# I cancelled my newpaper subscription today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719 "2010-10-10T20:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/21 "2010-10-14T03:29:23Z")
Get a Kindle. It hardly counts as a computer at all, easy to operate before morning coffee. Subscribe to the New York Times or something. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/22 "2010-10-14T03:58:48Z")
We get home delivery Sunday and sometimes Thursday or Fri. When I get the home delivery i just feel good for a while. i like reading the paper in my hot little hands. It costs more to read the on line version… digitalfreepress . It is slow and awkward to use. They just revamped the online version . It is graphically more pleasing but slower. We used to have 3 papers. Now the Times is gone and the News and Freepress are supposed to have merged. But the sad fact vis they are homoginized into an uninteresting crap fest. There used to be a semi lefty and a righty paper. No more. It is all conservative all day long. But I read the sports and comics. ’ ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/23 "2010-10-15T00:31:26Z")
The OP doesn’t have to worry about having no paper to read… at least, not for a few weeks more. I stopped my subscription to the Post-Dispatch several years ago. They were sorry to hear that, could they ask why, etc., etc. They kept delivering the paper. I called: oops, they “forgot” to cancel that. They’ll fix that, right away. They sent a bill for the papers they’d delivered after my subscription ended. Another call, another ooh we’ll fix that. Kept getting papers. _Three_ more calls, _and_ another bill later… one Monday, the paper stopped showing up. Success, at last! Well, no. Saturday morning, asleep, I hear the kerthunk of a stealth paper delivery driveby. Yet _another_ call on Monday, oh gosh we have down you switched to weekend-only delivery, we’ll fix that. I like to think my demand to be escalated up the customer service chain at least stopped the inevitable bill for _that_. In the years since then, they fairly regularly deliver papers to the whole neighborhood, without warning. Calls then have elicited the explanation that they’re complimentary copies, so everyone can see what they’re missing. Would I like to subscribe? If nothing else, it at least gives me something to put in my recycling bin. Since I live alone, it doesn’t fill up too fast, so I don’t put it out every week and the neighbors probably think I’m a terrible person, ruining the environment and all. At last, a use for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/24 "2010-10-15T01:27:29Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > … and they _cut lines out of the baseball box scores_! What a piece of shit. I wouldn’t insult a hamster by lining its cage with such a newspaper. I am completely serious. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/25 "2010-10-15T05:03:00Z")
Unfortunately, [noparse][STLtoday.com](http://STLtoday.com)[/noparse] isn’t any better. I only go there for the crossword and the comments (which are a amusing in a sad way). ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/26 "2010-10-16T16:49:02Z")
Kindle + NYT subscription. Or your closest major daily that’s worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719/27 "2010-10-16T20:17:27Z")
Sometimes you can’t get rid of them. The Houston Post went under in 1995 and was acquired by the Houston Chronicle, who automatically started delivering the Chronicle to former Post subscribers. The Chronicle was a sorry rag even back then (granted, the Post wasn’t all that much better) and I wanted no part of it and canceled my subscription. They continued to deliver to me for several months. I would go out in the morning, pick up the paper, carry it straight back to the garbage can and dispose of it unopened. This went on until I let four or five of the papers accumulate in my yard, then called the Chronicle and asked to have the delivery person stop by my house. When he did, I pointed at the papers and asked him to stop throwing his trash in my yard and to please remove it. That was the only way I was able to get them to stop it. And even now, they throw “complimentary” copies in my yard every six months or so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-newpaper-subscription-today/556719.md?page=1)