Paper — Stockpiling Isn't the Solution

"I would not be surprised, given what we've heard about the Y2K problem, that there is some of that, just as a precautionary," Paparozzi adds. "God knows the price is right for doing it."

Stockpiling seems quite unlikely given the rock-bottom prices currently seen on coated and uncoated free sheet and groundwood. The good news is that, from a price standpoint, the readily available paper supply and a lack of across-the-board hoarding should prevent the millennium bug from artificially stimulating paper prices.