Originally Posted by
hockeyinsider
I consider it uncouth to take the newspaper out of the common breakfast room if there are only a couple of copies. If there are a stack of a dozen or two dozen then it's first come, first get in my opinion. But one or two copies? That's just plain rude. And shame on the hotel for not ordering more copies.
I wasn't referring to "stealing" the last newspapers. I meant that at some hotels, the newspaper stack is in the breakfast room, as well as at hotels with lounges there often being a newspaper stack in the lounge at breakfast time.
And IMHO taking the last copy is different at 5 pm than at 8 am.
Meanwhile, I've seen
a couple hotels which "hide" most of the papers under the lobby counter and only put out a few at a time on the counter. It "constantly" looks like there are only one or two left, but when you take the last one, then go by there 15 minutes later, you see a few more put out.
However, I would not assume this is the case if the stack is anywhere other than the lobby counter.