Wrong to have home delivery of paper on Sunday?

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Would it be sinful to order home delivery just the Sunday newspaper because you wanted to receive the sales and coupons? My only thought is maybe having someone work on a Sunday (which in all likelihood they would be doing anyway) just to deliver monetary savings/consumer ads might be wrong, but I am not really sure. I would likely purchase the paper aftet Mass if it wasn’t delivered, but it’s less convenient, costs slightly more for the year I believe, and someone is still working then too.

I guess I’m getting wrapped up in the fact that I would like the paper for the sales and the coupons than for the news. I might occasionally go through the news, but would not be getting the paper if it wasn’t for the ads/coupons.

I am fairly sure that this is not sinful and is just a case of being scrupulous, but I am hoping to just relieve my doubts.
 
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Would it be sinful to order home delivery just the Sunday newspaper because you wanted to receive the sales and coupons? My only thought is maybe having someone work on a Sunday (which in all likelihood they would be doing anyway) just to deliver monetary savings/consumer ads might be wrong, but I am not really sure. I would likely purchase the paper aftet Mass if it wasn’t delivered, but it’s less convenient, costs slightly more for the year I believe, and someone is still working then too.

I guess I’m getting wrapped up in the fact that I would like the paper for the sales and the coupons than for the news. I might occasionally go through the news, but would not be getting the paper if it wasn’t for the ads/coupons.

I am fairly sure that this is not sinful and is just a case of being scrupulous, but I am hoping to just relieve my doubts.
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Not at all. Papers are being made and delivered on Sundays anyways, whether or not you buy one, so you’re not really creating extra work.

And the reason you’re buying the paper doesn’t enter into it.

Put it this way - I eat on Sundays. Sometimes I cook for myself, sometimes my mother or father cook for me. I could probably do well without eating (or at least without cooking) on Sundays - but I don’t. That fact creates extra work, either for me or for someone else.

does it matter? Should I be eating cold leftovers every Sunday for the rest of my days? Course not!
 
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Would it be sinful to order home delivery just the Sunday newspaper because you wanted to receive the sales and coupons? My only thought is maybe having someone work on a Sunday (which in all likelihood they would be doing anyway) just to deliver monetary savings/consumer ads might be wrong, but I am not really sure. I would likely purchase the paper aftet Mass if it wasn’t delivered, but it’s less convenient, costs slightly more for the year I believe, and someone is still working then too.

I guess I’m getting wrapped up in the fact that I would like the paper for the sales and the coupons than for the news. I might occasionally go through the news, but would not be getting the paper if it wasn’t for the ads/coupons.

I am fairly sure that this is not sinful and is just a case of being scrupulous, but I am hoping to just relieve my doubts.
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I hope not! I deliver the paper on Sundays and it is promoted particularly for the sales ads and coupons. Oh, and not to worry, my deadline for delivery is 630am, plenty of time to attend any Mass I want, morning or evening or even Saturday Night.
 
My parents own the biggest newspaper/magazine/book shop in the city.
Please, if you can get it yourself, don’t make somebody deliver it to you. People who sell newspapers don’t get an extra payment for that delivery, at least in my country. Perhaps it’s different in yours, but here it’s just an extra load of work that only benefits the nwespapers and the people, whereas the person who sells the newspaper gets nothing but more work on Sunday.
 
Popular Catholic Church Newspapers sell inside parishes on Sundays. What’s the difference?
Even Catholic newspapers use secular advertisers and with occasional coupons inside to help defer the printing cost.
 
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