Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.

From: "Tom Worley" <stkguru@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:22:14 -0400

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don't know how pertinent my experience may be, but when I subscribed to IBD
(back in the days before Daily Graphs Online was available, heck, the
internet didn't exist then, I don't think), my copy of IBD was faithfully on
the front lawn every morning the same time as the local paper. How come, you
ask? I live in Miami, and IBD (then just Investors Daily) had enough
subscribers in South Florida that they contracted with a local printer to
print the paper. And contracted with a local delivery service (same one that
delivered the local paper) to deliver door to door. Thus, outside of Los
Angeles, the quality of delivery seems dependent on two factors: the
availability of a cheap printer, and a contractual delivery service. I would
also suspect that the sharp reduction in advertising dollars being spent in
the past few years has curtailed IBD's local contractual services in favor
of mailing the paper (doesn't hurt that USPS keeps raising the rate for
first class mail so we can subsidize the system while they won't layoff
anyone, and bulk mailers continue to clog the system and create volume at
heavily discounted and subsidized rates).

What I don't get, especially since IBD is apparently still unable to provide
reliable daily service in many areas of the USA, not to mention the rest of
the world, is why charge so much more for an e version (then again, why not,
since people want the paper and IBD can't deliver reliably any way else??).
I believe that the paper must be totally in an electronic form at some point
before it hits the printing press. Therefore, the cost of distributing it
electronically cannot be very great. Why not just give subscribers the
choice of delivery form? If it means cutting down fewer trees to use paper,
that's good. It certainly seems to me that the cost of delivery would be
cheaper for IBD, so if they charged the same, their profit margins would go
up if paper subscribers choose instead the e-paper.

And they could always delay sending an e-paper to those with the free two
week subscription so it arrives right before they have to leave for work.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Lobatto" <jlobatto@nyc.rr.com>
To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.


I've got my own pet peeve and I live in New York City. In most of Manhattan,
IBD is delivered by hand early in the AM. Because of my zip code, although I
am just one block away from a hand delivery zip, IBD refuses to hand deliver
and mails it. As a result, 20% of the time it doesn't arrive until the day
after it's supposed to arrive.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Mendheart@aol.com>
To: <canslim@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: [CANSLIM] IBD Subscription..delivery.


> Canslimers,
>
> Can you help me with something.  I've consistently refused to subscribe to
a
> regular IBD subscription because they can't get the paper delivered on the
> same date as publication.  Get this...its only been going on for 5 years.
> They always make numerous excuses or that...'oh this is such timely
> info..reading it later doesn't make any difference.  Give me a break.
Now,
> another caveat...I live in Boise, Idaho.  I know we're not a major city
but
> believe it or not we're serviced by airlines...very successfully I might
add.
>  We've had one of the best economies in the past 10 years as well as
> tremendous growth and accolades...but apparently IBD cant get its act
> together.  I realize this is a bit off subject...I'm just venting.  Its
> simply the principle of the thing!  Thanks.
>
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