The Sun Delivery

[FishDog]

Hi guys, just wanted your opinion on something.

Would you pay £2 per week to have the Sun delivered to your door every day Monday to Friday before you went to work?

20p for the sun x 5 days = £1 + £1 delivery for the whole week.

Is this something that you as a customer would pay for? The paper would be delivered to your door between 5am and 8am.

Please, your feedback would be appreciated.

 

[Employment Law Clinic]

Personally, I wouldn't pay £2 for the Sun to be delivered for a year, let alone a week.

I believe The Telegraph & The Times both do free deliveries, only charging for the cover price of the paper; Ocado certainly offer a service for The Times, while I think you need to contact The Telegraph direct for their service.

It might cost you a bit more, but then you have a decent paper to read (well, with The Telegraph at least).


Karl Limpert

 

How much for just Page 3.?:|


Yes I am sure most people would pay £2.00 a week delivered,but maybe not the Sun.

Earl

 

[FishDog]

Thanks for your feedback guys. Its interesting, 2 comments and 2 people saying 'Not the Sun'. Am i missing something? haha

The reason i think this would work is that many people work the average 9-5, so have to go out and get the paper etc, but i would much prefer the paper to be there when i wake up so i can read with my breakfast. No going out in the cold to get it.

 

[saracen]

I personally wouldnt pay for a newspaper delivery.


Then again my daughter has a paper round so many people like their papers delivered.

It all comes down to personal choice, if the paper boy / girl is reliable and you obtain your paper prior to heading off to work, office etc and your route doesnt take you past a outlet selling newspapers then yes it could be worth the extra money for delivery.

 

[sellickbhoy]

A better idea might be the SUNDAY papers - folk won't want to get up to go get them - bring them a bottle of irn bru, couple of bacon rolls and a sunday paper BLISS!!

but as for "news"papers - I stopped buying them years ago, then again, i made a conscious effort to avoid the news, papers and current affairs programs - i've been blissfully happy ever since.

and you know what - i don't feel like i've missed anything.

 

[extremedistro]

def not..... Just turn on the comp and you have free news......

 

[spigwell]

I dont pay that much for our paperboy and he will deliver any paper i want 7 days a week.

 

[love2hire]

i wouldn't either, but then i go online to read the paper

 

[Rhyl Lightworks]

You'd have to pay me to get the Sun delivered. I stopped delivery of the Guardian last year, when I thought the delivery charges were becoming extortionate. I now subscribe to it by DD, get a coupon, and pick it up everyday from a newsagent - much cheaper this way.

Yet another example of supermarkets killing smaller businesses - I suspect paper deliveries will go the way of milk, bread, meat, greens, etc. as the supermarkets take over.

It is also an example of how labour has become so expensive in this country. Even paying a 13 or 14 year old costs a lot now.

Barrie

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Yep I agree with those above.I get my info from the pooter.

 

[adventurelife]

I do not buy papers anymore apart from the odd Sunday one. If I do buy it is the Times or Scotland on Sunday or the Herald. The web gives us news so why get a paper?

My son works in our local newsagent part time. The owner has stopped delivering as he says the demand has got to a level where it is not worth it.

 

[Dawg]

My initial response was "I'd pay not to have The Sun delivered".

Then I thought, "Are there a couple of thousand like me, who would pay me not to deliver The Sun to them?"

Thus empires begin...

 

[Draugen]

It's the sort of thing that would tempt me, but I'd be worried about getting my fingers burnt.

...I'll get me coat

 

[Employment Law Clinic]

I now subscribe to it by DD, get a coupon, and pick it up everyday from a newsagent - much cheaper this way.

Yet another example of supermarkets killing smaller businesses - I suspect paper deliveries will go the way of milk, bread, meat, greens, etc. as the supermarkets take over.

I do the same (for the Telegraph), and it is much cheaper, even if I don't pick up the paper every day.

But as for the supermarkets taking over, I collect my paper from the supermarket simply because the newsagents often won't accept the vouchers. No end of excuses why - they can't be redeemed unless they have 100 a week; they're not registered to redeem them; costs too much to redeem; and endless other nonsense reasons - so the local shops lose more of my trade, as any cigarettes or other items I need to pick up in the morning are bought (cheaper) from the supermarket too.


Karl Limpert

 

[retailworld]

Slightly O/T - but local newsagents are getting a lot of bad press from this thread!

Why do you propose just 'The Sun' to be delivered? Would this apply to any paper? Why wouldn't the customer get the local newsagent to deliver?

 

The question is would you pay 20 pence a day to have the sun deliverd.

I certainly would ,because if I had to jump in the car and drive to the local paper shop it would cost me far more that 20 pence a trip.

There is also the point that 30% of the population do not have an internet connection,so reading online is out for them.

What a lot of cheapskates,especially the accountants who can't work out it costs more to go to a shop than to have your paper delivered.

Earl

 

[thebigIAM]

I thought newspaper distribution was tightly controlled by Menzies and such like? I think if you decided to set up a delivery service without their say-so they would be down on you like the proverbial ton of bricks.

 

[Gillie]

I am missing the point of this topic? If you want a certain newspaper delivered at the moment, you head to your local newsagent, who then takes your wishes and arranged delivery between the hours of 7am-8.30am, when a nice brat will come in all weathers and push it through your letterbox.

Something thats been happening for a long long long time. Therefore why a thread about having the Sun delivered, why that particular one? And yes people will pay, they have for as long as paperboys have existed!!

Don't head to Liverpool to ask this question though ... the papers been blacklisted there for a number of years!!

 

[Rhyl Lightworks]

But as for the supermarkets taking over, I collect my paper from the supermarket simply because the newsagents often won't accept the vouchers. No end of excuses why - they can't be redeemed unless they have 100 a week; they're not registered to redeem them; costs too much to redeem; and endless other nonsense reasons - so the local shops lose more of my trade, as any cigarettes or other items I need to pick up in the morning are bought (cheaper) from the supermarket too.


Karl Limpert

I haven't found this a problem round here. Every shop, big or small, seems to take them. I get a local newsagent to keep me a paper Mon to Fri, but Sat and Sun I often don't get out till the streets are well aired, and my main problem then is that some shops have run out of the paper I want. Then I must admit to sometimes going to a supermarket.

Barrie

 

[thebusiness]

You pay me £2 a week to deliver the Sun to my house and I'll consider it, but only if you don't let the neighbours see it!

 

[charlotte99]

Don't know where you are, but here in St Neots is 30p a day so think you are half way to a bargain!

 

[FishDog]

And Charlotte, do you know if many people get the sun delivered for that price? I have spoken to my local newsagent an he gets his papers at 5.30 am, and i would aim to get them delivered before 8.30, thats 3 hours. In that time i can deliver 400 papers, at £1 per week deliver thats £400 per week cash in hand. Thats just for 3 hours work in a morning.

 

[retailworld]

And Charlotte, do you know if many people get the sun delivered for that price? I have spoken to my local newsagent an he gets his papers at 5.30 am, and i would aim to get them delivered before 8.30, thats 3 hours. In that time i can deliver 400 papers, at £1 per week deliver thats £400 per week cash in hand. Thats just for 3 hours work in a morning.

I am going to SERIOUSLY disagree with this - I defy anyone to deliver 400 papers at 36 seconds for each paper, for several reasons:

- You can be sure that the 400 customers don't all live next to each other
- You can assume that you can't carry 400 papers, so you will have to return to the shop (or wherever) to pick up a second lot (for arguments sake, a maximum of 60 x Sun's would fit into the standard news-round bag)
- How do you know which houses to deliver to? Either you mark the papers, else use a list, but time has to be spent creating either method
- Who packs the papers into order if you're delivering any papers other than Sun's?
- Who supp's the weekend insert (unless the Sun has started pre-inserting in the last few months)

And lastly - if it was this simple - don't you think we'd be a nation of newspaper boys/girls?

 

[yorkshirejames]

Hmmmm.... if we're talking 20p a day for a high-res photograph of one of the early pages of the paper, but with hands or other blocking things removed, then maybe.

Surely you're on the wrong forum to ask about the Sun though!

In general, the only papers I regularly read are "Metro" on my way to wherever and "The London Lite" on the way back - RIP "the london paper".

If I find a broadsheet in a reception area/left on a train I will always read it, and very occasionally I will but the Saturday Telegraph/Sunday Times, but thats about it. Like many other people, there are websites to find out the news. Then theres the environmental impact...

 

[sherry_d]

Gosh I must be the odd one but I have to admit I currently subscribe to the sun and the paperboy delivers it and it cost me £2.50...I do get some other papers though....

I love peeping through the sun....reason I get the paper is I spend all my day online so when I just want to chill and hear stupid gossip I get my sun out...

Come on guys there is nothing wrong with reading the sun....its entertaining eerm like today they dont support labour anymore....

Because I am online all the time I love the time i spend reading the sun...even though it works out to be around 15mins daily as....

Me thinks the number of people who read this thread and are responding shows there must such an audience for the sun...though they may not want neighbours to adimit it....

Give me sun any day that the dailymail...I hate that paper and it seems my paper boy gets a bit more of daily mail. I got some free vouchers from the newsagent and just couldnt stand that paper....

To make myself feel better I subsribe to the weekend financial times too...so I dont get too gulty of reading the sun

Please admit it if you read the sun....nothing wrong with it ROLF

 

[Beachcomber]

There is also the point that 30% of the population do not have an internet connection,so reading online is out for them.

47% of Sun readers can't read.
Go figure :|

 

[spigwell]

47% of Sun readers can't read.
Go figure :|

The other 53% of devoted readers are fluent with braile. :|

 

[Rhyl Lightworks]

Give me sun any day that the dailymail...I hate that paper and it seems my paper boy gets a bit more of daily mail. I got some free vouchers from the newsagent and just couldnt stand that paper....

I agree the Mail is a far worse paper than the Sun, as is the Express, because both those papers have pretensions of being real papers, whereas a lot of Sun readers realise it is really an adult comic. I read the headlines of every paper (in the case of the Sun that virtually means the front page) every day as I call in the newsagents, but for the life of me, treating it as a comic or not I cannot see how anyone can enjoy reading it (call me a snob if you will).

Barrie

 

i could not be paid to have the sun mail of express pushed through my letter box ,its shocking the cack that they print

 

[yorkshirejames]

I agree the Mail is a far worse paper than the Sun, as is the Express, because both those papers have pretensions of being real papers, whereas a lot of Sun readers realise it is really an adult comic. I read the headlines of every paper (in the case of the Sun that virtually means the front page) every day as I call in the newsagents, but for the life of me, treating it as a comic or not I cannot see how anyone can enjoy reading it (call me a snob if you will).

Barrie

Seconded. I think if "The Times" started doing a page 3 people would stop even a quick flick through "The Sun".

 

[Philip Hoyle]

And Charlotte, do you know if many people get the sun delivered for that price? I have spoken to my local newsagent an he gets his papers at 5.30 am, and i would aim to get them delivered before 8.30, thats 3 hours. In that time i can deliver 400 papers, at £1 per week deliver thats £400 per week cash in hand. Thats just for 3 hours work in a morning.

And how many hours will it take you to go round collecting the money from 400 customers? That's 400 door knocks, plus wasted time constantly going back to those who weren't in. Or were you thinking of making them pay by standing order or direct debit - 400 lots of bank "pay-ins" could well cost a fortune in bank charges and then you have to have some form of control over those who've cancelled or whose payments have bounced. To administer 400 customers, you'd easily lose a full day or two every week. Have you actually spoken to newsagents about the problems of home delivery? Have you spoken to other kinds of home deliverer such as milk men, window cleaners, etc? Our family used to run a newsagent, and we only had about 300 customers on the books, but that took 10 paper boys each working between 30 minutes and an hour - so that's an average of 7.5 working hours per day just for 300 customers within a mile of the shop. Chasing debts etc easily took the best part of a day and that was with most customers coming into the shop - we only collected from a few dozen of the oldest customers and those living furthest away. Sadly, I think you're way off the mark. I'd say that you'd manage to deliver about 100 per day in your three hour timeslot.