PRESS: Another service perspective

Regarding Edward Stafford’s Sept. 19 letter to the editor in which he complains about the lack of service in the delivery of the Coeur d’Alene Press. He offers one option of “those in the corporation, keeping a cushy desk chair warm, to get out of that chair and do something about serving the customer.”

Mr. Stafford, how do you know all this? Are you a visitor to the Coeur d’Alene Press offices? Even more telling of your arrogant ignorance, how do you know “those in the corporation” are not filling in at the loading docks and driving delivery vehicles — all early in the morning — to try to make up for a shortage of staff, a systemic problem throughout America? Afterward, they might return to their day jobs, having had very little rest — all to get your paper to you.

What the Coeur d’Alene Press is working to fix might just include putting those cushy living executives working on the production line to fit your reading schedule. For all you know, maybe those high-livers may be doing some low-level work beyond their job descriptions to satisfy your reading requirements.

Be thankful our community even has a local paper, Mr. Stafford. They are going away, and with these disappearances so is one of the most important bonding fabrics in our society: Local news that is actually fact-checked to keep us citizens informed in these days of irresponsible and inaccurate social media harangues.

UYLESS BLACK

Coeur d’Alene