The end of an era

[bex77]

Thanks for the input on whether to cancel my Boston Globe delivery subscription. Seems like almost no one is getting it daily anymore.

So I am scaling back to Sunday delivery only...I'll keep the coupons and the comics and Parade and maybe a little Sunday Globe magazine now and then. I am pretty sure I won't miss it. And I definitely won't miss hauling the piles of papers to the recycling bin. It will be great to have the extra money every month.

But it does feel like the end of an era...this will be the first time in my entire, rather lengthy, life that I won't have the paper on the doorstep every day.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oh, the times they are a'changin...

Better for the environment that you get your weekday news online. And better for your wallet, too.

[beezy17.livejournal.com]

i even question still getting it just on sunday. since i live so far out of boston they won't deliver it unless i get it every day. so every sunday for 7 years now i've trekked up the hill, four blocks to the cumberland farms to buy the sunday globe. but at $ 4 now its, really not even worth it. there's hardly anything in it i actually read, and the coupons that i can actually use are so few it rarely makes up for the cost of the paper. to say nothing about how totally crappy the sunday comics are in the globe now. we get better ones in the leominster paper.

[ron_newman]

I haven't cancelled my daily Globe subscription yet but I sure have thought about it over the past few months. I've had at least one daily paper delivered to every place I've ever lived since I was an infant, so that's not an easy habit to break. Daily papers I've read over the years:

Memphis Commercial Appeal
Chicago Sun-Times (my grandma bought my mom a mail subscription for many years)
Akron Beacon Journal
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Citizen-Journal (defunct)
Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times
Santa Monica Evening Outlook (defunct)