🚀 go-pugleaf

Sadly I've lost my cat. Decided to post LOST adds in the LA Times 
(Orange County Edition) & The Orange County Register. Much to my 
delight, as a community service, the OC Register offered to post my Lost 
Pet add for FREE (4 days). I wanted it to run for at least two Sundays, 
so I eagerly paid $11.00 (3 lines) for 2 weeks (2nd week free).  The 
Times (my paper!) eagerly charged me $30.00 for the same add (same time 
span).

I was taken by the Register's caring offer for a free ad (which I did 
not take - I paid). It reminded me of a time when people and companies 
cared.

Mind you, It's not the money, I'd gladly pay $1000.00 to get my pet 
back. I did place the ad with the Times as well as the Register (I want 
my Cat), but after discussing my distaste for their lack of community 
with the Times' Classifieds & Circulation departments, I canceled my 
subscription.

Seems their Bureaucracy is too big, their employees too unempowered. But 
mostly, their upper management (leadership) too insensitive.

[if you lose your pet, place adds where ever you can .. the point of 
this posting is to get other's to drop the Times to see if "as many," we 
can influence big business to care about the communities that keep them 
viable).