Did anyone have a paper round?

West said:
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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£1 a day... 125 papers... damn.

And nope, no paper round for me. Internet took my job.

Dhey took his jerb?
 
I did one when I was younger. Hated sundays as the papers were about an inch thick, and when they were in the 'sack' it must've been 4ft wide. I looked like Quasimodo walking down the road carrying the damn thing :(

On the plus side I used to nick orange juice and coke that the milkman left on the doorsteps :)
 
I had an evening and a Sunday round when I was younger. Was something like £6 for the evening delivering about 30 papers and £4.50 for the Sunday round.

I always seemed to get 2 or 3 Sunday rounds however as most of the time people hadn't turned up by the time I'd finished my round, so I was offered theirs aswell :).

Always seemed as though the people that got the large broadsheets had the smallest, thinnest letter boxes. Sometimes had to break the paper down into 4 - 5 parts just to fit it through.

Wasn't a lot of pay but funded my early PC habit at 14 :).
 
Yes, in the latter half of the 80's I delivered the weekly local rag.

I used to deliver 275 papers (and accompanying leaflets) @1.2p per paper per week. Worked out the princely sum of £3.30 a week :eek:
 
1p a paper for 197 papers a week, local freebie in the mid to late eighties.

Mum got really sick with a rare condition and I had to go live with my Dad for a few months, informed them that I couldn't do the round anymore but they kept delivering the papers and leaving pay packets, Grandad used to pop over every week and throw the papers in the garage and we'd call them every week to tell them to stop. Came home when Mum was better to a garage full of papers, a nice big pile of pay packets and still had my paper round lol.
 
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