Sunday Newspaper
A recent Sunday newspaper
I have always loved getting a physical newspaper and reading it. For years, I have subscribed to the Salt Lake Tribune and getting the paper delivered on my driveway each day, waking up and going outside in any weather condition and bring it in, opening it up on the kitchen counter and looking for those stories of interest. When I grew up in California, it was the Los Angeles Times with the Calendar section being my favorite part of the enormous Sunday paper.
But then some years ago, the newspaper industry changed. The daily paper went down to 5 days a week. And now 2 days a week, delivered via the post office instead of carrier delivery. And the paper went digital and app based.
Adapting and Adjusting
I support the newspaper industry and will continue to do so. In addition to the current hybrid subscription of two physical papers a week and the digital Salt Lake Tribune, I digitally subscribe to the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times (both annual). I can easily keep on top of the stories and news on the newspapers with their respective apps. Which is a nice thing, but there are various issues that will have me making a change to my Salt Lake Tribune subscription.
As I mentioned above, the SL Trib gets delivered to my mailbox two days a week – Wednesday and Saturday (which is the Sunday paper). Since I moved, there have been at least 8 of these papers that never got delivered to me, requiring me to send an email to let them know I never got my paper. They extend my subscription for each missed paper, but it has caused me to rethink the physical paper and go all digital for the Trib when I am up for my yearly renewal next month. Which will be the end of an era for delivery of the physical paper.
Reading
Forrest the cat looking at the Sodoku
Yes, while it will be sad to go without a physical paper, I will still continue to subscribe to the Salt Lake Tribune on their digital platform. And then when I am out and about and see a physical paper, I will sit down and enjoy reading it.
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I can’t even remember how long ago it was that we canceled the Chicago Tribune home delivery. I had no idea some were being delivered by USPS. I wonder if any of our locals do that.
I know some local papers do USPS delivery in other cities.
We’d been getting the New York Times delivered every Sunday. Of late we found we didn’t always have time or were not in the mood for reading it. So some weeks, it didn’t even come out of the delivery bag. So with somewhat heavy heart we cancelled our subscription.
Yeah that it a hard decision to cancel the newspaper. I did my physical paper subscription cancellation this last week and switched to the SL Tribune all digital.