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Globe could hire second delivery company to supplement the one that's not delivering all its papers

The Globe reports.

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hard to believe that only 5% of home delivery customers are still affected as ACI claims. It wouldn't take six months to fix that.

1 for 8 in JP.

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Bizarre that the Globe is only 'considering' delivering papers to the customers that paid for them. Who does John Henry think he is??

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Who does John Henry think he is??

He thinks he's the owner of a sports franchise that many New Englanders have an irrational religious devotion to and put more emotional energy into then they do their own spouse.

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I'm confident he knew full well what percentage of subscribers would jump ship and weighed that against projected savings (among other things).

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I once got the newspaper delivered by them. They were good. Of course, the newspaper in question was the Globe, but whatever.

I hate to either jinx it or get more people to hate me, but the paper was on the front porch by 7 this morning, so my Roslindale route has the ACI all-star on it.

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No paper yet except for the special delivery from a high-priced SUV yesterday.

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When's the print edition of UHub come out? This debacle for the Glob sounds like an opportunity for others. :)

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From "Notice to our Readers" in today's Lynn Item:

http://www.itemlive.com/news/notice-to-our-readers/article_b6f7575e-b36a...

We are also moving rapidly to fix a problem with home-delivery service that some customers have experienced over the past few days, a ripple effect resulting from another newspaper’s change in distribution vendors.

“With the departure of one of our clients to go with a new distribution company, we have been challenged to restructure our Daily Item delivery routes,” said Tom Carney, director of New England Distribution for Publishers Circulation Fulfillment (PCF), the delivery company that distributes The Item to homes and stores. “This restructure has contributed to some new carriers not following delivery instructions. Rest assured these issues are being addressed and will be resolved in a short period of time.”

PCF was the firm the Globe (a/k/a "one of our clients") dumped

Interesting in the same article was also:

Item increasing its price to $ 1 at the newsstand, up from 75 cents; and, the Item removing paywall from their Internet site.

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And then that company will hire another firm as a subcontractor and so on, and so on. Eventually, the Globe will hire each home subscriber to go to the nearest big intersection at 4:30 am to pickup one paper each.

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The directors of the firm hired to continue the deliveries after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The deliveries will been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute

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