I quit getting the paper years ago when they got rid of the paper boys. I liked reading the paper before I went to work in the AM. When we had the paperboy the paper was there early and sitting right outside my front door. With the new drivers the paper didn't come till after I left for work and I would have to play hide and go seek to find it in the yard even though we had a paper box.

We just cancelled our newspaper the other day. We have been getting Sunday only delivery for years, and they recently raised the rate to $30/month. (That does include online reading.) I’m not paying $7/paper. It’s not THAT good.

Our rates went way up again too. They say it's the cost of paper. Now the print is so small you sometimes can hardly read it, but it saves the number of pages of newspaper I assume.

It's a habit, so I don't want to cancel my subscription. Plus I enjoy the local news.

One of the joys of living in the country, the WSJ is delivered to my mailbox, so much easier that way.

I still get daily delivery even though the cost keeps rising. I'd miss it if I didn't get it. I use the newspapers in my green bin, as well.

I read online sometimes, but I find their website is not user-friendly at all. I'd put in a word in the search box and get 1,000 hits even though it was a prominent word in a recent edition.

What really gets me is the late delivery of the flyers. I love, love paper flyers. I keep the ones I want and keep going back and looking to make sure I'm not missing anything. I can't stand scrolling page after page on the computer or phone and having to enlarge the pic etc.

Hubby and I both delivered the flyers in our neighbourhoods for a couple of years and we were done by noon on Weds. We quit when hubby's cancer showed up again, as we live on the top floor of a triplex. The actual delivering was easy and very enjoyable. The absolute struggle was lugging the big bags up the stairs (often 10 bags), and sorting the bundles into bags again and taking them down the stairs to the car.

Anyway, they're supposed to be all delivered by Thurs at 6, and often I don't get them (today as an example) until Friday afternoon.

I would get our local paper if they actually printed local news. Somewhere during a buyout they went to clipping old news and printing it. Major things happen locally and wont get so much as a mention. When someone's house burns down or somebody gets killed in an accident you would think...Then there was the massive fraud thing when "someone" sold the school district a big chunk of overpriced protected farm land to expand the high school onto. The school district got stuck with over priced land that cant be built on and who the principals involved were somehow never made it into the paper. Now really. Now you know there have to be law suits but did we hear about them. No, we got stale international news.

Among the joys of retirement is that I no longer "need" to read the Wall Street Journal every day nor follow the weekly or otherwise periodic business mags/newspapers that cover business news in my vibrant area. I don't read them at all, one of the symbols of the work-a-day rat race I was able to shed. I don't even pick one up if I find a current edition in a waiting room I'm in.

It's more than symbolic. I don't miss them.

Patricia, I used to wonder why TWO prominent businessmen would stay a bit too long at the Elks Club, consume too much alcohol, get in their car to drive home, get stopped by law enforcement and receive a ticket, but nary a word in the local paper. I was young and naive. Maybe your paper has the same problem. Or maybe they don’t have a good news reporter.

I get most of my local news from FB. Both the local newspaper and the radio station post news there very regularly.

Our local paper is pretty worthless for any kind of "news". I gave up on paper delivery because they wouldn't deliver it to my driveway, but down the block where the mailboxes were and I didn't want to have to get dressed to get the paper or scandalize the neighbors in my robe. I have online only now, but for some reason instead of news reports they seem to publish videos, which I don't want to watch. I have very slow internet and videos are slow to load. I like to read words. I'm very close to cancelling, but do like to be able to read about entertainment options in the area, which they do list. They no longer publish in our town but in a town several hours away, which seems to have removed the local feeling.

I subscribe to the NYT (online) even though I don't read it every day, just to support a very important source of news in our country.

I get the local paper here, very small newspaper. Every so often it doesn't show up. It's only once a week, on Wednesdays. I then have to drive to the newspaper office to pick one up. It's delivered by usps in our mailboxes. It's not far and this town is small but it's still annoying that I have to run and get it if I want to read that week's paper.

My paper no longer offers home delivery Monday through Saturday. Instead, they have switched to a “digital
replica” version that can be read on a phone, tablet or desk top pc. The
digital version is an exact copy of the print version of the paper, page layout
and all. Digital subscribers are provided, free of charge, with an IPad from
the paper, on which the paper can be read. The paper has invested $12 million
in IPads on this speculative project.

No more walking outside to retrieve your paper and it’s always
there by 4 am provided you have Internet connectivity.

Granted, it’s a crap shoot on whether or not it will work
but for newspapers these are desperate times.