![]() We called the number, he identified himself, and next day he delivered The New York Times to our driveway, and he’s been doing it since then. Your delivery boy, Anthony.” And there was his phone number. On the front was printed the following: “Happy Valentine’s Day. Sliding the paper out of the plastic, a white envelope fell to the floor. On a rainy day Sunday, three days later, we drove over, opened the gate (they’d given us permission) and removed the blue plastic bag with a 6-pound Sunday New York Times in it and drove home. We come out about once every other weekend. We’re trying to get The New York Times to stop, they told me. Later, I found the estate owner’s name, address and phone number. They could be newspaper subscribers, too. She stopped me from opening the gate to slide out a paper to see if it was The New York Times. I was convinced these were our newspapers but my wife was not so sure. Newspaper delivery people had been throwing them over the gate and onto the lawn. About a dozen copies of a newspaper were sprinkled on the lawn just inside. Number 27 was an estate with an iron gate. On the way we passed a road with a street sign that read Three Mile Harbor Drive. A week ago, we were four miles into the Northwest Woods to meet up with some friends for a beach walk. Now we come to the grand finale of this story. A month free! For a newspaper I pay for but haven’t seen in five months. How about I give you another month of credits and let me fix it? Future deliveries will be at no charge until the credits run out. No, we don’t refund the money for nondelivery. If you do that, he said, you will lose all the credits we’ve put into your account. ![]() I called the Times and in two minutes an agent talked me out of it. ![]() Maybe then they’ll deliver it to the right place. I’m going to cancel our subscription for four days, I told my wife, then get a new one four days later but in your name instead of mine. East Hampton Town owns the East Hampton Airport and wants to make it less noisy, so, on May 17 they will close the airport for two days and then reopen it with the town still the owner, but now it will have a quieter noise level designation. Then something going on in East Hampton gave me an idea. And we pay more when we buy it at the store anyway. I have paid $600 to The New York Times for you to not deliver my paper. When I told my wife she’d have to cancel that for the credits to go through from the Times, she took it well enough. He found that my wife had ordered a free crossword puzzle from Apple and Apple was now overseeing the billing. ![]() They were still charging me as if I got the paper.Īn agent spent half an hour looking into that. Making matters even worse was the fact there were no credits being deducted on my Amex account. This kept up through the end of 2021 and into the winter of 2022. Did I want to cancel my subscription? No? I then told this agent I’d founded Dan’s Papers in 1960 and always took delivery seriously to fix any problem. “We have about 32,000 distributors,” an agent said on one call. They said the more you call, the sooner we’ll open an investigation about it. I mentioned I like Gerry Mulligan, but being on hold 20 minutes a day was a hardship. They really want you to call back every single day to report a nondelivery. I learned a lot about how they handled delivery problems. But there was no paper the next day, or the next.
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