2008/9/24 Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com:
With thousands of papers on backlog and limited manpower resources, it's probably far too large a task for them to start now. I'm surprised that they haven't looked into turning this into a profit source in some way, such as selling people newspapers from the day they were born
Thing is, this is impractical. You need to keep everything in storage, and you need to keep it all accessible, it's just that every now and again you send out a tiny bit of the collection. It's essentially all the downsides of keeping the collection but with a small amount of your running costs covered.
The companies that do this tend to operate on very small margins, with large warehouses, and concentrating on small timeframes. Everything pre-1900 would be junked, for a start...