The Denver Post is “vital?”
A few weeks back, my wife and I bought the local city Sunday newspaper for the first time in several years. We never read the Sunday paper, but we used to get it for the sale inserts.
We paid several dollars for it and it had no inserts. We checked the others in the stack and none had any.
Even stores now realize no one buys the newspaper.
It’s possible that the inserts were simply never inserted. This happens all the time. The inserter may malfunction, the person running it may have been slow to refill the hopper, or the driver may have neglected to leave the necessary bundles. Or someone at the retail outlet may have swiped the inserts for the coupons. You never know.