P and C wants your feedback

Ahoy,

A few days ago I fired off a missive about my frustrations with The Post and Courier.

The following is my posting to Pierre Manigault and Ivan V. Anderson Jr.

Good Morning,

As a life-long newspaper reader, I'm about to cancel The Post and Courier. Specific reasons include:

1. This month's unannounced subscription increase. I discovered the increased fee this morning when I lodged a complaint against late delivery.

2. Dropping of popular columns like GMLc, public editor, and Sunday's backyard columnist

3. Out-of-date comics' pages. Most strips ran out of new ideas several decades ago. There hasn't been a new Peanuts in this millennium. By keeping these dinosaurs (B.C., Cathy, Garfield, etc.) you're denying new cartoonists an opportunity at expression. (No, I'm not a cartoonist nor do I know one.)

4. The dearth of local news coverage. By the time the paper arrives, I've read the wire stories online - usually the previous day, occasionally several days earlier. Thursday's edition is my favorite but even that divides local coverage into too many segments. To me, local includes most of the tri-county area.

5. Tuesday's paper - why waste the ink and paper? The supermarket inserts are nearly as voluminous.

6. E-Edition is unusable. Have you tried the e-edition reader? In graphics mode, it truncates the stories; in normal mode, it presents plain, unformatted text.

7. The unstoppable growth of the Steroid, er Sports, section. In Sunday's paper, the A section is 14 pages of mostly news-free ads while the Sports section is 14 pages of mostly ads-free sports.

I realize that all newspapers are struggling, but I believe there is a vital need for a paper that covers local news thoroughly while providing an ad outlet for local businesses. I suggest that you dump the wire services and reallocate your massive sports department into meaningful local coverage.

Is the sparse local coverage and editorial page worth nearly $15 per month? I'll let the subscription people know my decision.

Sincerely,

Dennis