High robbery at the StarTribune?

[question everything]

It used to be, still is with other newspapers, that when one suspends delivery, the subscription would be extended by the amount of days of suspension. Not with the strib. Seven days do not count. If one suspends for 10 days, the subscription is extended by only 3 days.

I cannot imagine how this is legal. Yes, they do declare this when one suspends online.

As others have said here: we are used to have a morning paper with our coffee, especially as we are now retired, sleep late, take our sweet time to get going. But sometimes I wonder whether it is worth it. With sports stories are always the main ones - when they happen, as they were last week. Twice.

The rest of the main section is full of syndicated stories from the NYT, WaPo and others. The "Minnesota" sections is full of rapes and stabbing and robberies across the state...

I suppose I should consider this $300 yearly subscription as a community contribution. Perhaps I should list this on my income tax statement.

At least we have a wonderful delivery lady whom we reward at every opportunity. If it rains or snows, the paper would be right at the garage door.

Sigh

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I often ask myself why I keep my subscription,

but on occasions where I've let it lapse I start to miss it and buy it anyway. I think it's because I like to read it during a leisurely breakfast (I'm retired, too) with no computer in front of me, and I'm kind of addicted to crossword puzzles. It's also nice to have a printed TV schedule. And I do confess a sort of watching-a-trainwreck fascination with the Minnesota section (which they should probably retitle "Rape, Murder and Child Molestation&quot . The Op-Ed page is full of wingnuttery; the columns of the odious Katherine Kersten would be used to line the bird cage if I had a bird. But I keep resubscribing, doing the crossword puzzles, and abandoning the unread sports section at the coffee shop.

[question everything]

4. Oh, and I like Sacks cartoons (nt)

[trotsky]

2. The Internet is killing print...

but print is not helping their cause AT ALL. The Strib has turned into one of the worst examples of it.

[question everything]

6. I know and this is one reason why we still subscribe

but, as you say, their attitude does not help.

The irony is, they offered me to purchase a "digital subscription" for when I am out of town, when I cannot read the issues for which I am still paying for it.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Read this Glen Taylor POS ever day.

Hoping against hope,that this thing would get a grip and change to fit the Liberal make up of the Twin Cities. Not. Like mentioned prior,just watching this so called Newspaper becoming a Train Wreck,and to thing I was a Carrier back in the fifties when they did real news. Appears Taylor has turned the Scrib into a clone of his Timber Puppies,losers.

[question everything]

5. One irony is that in previous years when I would suspend delivery

I was offered to donate the newspapers to schools, instead of extending my subscription and I did, a few times.

Now they offer to add donation to this fund when I pay the bill. I've done it but no more. They can use my unread newspapers for this purpose.

[LuckyLib]

7. The Star Trib reads like a high level periodical compared with

papers like the Sacramento Bee. The Bee is such a pitiful excuse for a newspaper that I can't imagine anyone subscribes.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. And to think the Bee

was one of the Gold Standards years ago. So was the Morning Star and the Evening Trib was the catch all of the Twin Cities news nothing hard hitting.

[dflprincess]

9. I keep my subscription going though every time I pay the bill I wonder why

though I know I would really miss it on Saturday & Sunday mornings when I can take time with it.

I'd didn't know they changed the suspension policy (I'll bet the carrier doesn't get paid for those extra days) makes me glad I when I was gone last week I just had a neighbor pick my paper up and keep it for herself.

[progree]

10. Never subscribed in over 30 years here. Told Strib today I take them to the dumpster

Background: for the last 3 Sundays, I found the Sunday Star Tribune -- this massive insult to the environment -- sitting on my front porch (and please don't tell me about recycling -- I read paper can be recycled about 6-8 times total. Plus the fuel burned to transport and deliver it). And like I really have time to take that whole mess apart and look for something more worth reading than what I can find online with a few clicks.

I called the Star Tribune this morning asking what's up with that (the Sunday papers on my porch), and told him I've been taking it to the dumpster room -- to put it on a shelf there in case anyone else is interested in it. He told me I was selected to receive 8 free weeks, but he said he would stop the delivery. I said Great!

I do love reading dead-tree magazines like The Nation in bed or on the couch, I don't read EVERYTHING online, and don't want to. But I just don't like unraveling and reading broadsheets. Plus they are a bitch to clip and store articles. Whereas most magazines (and all that I read) are 8.5 X 11" - easy to store articles torn from them into regular file folders.