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Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley => Youngstown in General => Topic started by: jay on November 18, 2010, 07:54:19 AM

Title: Too Many Junk Newspaper Ads
Post by: jay on November 18, 2010, 07:54:19 AM
I hate getting all the junk ads stuffed inside my newspaper each day.
Among the ad inserts today were
7 copies of the same ad.
Title: Re: Too Many Junk Newspaper Ads
Post by: Rick Rowlands on November 18, 2010, 07:58:26 AM
As I see it you have two options, live with the ads or cancel the paper subscription and read it online. 
Title: Re: Too Many Junk Newspaper Ads
Post by: Towntalk on November 18, 2010, 10:14:26 AM
I have to agree with you Rick ... this really is much ado about nothing really.

The ad inserts are placed there by the mailroom department and at the speed the papers come through there are bound to be occasions when more than one each of an ad are placed in the paper.
Title: Re: Too Many Junk Newspaper Ads
Post by: Towntalk on November 18, 2010, 11:27:21 AM
Another gripe customers have is when they get a paper with a split in one of the pages where a portion is glued on.

What happens is one roll of paper is coming to an end. The pressman makes a quick splice and attaches the next roll while the paper is still moving through the press.

Each unit of the press holds three rolls of paper and assigned 4 pages, and the presses can't be stopped just to change rolls, and the "defective" papers can't be yanked out of the run so a few customers are bound to get a paper that has this defect.