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Originally Posted by outahere

Having worked in the newspaper business for several years, perhaps I can shed a little light on how this happens.......

At most newspapers, the Travel section, comics, flyers and any other section that is not "current" news are usually printed and assembled mid week, and the flyers are inserted by a machine, not manually. So, it is entirely possible that, sometimes, some flyers get missed and some get multiple copies inserted. Where I worked they did random spot checks of the inserts, but that doesn't catch all the mistakes.

I know that doesn't explain rude behavior, but the flyer snafu does happen quite often.

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