Did anyone have a paper round?

I had a round from aged 13 in north London back in the sixties. Delivered 82 drops 7 days a week & took an hour, Sundays took longer as I needed to go back to the newsagent halfway round as you could only get half the round in the sack. Even back then there was too much crap inside the Sunday paper.
I was paid the princely sum of fifteen shillings a week (75p in new money) most of which I spent back over the counter at the shop on sweets.
One customer had 'Parade' and 'Health and Efficiency' delivered so that brightened up one morning at least.
 
I did one when I was 13 about 6-7 years ago. Got paid £18 a week for a 30 minute route 7 days a week, which was quite a nice little earner for my age.

I remember I started it about 2 weeks before Christmas, on Christmas week half the houses I delivered to gave me a bonus of about a tenner, clearly they hadn't been paying attention to who had been delivering their papers all year :p
 
I used to do a sunday one, can't remember how many houses but it used to take me about 3 hours for a tenner (it was over quite a large area and i used to stop for a quick cup of tea at mine on the way past).

I remember one particular morning when it was pouring it down and I was completely soul destroyed after about half an hour. Then to my horror I discovered I had somehow lost my pay on the way home, oh it was awful.

Also remember posting a paper through someones door and it landed on their milk, smashing it and filling their whole porch up. Bet i was popular. Nothing was said but needless to say they left the door open for me after that!
 
My two eldest kids both deliver the local free rag one evening a week. They get between £10 and £16 each (depending on how many leaflets) for approx. 180 houses on each round. However, the streets they deliver are nice and compact so they can do a round in about an hour if they do it on their own, or 1/2 hour if I help them out with it (as I do sometimes).
 
I did a paper round that took about an hour on weekdays, about 3 hours on the weekends and got £35 a week for it and by the time I got back to the shop I was shattered, and I still had to bike to school XD. You got allsorts to deliver though, on the weekdays I delivered about 20 papers a day and the weekends I did somewhere between 60 and 80 (though in essence, on weekends I did 2 rounds)

One day I remember coming back and asking the bloke who I was working for where my bike was, apparently someone claimed it as theirs and he just gave them it (I still, to this day call bull)... Last week when I went to put some road tires on my bike, I saw the same bike outside the shop, I know it was the same because it had the same alu pedals I put on it in 2004.
For £10 on top of the tyres I managed to get the bike back :D
 
Never had a paper round, paper boy used to get battered where I grew up. Did wash up at a hotel instead, fancy weddings and stuff.
 
I Had a paper round when I was 11-14. I didn't get a lie in for all that time as I delivered Sunday newspapers too. My deliveries consisted of the Daily Record, Sun, Star and Glasgow Herald while Sundays consisted of the Sunday Mail, News Of The World, Sunday Post and Sunday Herald.

I had 70 deliveries to do each day which took me from one corner of my neighbourhood to the other and lasted one hour. Tips where varied depending on the customer with some giving me 50p and others giving me nothing but I received 3p per newspaper and made about £30 per week which wasn't bad for 1983.

I had two main problems with one customer who was sporadic in paying. Sometimes he would pay promptly on my friday collection night and other times the door would go unanswered but the twitching curtains would give him away. Complained like mad when I dropped him from my round and it took me over three months to claw back the three weeks worth of money he owed me. My other problem occurred on a few Sunday mornings, two Policemen would be in wait to demand some free newspapers before sending me on my way. It soon stopped when I took a note of their badge numbers and informed the Desk Sergeant at the local cop shop.

I used my money to buy comics and games for my 48k Spectrum. Lovely memories of thumbing through 2000AD, Eagle and Scream before playing Skool Daze and Sabre Wulf.
 
I had 3 paper rounds. While my freinds all got handouts from their parents mine have always taught me to work for my money, we never had much anyway.

One was a crappy free magazine with a load of leaflets, 200 a week, £15
I had one for 6 roads £16 a week and another for 11 roads at £23 a week.
Never got tips but I wasn't fussed, I was getting enough to buy cigarettes, beer and the occasional illicit substance. My parents didn't have a clue where my money went, good thing to they would have slapped me silly :D

Did that 12-16, then part time job at 16, it sucked but the money was better for the work provided in part time work.
 
Did a once a week free newpaper where you have to put the leaflets in the papers for about 6 years. Roughly £5-£10 depending on how many leaflets. Delivered to 120ish houses on my road. Was pretty handy having the extra money for less than two hours work.

Only bad things I did was avoid the houses which had dogs. Was always afraid they might bite my fingers off when putting the paper through the door.

One incident involved scaring an old lady. She was about to leave her house, the door was slightly ajar, so I waited until she fully opened it so I could give her the paper. She greeted me with a horrificly loud scream. So lesson learned, don't sneak up on old ladies.
 
I did 2 rounds of a crappy local paper - didn't get paid for leaflets and extra crap they used ot stick in... Some weeks it was 100+ pages like a flipping phone book

One paid 3.57p the other 5.27p

One week i didn't deliver them and dumped them in an alleyway, of course it happened to be the week they checked.

The rag i get delivered now is about 16 pages its more like a leaflet than a paper, bloody kids never had it so good !
 
I had one for 2 years when i was 14 for the local paper. Got £10 a week which was 6 days a week (twice on saturday for the sports suppliment on the evening).

Had to go 2 miles to get them from someones house (agent) then back again as I had the round just near my house.

I done one christmas but got £90 in tips and I only did about 30-35 houses! :D
 
I did one for a few years, did 2 rounds on a saturday and a sunday. Took me about an hour each day and I got £10. I used to live in a posh village and they only had The Times and Telegraph etc, which on a sunday were so big I had to refill my bag about 4 times, whereas on a week day I could get a whole round in the bag! Used to quite enjoy doing it actually, went round on my bike and listened to my minidisk player :D

I did a round for the free papers also, but they took the pee with how much they paid and for the amount of papers you delivered. I usually dumped 3/4 of them in the bin at home
 
I did a Sunday round when I was a kid, talking just over 15 years ago now and got about £4 to deliver 60-70 papers with all the supplements. I had to do it in a couple trips, as I couldn't carry them all in one go, I just measured it and it was nigh on 6km and took me a couple hours.
Hated it, but at least it paid for a few things.
 
Did it back in '89 or so....must have been 50-60 deliveries over an area similar to the one posted by DMpoole.

Can't remember what papers they were, to be honest i never really paid attention. All i remember is that it used to weigh a ton and by God i was fit at the time since i used to run most of it.
 
Would do a few miles, and a huge amount of houses (200+ I believe...Thursdays I couldn't lift the bag so had to carry that stupid trolly thing...' 5 days a week. All for £15...needless to say after week one I quit :D
 
I never had the obligatory paper round. Instead, I lied about my age and worked as a shelf stacker in the local offies. :)

It was only £2 an hour though - probably would made more just going for a bloody paper round!
 
I did a paper round for a few months... 29 Papers a day 5 days a week, £5 a week... parents had a go at me when I quit.. I was being robbed.
 
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