hannah,sorry I didnt clarify that at my last post.I thought everyone knew.Yes,having the jotter along with the gazette was a good thing.It was nice to deliver both at once and be done.At the same time,it really sucks and makes for a long day.Towards the end of my route,I have delivered so many papers that I usually end up confusing the 2 and giving the jotter to someone who is suppose to get the gazette.Then I get a complaint that goes on my record.Some carriers did the papers separate,but I dont have that kind of gas money.

hannah,jotter and Gazette go together.We have to deliver both of them every tuesday.I get paid for delivering both.And,how are you lost? The only reason you even know me is because of the Gazette article for my "free stuff"Btw,thank you for your support on the blogs and your donation to our cause!

hannah,I deliver the Gazette,remember? Believe me, I know too well how many ppl dont like the Jotter nor do they want it. I see it everyday.But still,im ,well was, required to deliver it to get a paycheck.My fiance is finally back to work full time so we will be ok.

When the Jotter hit town, I'm sure it and the other freebie ad papers ripped a big chunk of advertising dollars from the Gazette and other papers. While the newspapers were busy finishing them off, that pesky Internet snuck up behind them and bit them in the butt.
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In a decade or two, kids will give you that funny look when you try to explain the Jotter or the Thrifty Nickel to them, just like they do when you try to explain the "payfone" to them.
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Perhaps in our lifetime, you will get funny looks when you refer to the good old days when printed newspapers or U.S. mail were delivered to your home. I have vague childhood memories of milk being delivered at our home, but I don't mention them in public, where I can be identified to the mental health authorities.

i have two on my porch right now.
by tomorrow there'll be four.
soon, the jotter will take over the world!!!!!!!!!

I too will be losing a large amount of income do to the Jotter being dropped. I understand that many people do not want the Jotter...or any of the shoppers...but what I have suggested in the past to folks who have mentioned this to me is...call the Gazette, and tell them that you don't want the item, and they will inform the carrier to stop the delivery.

Im glad everyone on here thinks this is funny. I just lost $150 a month off my paycheck! That is food or clothing or Christmas gifts for my kids.So,have a good laugh!

Don't want the Jotter, the Messenger, OR the Marketplace
showing up in my yard or the bottom of my driveway!
If I wanted a "free" "shopper paper" I would pick it up at the grocery store or gas station.
I'm tired of "picking them up from my yard and depositing them in the recycling!!
One down, two more to go!

For years, I swear that kid had it in for all of us. I always found it behind the bushes in front. The next door neighbors had several, one summer, on their roof! He couldn't hit a porch for "all the tea in China"... I caught him one time, and asked that he just toss it on the sidewalk so I could scoop it up but that lasted one week. I still have some papers that are part of the house foundation by now... I can't get down in there to clean them out!

Good riddance... one less piece of crap to try to clean up!

Bliss was smart to eliminate the Walworth Co. Week right away and incorporate it into CSI's Delavan paper. Don't know why it took so long to do the same with the Jotter. But they still deliver two publications (the Marketplace and the Messenger) on Sunday.

Finally they are getting rid of the JOTTER!!!!

I was a independent carrier contractor (paper boy) for five years and for three of those five years I had to deliver the jotter on Tuesdays and it was a hassle. I just wish the would have done while I was still an independent carrier contractor.

Craigslist didnt kill this, they did themselves. Some of the ad rates were just over priced. Had better luck selling stuff in teh Jotter than teh Gazette.

Plus has anyone ever tried to look on the gazettes online marketplace? Jobs take you to the jobnetwork.com, Auto takes you to swautofinder.com. What happened to the SIMPLE online classifieds they used to have? These other sites can be a complete PITA.

Craigslist kills another paper. Good riddance.

woody, 262 is the new area code that incorpporates the areas outside Milwaukee, which remains 414. 262 includes Walworth County and a couple of small bits of Rock County.
http://www.wisconline.com/wisconsin/area...
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It's well known and acknowledged that Craigslist specifically decimates the print classified ad markets where it competes. Autos, real estate, and other vertical markets have several competitors. It's a very serious problem for newspapers everywhere, because classifieds were once a reliable revenue source.

The Jotter - RIP.
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I delivered the Jotter to over 200 neighbors each week a long time ago...my mom drove me downtown to pick-up the bails from a basement window, then we rolled, rubberbanded, and crammed the tubes into my bike baskets.
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I could flip the Jotter the length of a driveway while peddling full speed and hit the front porch every time.
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Now, in my old age, I never bother with the classified ads from our local papers here - the font is way too small.

Sorry not to have a sarcastic comment to make, but I'll miss the Jotter.

My fondness for the Jotter comes from my memories of my grandmother, who looked forward to the rummage sales. Armed with a Jotter and a few dollars in her purse, we'd drive from sale to sale on hot summer days in her big Oldsmobile, me reading the circled sales aloud to her from the creased paper, my forefinger dark with ink, tracing the words. My grandmother wasn't necessarily looking for anything in particular but pretty things, and items that struck her own nostalgia. Now I have my own nostalgia to appreciate, and I guess the Jotter was a part of that, another incremental piece of my own history now vanishing, and soon to be forgotten.

This is bad news. I depend on the Jotter, and other publications to start my fire everyday.

Will the bad news stories ever end? There isn't much left to close up.

So I won't keep chewing them up with my snowblower? Good. The Jotter used to be thick enough to beat off a burglar. Now it won't kill a fly. Save a tree.

Why are half the classified ads from the 262 area code? Are those from a different paper that bliss owns?

Hannah... We are still supposed to get that? I haven't seen a marketplace in over 6 months!

now get rid of the messenger....put everything in the gazette, but use the marketplace as the replacement at no charge

do you people in janesville have nothing else to do than complain about where your jotter was put,and how your street dosn't look like the 4th of july, 2 hours after a snowstorm.

Craigslist might be the next place for all your advertising needs. Unfortunately people miss out that 15% of craigslist ads are scams

I'll miss the Jotter.

But where will I get my 7th copy of the Farm and Fleet ad each week?

One less weekly to blow all over the neighborhood.

Craigslist is better than all of them. its free and online

it used to be available in grocery store entrances a while ago... now, you'll be lucky to find it in a small handful of local gas stations... I'm starting to wonder if it's going to wind up being a case of goodbye Jotter; hello, The Onion... never know anymore, seeing how Janesville seems to be modeling itself after Madison/Rockford as far as urbanization...

Wouldn't papers like this be better suited to be distributed in places like the entrances to grocery stores, restaurants, and other public places? It would save them money paying people to deliver and they could probably cut down on the number of papers they print because only people who actually want to look at the ads or sale flyers can pick them up. It seems that's what most "alternative" free papers in larger cities do. Oh well....at least there's occasionally some good Papa John's coupons in there....

Well I can't say I didn't see this coming.

I always wondered why we had three newspapers with the same things in them. Granted some had different stories but the classifieds were always the same.

we cut a piece of wood and put in there so they couldnt do that anymore, most here now just throw it and the messenger on the ground even to the house s that have no one living in them , then here comes the telephone books , thrown on the ground, i ve often wonder why cities , townships , dont come up with ordinances that prevents this , i would think this would be considered littering

OK, stuffed into the newspaper slot built into my mailbox. There are routinely several sale flyers and other unsolicited newspapers stuffed in there each week. If they are not removed, they just continue to stuff more in there until they come out of the back and eventually fall on to my lawn.

shouldnt be stuffed in your mailbox at all , the mail people dont deliver it

I will miss the Jotter. Lately it has become a shell of itself. They missed the boat when Ebay came online. You used to be able to buy anything for sale in the Jotter. Now they have about 20 items, except for rummage sale season. I wonder what happened? Doesn't anybody sell anything anymore?

Does this mean one less unwanted paper stuffed in my mailbox each week? GLORIOUS!!!!!