A blog for Los Angeles Times press operators says Sunday circulation has dipped below a million.

“My career at the Los Angeles Times began on August 3, 1972, and the Sunday circulation of our newspaper always surpassed the million mark my entire career,” Ed Padgett writes. “This unfortunately changed on Sunday June 7, 2009 when circulation eased below one million copies.”

He says that, last Sunday, the paper distributed 584,310 West edition newspapers, 404,352 East edition newspapers, for a total of 988,662.