Dozens of reporters and editors at the Globe are planning to pitch in with Sunday's deliveries due to widespread delivery problems for the past week.
Some staffers volunteered to do so, and it "looks like the offer has been accepted," technology reporter Hiawatha Bray told CNNMoney Saturday night.
The details of the plan aren't known yet. But there was a growing email chain on Saturday sorting out the delivery strategy.
"Yes it has come to this," columnist Farah Stockman tweeted, journalists "getting up at 4 am to do what a company evidently can't: deliver the paper."
Assistant metro editor Anica Butler replied, "Actually, I think we're supposed to show up at midnight to get our paper routes!"
Nonetheless, Felicia Gans, a metro reporter, said there were plenty of raised hands: "There are 65+ emails in my Globe inbox from reporters & editors, volunteering to deliver tomorrow's papers. So much love for Boston Globe.”
The Globe itself reported that the trouble started on Monday when the company switched to "a new delivery company."
In a story on Thursday, the paper said "missing papers" across the local area "prompted an outcry from readers, who vented on social media and overwhelmed the Globe's phone system with complaints."
According to Bray, the phone system "crashed" and reporters "found it difficult to call outside the building."
"Many readers got busy signals," she added. "One regular reader of my column managed to get through to me and begged me to do something. I and a bunch of my colleagues contacted our CEO and said that reporters were so concerned about the problem that we'd be willing to help deliver the paper."