Guardian knot
This is the process for placing a death notice in The Guardian:
- spend 15-20 mins scratting round their website. Find nothing except 2 email addresses that look vaguely relevant (obituaries@, classified.advertising@)
- write to the email addresses
- when they reply, discover that actually you need a different address altogether: announcements@guardian.co.uk
- email your copy
- when you get an email response, phone a charming but slightly disorganised man as he grinds the details through a desperately slow online system. Oh, and they can’t do the accent in née…
This is the process for placing a death notice in The Telegraph:
- go to any half-relevant page & click the link
- fill in the form
- … er, that’s it.
Just how desperately does The Guardian not want several hundred £s? Nobody in need of this service is going to be having a good week…
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