I found this announcement from the New York Times from February this year, advising of a home delivery increase to US$8.00 for 7 day home delivery. It was their first increase in ten years. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are the closest newspapers we have to the Times here. Their seven day home delivery fees are, by my reckoning, 40% less than those for the Times. The Times charges more the further you are from New York. I’m told that delivery charges for a year are US$255.00, making the daily cost 70 cents – between seven and ten times the Australian home delivery fee. There’s some more discussion about the New York Times figures here.
Newsagents in Australia get between 50 cents and 70 cents a week for a seven day home delivery of a newspaper. We’ve had one increase in ten years. We are worse off today in real terms than ten years ago yet wages, fuel and other costs have risen in real terms.