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After a few too many ales last night I woke up at 7am feeling like somebody had cleaved the back of my head in with a claw hammer and the prospect of crawling to the newsagents for the papers seemed disproportionatley daunting. I whimpered in vain for a return of the late lamented paperperson and was struck by the notion that I cant remember when they ceased to be. How did this appalling state of affairs come to pass and how can we institute a return to a gentler more civilised time when a mans Sunday morning rituals were no more demanding than creaking down the stairs and peeling his rag of choice off the doormat then skulking back to bed for another 4 hours?
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Thanks for the info womanofdulwich. I'll leave the rest of you to your fevered imaginings. Oh, and silverfox my question was do paper-delivery-people still exist? not the intricacies of ordering a regular delivery. Still, thanks and keep up the good work.
I did it when I was about 14. The bag weighed a ton- especially on Sundays and I was always tired in school from having got up at 5am. I then found out that I was petrified of dogs so my parents let me give it up. I would not let my kids do it- it's inhuman and tantamount to exploitation of children. Newspapers have old news as well.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> Use the computer that you are posting from. Think

> of the rain forests that produce paper...

>

> ... and the Octopae that produce ink.


... maybe when computers are powered wholly by renewable energy resources I'll forego my Sunday indulgence.

Ah, I love The Times on a Sunday and was thinking of taking up their subscription offer but then read the small print that stated that it sent you vouchers that you then took to the newsagent to exchange for aforementioned rag. Bit rubbish really...but if you know better I'm all ears.

bon3yard Wrote:

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> Ah, I love The Times on a Sunday and was thinking

> of taking up their subscription offer but then

> read the small print that stated that it sent you

> vouchers that you then took to the newsagent to

> exchange for aforementioned rag. Bit rubbish

> really...but if you know better I'm all ears.


Get a newsagent to deliver them, and arrange to pay the once a week/month delivery bill with vouchers instead of cash, it shouldn't be that much of a hassle...

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