A client of mine has received the London Financial Times for many years. They are no longer offering a print subscription in his area. He could of course get an online subscription, but he doesn’t have a computer and doesn’t really want to get one.
Surely there are services that would mail him a copy of the paper on a daily basis, aren’t there? Yes, he would get the paper a few days late, but that doesn’t seem to bother him.
If such services exist, how do I go about finding one? I tried several Google searches, but clearly I didn’t get the wording right since the first couple of screens did not give useful information.
This is the website of a company that will mail individual magazines worldwide. Looking at their website, it appears that they don’t do this for newspapers, but you might contact them to see if they do. Or find a physical newsstand in the country in which he’s located that does stock that paper and make arrangements with them to mail it out each day. (I imagine that it would be cheaper to receive this from a domestic vendor than from a UK vendor every single day.)
FT does deliver print editions in the US if you are near one of the metropolitan areas where they have a printing contract. Have you checked to see if you are in an area where you could have it delivered to you and then you could forward it onto your client?
I doublechecked and FT no longer delivers to his zipcode. I’m checking into bookstores and news stands in his state (Wisconsin) to see if one can accommodate him.
Have you checked if FT will deliver to any nearby zip codes? Perhaps he could get a private mailbox at a UPS Store in a zip code to which they deliver. He could then either drive there and pick up the accumulated issues, or even have them mail a few days worth at a time. This will be a little expensive, but perhaps less than paying a news agent to mail issues each day.
Just a thought: Call the main library in his town and ask to speak to a reference librarian. They may have some professional insight into where/how to obtain periodicals.
And if that draws a blank, try calling a librarian in a larger city.
Also, is your client dead set against viewing the paper electronically? For $10.25 each week, he can view the paper in an ePaper format that is “an exact digital replica of the printed newspaper”. He could get an iPad Pro with a 12.9" screen that’s close to the actual paper size, and of course the electronic paper will be available sooner than the traditional paper variety.
That reminds me of some early experiments in digital delivery of newspapers and magazines. In the days of slow dial-up connections, I think the idea was to download a file overnight so you could print the newspaper/magazine in the morning yourself.