Reporters and staff at the Boston Globe newspaper in the US have delivered the Sunday edition of the newspaper themselves today amid an ongoing distribution crisis.
The Boston Business Journal reports that the paper's largest union contacted editorial staff yesterday to say the paper was in 'crisis mode'.
The union urged staff to assist distributing today's paper after thousands of customers failed to receive their papers earlier this week.
CNN says more than 100 staff volunteered to help with the deliveries for the popular Sunday edition of the paper, which is delivered to more than 200,000 customers.
Staff and reporters pledged their help on Twitter, and tweeted updates from the team's overnight operation to deliver papers to subscribers:
I'm a Globe employee. I'm also a reader angry with 0 papers at home this week. I'll be out helping to get you Sunday's Globe. Stay with us.
— Fluto Shinzawa (@GlobeFluto) January 3, 2016
Tried to teach @EvanMAllen how to throw a paper and it ended up in the bushes. pic.twitter.com/kJ4M1w2D8g
— Milton Valencia (@MiltonValencia) January 3, 2016
It's a hell of a site -- pretty much the whole @BostonGlobe newsroom. Paper routes for a night. pic.twitter.com/uciAwplgbX
— Steven Wilmsen (@swilmsen) January 3, 2016
The unusual move comes after the paper switched delivery companies, leading to thousands of customers being left without their newspapers.
The paper itself reported that around 5% of subscribers did not receive their papers on Wednesday, and apologised for the disruption.
