Is it too much to ask?

Easy Mac · 02-03-2005, 10:45 AM

For my newspaper to be delivered every day? I signed up last Thursday, and it has been delivered 3 out of 7 days (4 if you count the one that came at 5 pm after I wrote an email saying I had gotten it 2/5). I was reluctant to sign up for the paper before, but they had a pretty good deal last week. It was a years worth of papers for $2 a week ($104 over the year). I figured that was damn good, since I normally just bought it on Sunday at stores for $1.50, so why not have the other days for the extra $.50.

Well, they didn't deliver my paper at all over the weekend (or anyone else's in the complex). They've been there Friday, Monday, and Wednesday... thats all. I've worked it out, and right now I'm paying $.66 per paper, or $.16 more than if I bought it on the newsstand.

Am I wrong to have sent another email saying that if they can't get it to me by 8 am (when I leave for work, and not unreasonable imo) let alone at all, then I may have to reconsider?

sovereignstar · 02-03-2005, 10:49 AM

I don't think you're wrong at all.

Ben E Lou · 02-03-2005, 10:49 AM

I hear ya, Easy. I HEAR ya!

Easy Mac · 02-03-2005, 11:43 AM

I just went home at lunch to check and see if it had come (huge mistake when you live on what amounts to college housing). Nope, no papers had come. The thing is, I literally live 35 seconds away from the newpaper office. Its main office (a huge buliding which has to be a distribution center), is 2 streets over. There's no logical reason why it wouldn't show up.

Hammer755 · 02-03-2005, 11:45 AM

Maybe the $2 a week was only for the 'Every Other Day' package.

rkmsuf · 02-03-2005, 11:46 AM

Perhaps there was no news.

Glengoyne · 02-03-2005, 11:48 AM

You are apparently new on your paper person's route. I'd complain everyday. They will start to remember.

The other possibility with missing papers is that sometimes neighbors steal them. It may not be likely, but it is possible.

Easy Mac · 02-03-2005, 11:53 AM

well, I thought of stolen papers also. I could see that every week or 2, but the chances it was always my paper is slim. At the apartment complex, there are normally 7 or 8 papers out there when they actually deliver it (there were about that many when I signed up), and now these papers are not delivered either, so I don't think its because of the paper person not being used to delivering there, I just think he/she isn't.

So to recap: Either all 7-8 papers are there, or none of them are... and while a bum could walk into our building and grab them (they are put in the unlocked mail room), the chances of that happening 4/7 days is fairly unlikely.

Easy Mac · 02-03-2005, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Perhaps there was no news.

nah, there's some big trial they covering like crazy involving some 12 year old kid (now 15) from my old home town (Chester represent!) who killed his grandparents, burned their house down, blamed it on a black man, and now during the trial blames it on reactions to Zoloft b/c he's bipolar.

That and signing day.

Fritz · 02-03-2005, 11:57 AM

funny, my local paper will not stop leaving shit on my stoop

CraigSca · 02-03-2005, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fritz

funny, my local paper will not stop leaving shit on my stoop

That's an entirely different problem altogether.

02-03-2005, 10:49 AM	#3
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	I hear ya, Easy. I HEAR ya! __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

02-03-2005, 11:45 AM	#5
Hammer755 High School Varsity Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Houston, TX	Maybe the $2 a week was only for the 'Every Other Day' package. __________________ I failed Signature 101 class.

02-03-2005, 11:46 AM	#6
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	Perhaps there was no news. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

02-03-2005, 11:57 AM	#10
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	funny, my local paper will not stop leaving shit on my stoop __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

02-03-2005, 10:49 AM	#2
sovereignstar Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2004	I don't think you're wrong at all.

02-03-2005, 11:43 AM	#4
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	I just went home at lunch to check and see if it had come (huge mistake when you live on what amounts to college housing). Nope, no papers had come. The thing is, I literally live 35 seconds away from the newpaper office. Its main office (a huge buliding which has to be a distribution center), is 2 streets over. There's no logical reason why it wouldn't show up.

02-03-2005, 11:48 AM	#7
Glengoyne Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Fresno, CA	You are apparently new on your paper person's route. I'd complain everyday. They will start to remember. The other possibility with missing papers is that sometimes neighbors steal them. It may not be likely, but it is possible.

02-03-2005, 11:53 AM	#8
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	well, I thought of stolen papers also. I could see that every week or 2, but the chances it was always my paper is slim. At the apartment complex, there are normally 7 or 8 papers out there when they actually deliver it (there were about that many when I signed up), and now these papers are not delivered either, so I don't think its because of the paper person not being used to delivering there, I just think he/she isn't. So to recap: Either all 7-8 papers are there, or none of them are... and while a bum could walk into our building and grab them (they are put in the unlocked mail room), the chances of that happening 4/7 days is fairly unlikely.

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