A week ago, in the pages of the Snooze, I saw a "tip your carrier" coupon. I was just grokking to see if the exurban issue, still weirdly delivered to the Fort Worth side of the north exurban Metroplex, ie, WEST of I-35, had surpassed the 15 percent mark, or even the 10 percent mark, on Thursday adhole. (NOT counting obits, it was right at 10 percent.) Because I was just grokking, I didn't check the details, so I don't know if you returned a check with your name and your subscription address or what. (What about people who don't have checkbooks?)
Anyway, the Snooze obviously can't be bothered to give a few extra red cents itself to its paid contractors, and is trading on some "Christmas Story" type legend that teens on bikes are delivering the newspaper, I guess.
Having lived in the Metroplex for almost all of the 2000-aughts, I can attest that such a coupon was NEVER in the Snooze back in the day.
And, it certainly never was a half page. (Which at least tied, if not ran solo first, for the largest ad in the Snooze.)
