globe and Mail, and then on line we get all sorts of newspapers, one from Australia, The Toronto Star headlines, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, which has politics covered in-depth. There is way more information than I can be bothered with, but it is all there for the asking.
There is also cnn and msnbc, etc etc etc. The National Post is here around midight, with The Globe usually around 5 or 6 am. The Globe is printed in Brandon, and so when the roads are bad, it is delayed.