How many of you Senior Citizens once had your own paper route?
Malcom asked:
How many homes did you deliver to, and how much money did you make?
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How many homes did you deliver to, and how much money did you make?
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May 16th, 2011 at 4:28 am
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So far the tally is: No, 0,0.
May 18th, 2011 at 5:25 am
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When I was 14.
That’s 50 yrs since,can’t remember any exact figures. Probably around a quid a week,that was for morning,evening and Sunday papers.
Think I started around 6:30 am,although I don’t think children that young were officially supposed to work so early.
It was all terraced housing and covered a fair area and most doors seemed to have letter boxes that you’d struggle to get a cigarette paper in
May 19th, 2011 at 3:41 am
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My friend Mari’s mom volunteered Mari and I to deliver Carlie’s papers on Sunday, he was going somewhere. Well naturally all 65 lbs of me was saddled with the giant papers front and back while Mari figured out the route, one end of town to the other and then do it again–we stated at 4 am and finished at 5 pm. I threatened she and her mom with death by torture if they ever made me do that junk again–pay, nope, Carlie got the pay and I got the sore feet n back. Once was enough!!!
May 22nd, 2011 at 6:50 am
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after we left the farm and moved to town, i had 3 paper routes at the same time (morning, evening, sunday); in today’s dollars it was pretty good, but my earnings went into the family purse
May 25th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
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Back in the middle 60’s I had several morning paper routes. Got up at 4:30 and was finished by 6:30 to go to school. At one time I had 222 customers. I made on the average 38.00 a week but at Christmas time one year I got over 200.00 in tips. Sure was different I was pushing a grocery cart early in the morning waking up every dog. It was amazing.
May 27th, 2011 at 2:55 am
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I did, but was not a child. It was after my son was born and I needed money and a part time job that was flexible. I had around 350 addresses, and I made a few hundred a week.
May 29th, 2011 at 5:01 am
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I tried to, and I went to the Detroit Free Press (my Aunt Audrey took me there), but I was told that you’re a girl, and girls couldn’t do that.
May 31st, 2011 at 4:52 pm
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I delivered the Louisville Courier Journal via a beach cruiser bicycle in a five mile loop in Lexington Kentucky in the mid 60’s.I think I had 40-50 customers and made 60.00;maybe 100.00 during Christmas.
I always will remember having to get up at 3 a.m. to stuff the Sunday paper with the flyers.And I’ll remember the snowy days when the roads were too dangerous for delivering via bicycle,my Dad would drive me on my route.
June 4th, 2011 at 3:49 am
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For a very short time I had a paper route. I didn’t last long in the job! It seemed as though I had about a thousand papers to deliver although it was probably more in the region of 100. The newspapers were already loaded by the newsagent into the bag. Sometimes there were not enough and, of course, the last customers on the route were the ones who didn’t get a paper. They were furthest from the paper shop and it took a long time to go back to the shop and get the extra papers I needed. I got yelled at a couple of times for being late in delivering the paper, and towards the end of my tenure as paper-girl I didn’t event bother to go back and deliver the paper. That caused a couple of problems for both the newsagent and me. I decided to quite before I was fired. I can’t remember how much I was paid but I do recall that I didn’t think it was anywhere near enough. Mine was a weekend-only route and I learned pretty quickly that I valued the time more than the money.
June 4th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
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Back in 1942 I had 78 customers, made a penny on the daily and 3 cents on the sundays The daily sold for 3 cents the sunday 10 cents.
June 5th, 2011 at 7:38 am
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I didn’t but I used to help my brother with his. I also helped a friend deliver papers. I don’t think they let the girls do it back then.