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Subscriptions questions

We’re thinking through how best to handle subscriptions. The free in-town idea has worked pretty well, but we also have had to turn down a lot of people from outside Carrboro. We believe that home delivery is an important service for a community newspaper.

Running the numbers through the Sustain-O-Matic has us with a price point around .50 per copy for a year’s delivery. Charter subscribers would be grandfathered in for some reasonable period.

The main question right now is territory. I’m afraid that if we just open up  greater Carrboro and Chapel Hill, we’ll be sending a motorized vehicle hither and yon with not a lot in between. So, we’re trying to figure out what neighborhoods to offer delivery in and are seeking suggestions and feedback on delivery in general.

So far, in addition to some of the southern neighborhoods — Heritage Hills, Yorktown, SoVille, Dogwood Acres — we’ve heard interest from Elkins Hills/Barclay Road.

Ideas and suggestions welcome here or by email to

delivery at carrborocitizen dot com

Thanks,

Kirk Ross, editor