Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania -- Ever wish you could buy your paper through salesman Dwight Schrute and receive customer service from Kelly Kapoor? Well, you still can't do that, but soon you will be able to purchase Dunder Mifflin paper.
The Staples-owned website Quill.com will now sell Dunder Mifflin brand copy paper under a licensing agreement with NBC Universal.
"The Dunder Mifflin paper packages will feature slogans that fans of the series will recognize, including ‘Our motto is, Quabity First' and ‘Get Your Scrant on,'" wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Georg Szalai.
Dunder Mifflin is the fictional paper company in the NBC show "The Office" where Dwight, Jim, Pam and until recently Michael Scott make a living. The show is a huge hit and just about everyone who has ever seen the sitcom knows the name Dunder Mifflin.
"Quill.com will sell Dunder Mifflin brand copy paper as part of a reverse product placement deal," reported the Wall Street Journal. "The goal: To sell more paper at a time when hard copies are increasingly going out of style."
While It will be nice to finally write my sempai memoirs on official Dunder Mifflin paper, I'm afraid I won't be happy until I can actually stay at Schrute Farms and wake to the crackling sound of Mose cooking fatback bacon on a Foreman Grill at the side of my bed.
E-mail: jclyde@ksl.com
