Serving Western New York since 1968, Metro Group is New York State's largest publisher of free weekly community newspapers. Formerly The Metro Community News, the paper is now known as the Metro Source in Northern Erie County and the Metro Retailer in Niagara County. These newspapers, along with community-specific PennySavers published for readers in Buffalo's Southern Tier counties, are hand-delivered in a protective poly bag to more than 317,000* homes each weekend. Working with affiliated publications, Metro Group is able to provide this form of saturation delivery to over 500,000 households across the region and is the only medium in the market capable of providing advertisers with sub-zip code distribution, a process carried out by an army of more than 1,400 carriers (Metro's & affiliates' staff combined). In addition to its free community papers, Metro Group publishes the Springville Journal and The Sun, paid publications delivered to more than 13,000 subscribers each week. Beyond its diverse publishing operations, Metro Group operates three additional business units. Metro Press is a full service commercial sheetfed operation capable of printing a wide variety of forms, menus, collateral materials, office stationary products and much more. Reliable Mailing is one of WNY's largest mailing houses, offering a variety of highly customizable mailing solutions for domestic and international customers. Reliable Distribution provides advertisers with the ability to distribute product samples, flyers, booklets and other items along with Metro Group publications or as stand alone products.