LA Times now delivering everywhere – supposedly
This house has better luck, except for the window... Flickr photo via iamrob
When I first moved to Echo Park, I had just graduated from college and moved into the cheapest apartment I could find. At $550 per month and with a roommate I found on Craigslist, I learned (after moving in) that my very first, very cheap post-college apartment had a bit of a, well, cockroach issue. And then we found the hole the mice were coming through. And the street this first post-college apartment was on had a bit of a crime issue. Suffice to say it wasn’t the best living, and not all streets in Echo Park are like that, but it worked at the time.
(Note: My first day there, with my U-Haul parked out front, an LAPD car pulled up. One of the officers asked us, “Who’s moving in?” I replied in my usual bubbly tone, “Me!!” They shook their heads and continued on… a sign of what to expect perhaps?)
Whatever the cockroach issues or the crime issue, one of the things I could never solve, however, was the LA Times newspaper delivery. While I realized it could be due to my zip code or maybe just because my street was really that bad, that Sunday Times never arrived, and after a couple of months of calling I couldn’t get a straight answer from the LA Times.
One of my fave blog reads, Franklin Avenue, posted about this issue today and revealed that the LA Times is now allowing subscribers to “opt-in” on receiving the LA Times Magazine along with their Sunday paper. Apparently the Magazine was only available in certain zip codes, and, as the blog describes: “…but, ahem, apparently Franklin Avenue HQ isn’t in an upscale enough part of SoCal.” We feel ya!
So now those “undesirable zip codes,” as Franklin Avenue describes it, can no receive both the Sunday Times and the Magazine… That is, if you can get the Times to deliver in the first place.
Neither the LA Times or the NY Times will deliver to my address. As they put it “it is a closed street, we do not deliver to that address, too dangerous.” The NY Times says they haven’t delivered in years. While the LA Times said something about the delivery driver liking to take his wife with him and when he was pulled out of his car, it made hime feel unsafe for her. Apparently he has been forced out of his car twice. Nothing happened, nothing was stolen, but, the wife thing.
Lol,i think i lived on that street and now i live on an even worse one,i love your little moany articles about Echo Park because as much as i love living here i feel happy when i read somone else bitch about the issues lol,like the the post you made about the trash trucks that was funny and i totally related because i live next to a bunch of noisy elephants who wake me at 6am screaming every morning,i think they are drug babies,thats what my husband says….anyway.
Thanks again…i guess its lucky its not the old days when people delivered groceries or milk cos we would never see them either!!!
Thanks Aisling! This is my crack at trying to be funny and sarcastic on this blog, which hopefully comes across at least a tiny bit. It’s fun to be sarcastic!
Kerry: I never got the LA Times to admit to me that my street was too scary for them, they just kept telling me it was getting delivered but it wasn’t. Glad you got it out of them what was really going on!
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