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Glenn Krasner's avatar

Mark,

So, you know I am actually a doorman in a building near Sutton Place. Like your building, much to the annoyance of the residents, we are still abiding by Covid protocols, and everybody still has to come downstair from their apartments for their take-out food deliveries and grocery deliveries.

However, at some point, even way before Covid, Mitchell's NY (real incompetent scumbags) decided they would not deliver any of the newspapers to the residents, even those who had paid extra for subscriptions for extra-early delivery. They just throw the papers against the outside door or into the lobby at about 4:30 AM to 5:30 AM, and then the doorperson locks the front entrance door and delivers them to the subscribing outside each apartment door. It's been this way for about 5 years now.

So, in the building where I work, the people at least STILL get their newspapers delivered to their doors courtesy of the doorpersons.

Glenn

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Sam Leiter's avatar

I get my Times delivered to my house in Queens daily. The earliest it arrives is 8:45 AM. Usually it’s later, perhaps 9:45. On weekends it’s especially bad. Today it came at 11 AM. But the idea you can pay a ginormous sum for a Times subscription and enjoy it with your coffee is a bubameiser nowadays. I often spot the guy pulling up in his car from my second floor den window, rush downstairs, and try to confront him before he takes off. But since tosses the paper instead of taking it to the door I’m never fast enough to catch him. Since I have no phone number or email for him my only revenge is to wait for Christmas and cut his gift. He always leaves an envelope for one. I’m still not ready to stiff him entirely. But I’m getting there!

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