News paper by mail (Seattle: fit in, houses, neighborhood)

[Diana Holbrook]

I think the newspaper at the kitchen table was a little more social than online... We'd trade sections and talk about it... I guess we do that now too, but there's less tactile *feel* to reading on screens.


Yeah pnwguy.... we cross posted about the *feel* of the paper.

[flyingsaucermom]

I had noticed even before Covid that there were less papers in coffee shops and doctor's offices... post-covid you can't find any printed materials. Sometimes I don't have my phone on me or I don't want to waste battery so I always have to have a back up on me... usually my kindle or an actual book... but still... I miss the papers and magazines.

[MechAndy]

When I was a spud I delivered the morning paper and the afternoon paper.
I was told to and motivated to because I could save and spend my money on anything I wanted.
Switch blades, cherry bombs, booze or whatever.
Mom was even cool with me sneaking contraband stuff home from Tijuana.
I wasn’t a drug guy but l liked cool toys .

Kids now are missing a lesson.

The other year my mom asked for a subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Holy crap!
Nothing cheap about it!
Freaking paper cost more than my first few cars or motorcycles for a daily delivery.


The one in Sequim costs a buck and is so small I could probably fold it up and completely put it in my pocket.

As mentioned, it does go good with a cup of coffee .

[pnwguy2]

Of course the days of mom & dad waiting on the morning or afternoon paper to get the news are over for the most part. I think the point here is the electronic media has greatly changed this behavior. That said, many still like to sit down and read a paper today without having to look at a screen. It doesn’t mean they are old fashioned, it just means the experience is more meaningful. As in instead of being read to they are actually reading.

[happygrrrl]

Originally Posted by MechAndy

The one in Sequim costs a buck and is so small I could probably fold it up and completely put it in my pocket.

As mentioned, it does go good with a cup of coffee .

You might be confusing PDN with the Sequim Gazette....the latter is a weekly publication, same as the Forks Forum

[mojo101]

dont feel sorry for those who deliver your newspaper in the morning,they are well compensated,besides,around Xmas they will send you a card and I usually send back a card with a tip,$25-$35

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Perhaps the hurried generation has never realized that there is a lot more in a newspaper that never makes it online. I guess they wouldn't know that if they have never actually seen a newspaper.



As for the mail, where I am and at the place I moved from (different states) the mail service was pretty unreliable. I suppose just like anyone else, they have trouble getting good people. Only for them, when they get a bad worker, they can't get rid of them. Or maybe it is just because their younger workers can't read addresses that are written in cursive.

[rantiquity]

Originally Posted by MechAndy

The one in Sequim costs a buck and is so small I could probably fold it up and completely put it in my pocket.

As mentioned, it does go good with a cup of coffee .

My PDN on Monday was $1.50. I don't know what the Saturday (the old Sunday's) because I didn't get it in the mail.

[rantiquity]

Originally Posted by happygrrrl

You might be confusing PDN with the Sequim Gazette....the latter is a weekly publication, same as the Forks Forum

The Gazette has a lot of Sequim area news and is about three+ more pages than the PDN.
I find it interesting that the PDN covers four areas (Forks, PA, Sequim and PT) but the PA/Sequim paper is loaded with PT news which has little interest to me and I am wondering if people in Forks has any interest at all in PT news. I have never seen a PT paper and I wonder if it has Forks, PA and Sequim news?

[rantiquity]

Replacing news carriers with the mail post person is a bad idea.

Not only did it put a lot of people out of work the paper increased prices too boot.