Who had a paper route?

I had a pipe route. I would skip High School and on the way home, help young stay at home brides with their plumbing. They even gave me a little walking around money too. I miss those days.

Sunny

 

Guy down the street from me, had a Murcielago until recently- now he's driving a Bentley. Anyway, he has these big passenger vans, with windows, but no seats- commercial sized, filled with these newspapers that look like Pennysaver type papers. I was told that his "job" is that he owns a company that prints these things and distributes them, god knows where. Every once in a while, a couple of those large passenger vans, lots of windows, no seats, are parked in front of his house.
The license plate on his Bentley reads: "Paprboy"

 

Payperboy 2 was one of my favorite Super Nintendo games.

My sister had a paper route that I had to do when she was sick or having babies. I also filled in for a friend who went on vacation once. It's a lot of fun to deliver papers at 3:30 AM when you're with someone else who's also tired as Hell and running on caffeine. Everything's funny at that point.

 

Egg route.

 

My parents and I had a paper route. We actually had 3 paper routes. We delivered over 1100 papers, 3 times a week. It helped us pay off our van. Gotta do what you gotta do to make ends meet. That was 10 years ago.

 

When i was 10 i had a paper route. It was when I grew up in Issaquah, Washington.. My mom or my friend's mom would drive us at 4 in the morning around the block. We would sit out the back and put out papers..

 

I had a Paper round(name in UK) also delivered milk.

 

I had a paper route from age 9 to 20, by the end I was making more throwing newspapers than I was working a fulltime job at a manufacturing plant. 7 days a week, I worked 3 years straight without a day off.

That was a long time ago..

 

i had a paper route too , i hated it !! my buddy delivered too and till this day 20 yrs later he still does it. he has a masters degree and does really great for himself working for a major co, but says he makes about 40 k a yr delivering. he dosnt want to give up the cash, says its easy money.his route is masive.

 

at the age of 16 i got my drivers license then got a job delivering auto parts. i loved it !! a new driver getting to drive all day in a co. truck racing around town and beating up on the truck. after about a month they said i was so fast delivering and did such a good job they wanted to bring me inside and work in the stock room. i guess they thought i would be fast stocking the parts, i said no way and quit.

 

chiming in. small local paper. all I can remember at this point was the black on my hands from wrapping the paper.

 

I had 3 routes as a kid. We had 2 morning local papers and one afternoon one. I spent 3 - 4 hours a day on my bike and made nearly $400 every 2 weeks.

One guy never paid his bill. I called my boss after the 3rd week and he said give him another 2 weeks, I did. After that my boss knocked so hard on this guy's door he broke the glass. The guy came running out and my boss told him "how this was going to work". I have never been in such a scary and funny situation in my life!

 

I had two of them........made about $50 a month combined back in the early 70's......big money for a 12 year old back then. Did one at 5am and the other at 4pm after school.

 

I had one when I was 14-15. It wasn't bad except Sundays when the paper was so big I had to make many trips to reload my bag instead of just two or three.

The biggest pain for me was collecting from people and hearing, "I don't have the money right now can you come back next week?". These were usually the same people who would complain if you were 5 minutes late with thier paper!!