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Don't see it much now in the UK. Most papers are delivered to your door by a van/car now (if an evening paper) and i haven't seen a morning paper delivered by a paper-boy for ages.
All the papers in our neighborhood are delivered by old creepy vans and a hispanic woman who constantly runs over the flowers at the corner of the driveway. . . .
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This sounds like my neighborhood! Only its couple, who glare at you, throw your paper close to your home and drive slowly down the street in an old van with no muffler.
This sounds like my neighborhood! Only its couple, who glare at you, throw your paper close to your home and drive slowly down the street in an old van with no muffler.
What should they do, fly down the street and toss the paper a mile away from your home? A lot of couples do routes because team work makes getting it done quicker since they have to sometimes put together/bag the papers. Most of these people are poor, and the paper route itself destroys cars. Maybe they're glaring at you because you glare at them when they drive by.
Anyway, a teenager or young boy can't do paper routes anymore. Adults only.
All the papers in our neighborhood are delivered by old creepy vans and a hispanic woman who constantly runs over the flowers at the corner of the driveway.
My kids (11, 8 ) run their own buisness and have for a couple years. Leaf raking in the fall, snow shoveling in the winter, mulching in the spring, and lawn watering etc in the summer. Not big jobs, but ones that lots of people don't find time for. The older child is the foreman and does the brunt of the work, and the younger is the runner who carries the tools and holds the bags. They split it 70/30.
They make about 30-40 a month, and about 2 (yard watering) to 12 (snow shoveling) a home.
I know this post is 6 years old but this is how I wanna raise my kids. Encourage responsibility and hard work and some self reliance. Kudos to your kids, they must be 17 and 14 now.
Just wondering, as that was technically my "first job".
Perhaps it's not as common now because fewer people read newspapers in the modern period?
If you had a kid, would you say advise that it's a good way to earn a little cash for them?
Sadly not as much. I know I used to work for the one in our area as a kid, but now they only hire people with drivers licenses that are 18 or older. I can't speak for other areas, but fear it's the same as here.
Haven't seen a kid route carrier in years and I fully support that. I had a route from ages 11-14 (in the 70's) and would never support or encourage kids to put into that position again.
It was a typical big city daily delivered 7 days a week, that offered zero flexibility, I had a rural route that was tricky in delivery and I doubt there were many routes that offered easy fill in's for any time off purpose.
I also had to "collect", go to each household every month to collect fees, that was a freaking nightmare. Amazing how many adults were ready to bully and intimidate an 11-12 year old kid.
Around here it’s older people doing it to earn some extra money.
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