{"id":212,"date":"2007-04-22T05:18:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/04\/22\/subscriptions-questions\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T05:18:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T13:18:13","slug":"subscriptions-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/04\/subscriptions-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Subscriptions questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thinking through how best to handle subscriptions. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/03\/18\/free-home-delivery\/\">free in-town idea<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Running the numbers through the Sustain-O-Matic has us with a price point around .50 per copy for a year&#8217;s delivery. Charter subscribers would be grandfathered in for some reasonable period.<\/p>\n<p>The main question right now is territory. I&#8217;m afraid that if we just open up\u00c2\u00a0 greater Carrboro and Chapel Hill, we&#8217;ll be sending a motorized vehicle hither and yon with not a lot in between. So, we&#8217;re trying to figure out what neighborhoods to offer delivery in and are seeking suggestions and feedback on delivery in general.<\/p>\n<p>So far, in addition to some of the southern neighborhoods &#8212; Heritage Hills, Yorktown, SoVille, Dogwood Acres &#8212; we&#8217;ve heard interest from Elkins Hills\/Barclay Road.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas and suggestions welcome here or by email to<\/p>\n<p>delivery at carrborocitizen dot com<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Ross, editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}