I live in northern Indiana. There is a nice subscription offer for my zip code, for the Chicago Tribune. I can choose Sunday only, or various other weekday/weekend delivery packages. I have questions though, before I decide whether to subscribe, and which to choose if I do. I appreciate the help and opinions of any current subscribers. Thanks in advance.

If you live outside the regular Tribune delivery area as I do:
- Is your newspaper mailed to you (if no delivery person lives in your area)?
- Are the coupons in the Sunday paper different from those in the Chicago-area papers?
- Do you receive less coupons -- or none at all -- living outside the Chicago area?

If you live outside and do not shop in the Chicago area, do you find enough of interest to you, in the Tribune, to subscribe to days other than Sunday (for coupons)?

In your opinion, does the Tribune carry a nice amount of coupons... particularly in its Sunday edition?

Do you save a decent amount of money using the coupons you receive in the Tribune?

I realize your responses to these may vary. I'm asking since I have no personal experience of subscribing to this newspaper. I am considering adding it to my newspaper subscriptions, or maybe replacing one of them with the Tribune. I will call the Tribune circulation department and ask them a couple questions as well, but I have been given incorrect information about various subscriptions in the past, from these offices, so am getting the thoughts of others, also.

I know one of the local grocery stores sells the Tribune on Sunday, except it cost at least a buck more. The ads and coupon inserts are inside a clear plastic sealed bag. Never purchased a paper, although I've came across Sunday Tribunes left at Burger King or McDonalds later in the day.

My attitude is there is a free newspaper that are fair to decent at stocking me up and there are recycle containers that are money savers with a little time moving paper on my part.

The buses here do not run on Sundays, nor go to the recycling facilities, so I need my newspaper(s) to be delivered to my home. Our only free one here is a sad little excuse for a newspaper, and has no coupons. I seldom find a leftover Sunday paper for sale on a Monday, or extra coupons at the library. I wish I could use these different free or low-cost ways to get extra coupons, but unfortunately it isn't possible at this time.

Thanks for responding, Kas. Other subscribers?

Go to a local gas station/convenience store that sells Sunday papers from a surrounding bigger city and ask them if you can pick up the extra Sunday papers that don't sell. Here the Washington Post requires that the store turn in just the front page header with the date on it for credit. I go in after Tuesday and cut the headers off and give them to the owner who then lets me keep the papers. I could take just he coupon bags but then he would have to dispose of the papers himself and since he is doing me a favor I just take the whole thing.

The Trib's ads section is bundled in a plastic bag and varies by area. Typically there are between 2-5 coupon inserts per week in the Sunday paper (I think this week had 3).

This might not apply to you but I recently purchased the Chicago Tribune on Sunday while I was in Wisconsin and the inserts were very very thin. There were few store circulars and no coupons.

If the Sunday Tribune that is sold in your area usually includes store circulars and coupon inserts, then you should be OK but I would check on this before subscribing.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for everyone's thoughts and suggestions. I appreciate your help.

I am in IL..in a far north suburb and have no idea what happens if you get the Trib in IN.

I have 2 subscriptions currently...the Trib has the best and thickest inserts of any alternative paper here in my area. They get the P&G (not all papers do), the KRaft insert (when there is one), ditto the Kelloggs (when there is one). I get Wed too for the Jewel and Domonicks ads (in case I don't get them in the mail or in store early).

I also buy 5-10 (or 20 ) extras of the Tribune for $1 each at the Dollar Store or Menards.

I remember we have a thread for cheap sunday newspaper subscription. I cannot find it. Anyone remembers where the thread is?

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