The theft of home delivered newspapers is a worldwide problem as this blog post by New York resident/writer/journalist Dimitry Kiper shows. No matter whether you’re in rural Australia or high rise New York, there are tight ar*se people who prefer to steal a newspaper than buy one. In our small newspaper distribution round it used to cost us at least two or three newspapers a day – newspapers our distribution people were certain they delivered.
I wish there was a way we could humiliate these petty criminals. Two hundred years ago people were transported from England to Australia and a life of hard labour for stealing less.
I found Dimity’s blog post courtesy of Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMahcine.
I don’t get the paper home delivered because of the fear of losing the paper,
this means I am forced to pay full price from a vending machine or a petrol station (local newsagent is not open when i want to buy the paper) –
maybe there should be a smart card which allows people to take advantage of the subscription rate without the hassle of lost papers.
Hi Fred
I do not where you live but I always in my papers shop at 4:00 am and my first customer come at 4:30am , if I win Lotto , I will continue run this business but I will cancell all home delivery and said to them, stick a finger to their ass.
It doesn’t just apply to home deliveries.
I have a shopping centre agency; and foreign newspaper delivery drivers just throw the papers on the sidewalk.
When I arrive to collect; they are almost always gone.
Its amazing what people will do to avoid paying for other people’s property.
“and said to them, stick a finger to their ass.”
Charming… With an attitude like that, you might need to win the lotto to stay solvent!!