I'm hoping someone can find out and tell me when are the coupons in the sunday paper?
I know the sunday before a Fed holiday there are none( which is dumb, but I guess those folks need the holiday off too). But there are some sundays that there are no holidays in site and there are no coupons in the paper. I don't think no one's been rifling thru them, they're just not there to begin with.
Take today for instance. Palm sunday. Is there coupns? ( I haven't been to the store so I don't know yet.)
Next sunday I know there won't be any. It's a xtain holiday.
I would just like to get some clarification as to when the coupons are suppose to be in the sunday paper.
Thanks!

That's odd. The Washington Post always used to have coupons on Sunday no matter what! Of course, I can't physically get the post here, so I have to read it online, which makes getting coupons impossible. Oh..........for the days when I had time and energy to clip coupons and shop with them. Oh...........for the days when I was able to shop in an undistracted manner..................

I don't know that I've ever gotten a Sunday H-M without coupon inserts.

I'm wondering if maybe, because it's being delivered (assuming you're getting the paper delivered) out of state, that they're just not stuffing them into your paper?

I could be wrong, but it could be that coupons have to be inserted. I remember in the old days they'd have inserts that your local paper boy (or girl) would have to add to the regular paper upon delivery. Sometimes they'd fail to give the proper number of inserts so somebody would get shorted. Of course these days maybe they don't do that, but if inserts have to be placed it could be the person who delivers to your area is lazy.

weis still does double coupons. i go there every week. the coupon amount has to be under $1.00. martins does triples once a month...

Dragon
We go to Sheetz and get a paper on Sunday's. If we see no coupons in it we don't buy it. Today we didn't make it out of the house at all. The honey do list was massive so can't tell you about today's paper. We have noticed that their are more Sunday's near a holiday they don't put in coupons. One thing we've done and it may help you is to sign up for online coupons from the HM we get them all the time. We open the link and print them off and use them that way also. Check it out. I'll have to find the link and post it for you ok.

Dragon
I can't find the darn link. I'm still looking for it ok. It's in my favorites somewhere.???? I get an email offer when they come out with new coupon's. Should that come through first I'll post that link. But right now it's somewhere in my provider website. Who know's what I did with it. I alway's wait on the email to be sent to me and then click on the link to go to it. Print them off and go from there.

Dragon, if you get home delivery, you should ALWAYS have the coupons. If you don't get them, call the circulation department. Sometimes, all the papers at the single copy outlets (Sheetz, AC&T, etc.) do not include the inserts and coupon but home delivery should always have them.

no. I don't get home delivery. I was informed that they were being stolen. I say that because theres no way for me to know otherwise. My lane is 1/4 mile long and I can't see the box. We even did the white plastic cover over the front that was suppose to make it harder to steal. So, I don't know if they truely were being stolen or the driver just didn't feel like delivering mine. I think I was the only one on my road getting it.

Anyways, I was just wondering what the rule was for the coupons in the sunday paper. WHICH sundays are there suppose to be coupons?

I'll double-check but I think every Sunday paper has coupons. But sometimes they run out and those without are the ones that go to the stores andor boxes. The goal is to get enough in to put in every paper. But sometimes advertisers limit the run.

Dragon
Sorry for not getting back to you by now. Work called for OT. and I've been doing a ton of it. Anyhow When you type into the Heraldmail.com site. On the main page go to the bottom right hand side and you'll see the Coupon link. You will have to join to get them but it's free. I do and we get coupons simply by printing them. Heck the wife made me go to the store with her this morning. OMG... What a nightmare. What is it with you woman that know you need it but just can't pick it up and put the dawm thing in the dawm cart?????????? Ok I'm done my crises. Our bill came to $178.50 at Martin's on Wesel blvd. today by the time she was done with coupons We paid actual $$$ of $102.69 Ok so I kissed her a$$.

Wow it's amazing how little has changed in the 30 years since my best friend had a paper route and I used to help him out on occasion. Interesting to learn that it's because the advertisers place limits on numbers though.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...isn't that the old saying?

The inserts are done mostly by machine now BMIC. It's a cool process to watch.

The advertisers send a set number of inserts based on the readership in the zip codes where they want them to go.

I'll bet. Some years ago I met an old colleague who was working in Environmental Health and Safety for a major newspaper trade association and he had all sorts of very interesting information about the industry and how they do things.

I'd love to hear about that. Bet he had some stories.

I don't remember all of the details. We had lunch when we ran into each other at an all-day environmental seminar at some place in Baltimore and hadn't seen each other in years. But he talked about the kinds of paper that are used and how it is made, as well as the ink formulations, as well as some of the alternatives the industry was working on developing, all from an environmental and safety angle. It was really very interesting though probably 10 years ago and I forget a lot of the detail.

It's a very small world. I met this guy and his wife again about 3 or 4 years after that, when they happened to be on the same flight as my daughter's soccer team and I as we were flying out to San Diego for a big soccer tournament.

I don't know much about the ink except the black ink comes in a tanker and they unload it into an underground tank. It looks like a load of heating fuel.

The paper used to print the newspaper is recycled. It comes in these massive rolls that one person can move around on little dollies that run on tracks embedded in the floor. You just push it.

One of the (many) sad things about shutting down the afternoon paper is that people don't usually get to see the press run anymore. It ran at 11 a.m. when there was an afternoon paper. Now it starts up around midnight.

Well I think the ink is vegetable oil-based and as non-toxic as they can make it. It does come off on your hands and to an extent is designed to do so.... or at least it's designed to be easily removed so the paper can be recycled again. IIRC, the paper that must be used to accept color printing may be a slightly different formulation, perhaps having somewhat less recycled content (I remember there being something about it being not quite so environmentally-admirable, though they were working hard at solving that issue). And of course glossy inserts are either not recycled paper or else have much much less recycled content. Obviously the industry is constantly looking at all sorts of ways to increase recyclability and/or recycled content and/or improve the safety and/or environmental friendliness of the recycling methods used.

I was most impressed with the fact that newspapers have got to be one of the most environmentally-friendly products that any of us encounters, and most of us don't even realize it. They have been designed to be for a very very long time, in part because it saves a lot of money while saving the environment at the same time.

What part of , don't you understand.

Actually he might know because if it does require UV exposure to dry, the printing line probably has huge banks of UV lamps wth all kinds of safety warnings posted all around them.

I didn't know the answer to the UV question so I asked one of the press guys. Nope. Not UV.

I have to say that with the way the economy is going, that I'm very disappointed in the Herald mail for reducing the amount of coupons that are in the sunday paper. You should do more for the people of your community and add back what was taken and even ( IMO) add MORE for those of us who use and need the coupons.

also, as a side note, I found out this past sunday that the store where I buy my Washington Post is increasing the price of the sunday paper by a DOLLAR! That was what they were informed of when they got their delivery last week. The WP has also decreased their amount coupons, so that, combined with the price, I will NOT be buying the WP.

Aren't the amount and type of coupons dictated by the manufactures, as opposed to the newspaper?

I don't think so. I don't know. The Journal in Martinsburg has more than the Herald mail. Used to be the other way around. SO, it seems to me that the paper has some say in the matter. Why else would the amount drop in one and raise in the other?

I suppose a manufacturer could target a specific market with more coupons than another if they wanted to. Or they might have different deals with the newspaper companies. Please keep in mind that I am completely and utterly ignorant on the subject though

There's a lot of online site were you can print out grocery coupons. And you don't have to pay a dime.

True. Just watch out for spyware and such lot's of those places have them

That is so true but I do have a program running that blocks and delete spyware. It's all good. I use to buy at least 4 to 6 papers just to get the coupons, that's if there was a lot of coupons that I would use. Now they don't put in as many coupons as they once did.

In today's economy getting them Free is good.