The Princeton Packet has been advised of this complaint.

now that I've noticed this one It seems all off the Packet are like this

any response from Packet? It's been 20 days

They have not responded on this issue. We will follow up with them.

Issue 5931825 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue.

wondering if any response since May 29

Public Works reviewed Packet honor boxes recently and found them to have current issues. An inventory of all honor boxes was made during the Beautiful Princeton Community Cleanup Day and Council's Public Works Committee provided the department with a list of boxes to contact news organizations about removal.

great

Tim Quinn, first these are not honor boxes, they are paid coin sales of newspapers. And it’s time for the town to remove them after repeated requests have been ignored by the Packet. Most importantly, the three Packet boxes identified here DO NOT have current issues and have not for months, even years! Enough talk. Act!

@Concerned: I worked in newspapers for many years and used the trade term "honor boxes." (Old habits are hard to break.) They were so called because when first installed, the honor system dictated that anyone who bought a paper took only one copy, as opposed to grabbing the whole stack and hawking them at a discount. When I checked the boxes on Cleanup Day, the issues were current. I haven't checked since, so perhaps there are boxes that are not up to date. Cleanup Day also revealed the presence of a NY Daily News box on the east end of Nassau that hasn't been filled in years. Public Works was advised to remove it.

https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/news-boxes.php

Ok, honor boxes. Still, I urge you to check the Packet near Jammin Crepes. Look at the date on the display copy, and note the lack of contents in the box. Ditto for the one in front of Chas. Schwab, and the one on Witherspoon at Gloria Neilson, near the corner of Spring.
Then remove them all.
As a former journalism student myself, and a longtime communications professional, it is glaringly apparent that the packet has, for the most part, abandoned Princeton. The boxes are part of it, but their product is the most glaring example of how little they are engaged with the town.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/18/us/supreme-court-roundup-law-that-allowed-mayor-rule-newspaper-racks-overturned.html

What is the difference between the Packet boxes and the NY Daily News box that is to be removed?
And what recourse does the town have for packet ignoring the removal requests?

@Concerned: NY Daily News has been advised that box will be removed because it is not functional. Packet will be contacted, as well. Packet sends a staff writer to Princeton Council meetings and covers town issues. The Nassau Streetscape Plan approved by Council (but not funded) anticipates a single depository for all free publications in one location on Nassau. This won't address the issue for paid publications, but will make things more tidy.

Thanks for persisting with me!

This seems to be one of those where no one will step up. The Packet is gone - now only thrown in your driveway once a week to immediately go to recycling. Public Works please take action - plus all of the horrific "free papers" they're not even legal in Princeton

still the same