Latest Results Resulted In Lateness

Sometimes you can’t win for losing. In an effort to deliver the latest possible election results in Wednesday’s paper, The Spokesman-Review pushed the deadlines for its final edition to the limit of our production and distribution facilities.

Meeting the later deadlines and still delivering the paper in a timely manner was a gamble that required us to have a near perfect night. By now many of you know we didn’t get that perfect night.

A series of errors, technical problems and paper breaks during the press run left approximately 10,000 people without copies of The Spokesman-Review as of 8 a.m. Circulation Manager Maury Twomey reported that nearly 75 routes were delivered late.

“The South Hill was the hardest hit, although they were pretty well scattered around the area,” Twomey said.

The Circulation Department received 2,428 phone calls between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. asking about their missing papers. Twomey dispatched staff people from the downtown office to deliver routes where carriers had to go to school or their primary source of employment.

Our systems have been quite stable over the past few months and we had some of our best people working with the hope of providing readers with latest, best possible election report. We took the gamble and lost.

To those readers who didn’t receive their paper Wednesday morning, we apologize.

, DataTimes