D.O.P.-T. (Friday)

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The Sunnyvale Sun continues to be delivered in a very hit and miss fashion—it remains free but the Mercury News, which is now almost totally useless, abandoned the few remaining street boxes and stopped automatic delivery soon after its owner also acquired the Community Newspapers group, and wants people to subscribe to the MN to get it; delivery to non-subscribers is now on selected streets each week as a teaser. The carriers most often give it to major streets, but I've increasingly noticed that when they do give it to our street, they skip our house. Houses with several already there in various states of decomposition, such as the house next to ours that is two apartments almost always rented to Chinese-speaking families, get it. But we don't. Perhaps they confuse our driveway with that for the corner house on our other side, which gets it in its front yard; but the two driveways are separated by tall greenery (formerly also a wall) and have two different cars parked in them. So I really can't figure it out. I've had to filch a rain- or sprinkler-soaked and out-of-date copy for years now.