Paper round anyone?

SNICKERED

SNICKERED

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This time of year makes me think of Christmas tips...managed to get £40 once. Amazing considering I got £3 a week for morning and evening delivery plus Sundays😬 was 14 at the time,,,,slave labour !
Anyone else had a paper round?
 
I used to. £1.80 a week I got for morning/evening Monday to Saturday. 15p a round 😁 I never normally bothered with the lucrative Sunday round and it's 50p pay day 🤭
 
£2.50 a week at Linthorpe newsagents in 1978. Quite a hard round morning and evening, Sundays were a killer 🚴‍♂️😱
 
Yes works out at about 40 pence an hour, did both walking and bike round, amazed I wasn't knocked off my bike carting 40kg of papers over shoulder, blame bad back for it now......zero health and safety.
 
SNICKERED said:
This time of year makes me think of Christmas tips...managed to get £40 once. Amazing considering I got £3 a week for morning and evening delivery plus Sundays😬 was 14 at the time,,,,slave labour !
Anyone else had a paper round?
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Hardest job I've ever done and didn't last long at it. They weren't happy that I wasn't available every Saturday evening to deliver the Gazette's and Pink's.

The paper boy in our area completes his round in a van - must pay well. (y)
 
I got £3 a week. That was only Monday - Friday. I find it hard to believe I got up at 0600 everyday before school for £3 a week😂

I used to dodge the 'extra £1' I would get for a Sunday due to all the fecking inserted extras. Also used to hate anyone who ordered the Telegraph or other broad sheets as they weighed a ton with all the extra stuff.

It was handy for reading Match or Shoot without paying. Also remember some bloke who used to order Razzle every month. Defo had a butchers at that 😜
 
£5.25 a week back in the late 80's, managed £60 quid one Xmas as I'd take over my brothers round also so I got the two rounds worth. Used to quite enjoy doing it.
 
S7DiscoDown said:
I got £3 a week. That was only Monday - Friday. I find it hard to believe I got up at 0600 everyday before school for £3 a week😂

I used to dodge the 'extra £1' I would get for a Sunday due to all the fecking inserted extras. Also used to hate anyone who ordered the Telegraph or other broad sheets as they weighed a ton with all the extra stuff.

It was handy for reading Match or Shoot without paying. Also remember some bloke who used to order Razzle every month. Defo had a butchers at that 😜
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So true bloody Sunday supplements,had to divide round in two,returning to shop for second half as I couldn't carry it all.
Had to make do with amateur photography mag for my jollies.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
£5.25 a week back in the late 80's, managed £60 quid one Xmas as I'd take over my brothers round also so I got the two rounds worth. Used to quite enjoy doing it.
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It was like a right of passage older brothers passing down the rounds to you, hopefully they had wrangled the easier round to pass on,they were like gold dust.
 
Used to have one and I got paid 7 pounds a week. When I'm home like now and walk around the village (Great Broughton and Kirkby) I always think back to my paper round and the people I would meet as I walk past the houses I used to deliver to. Tips varied, a couple of nice old ladies used to give me a tenner each but my next-door neighbour who we never liked once gave me just a 20p piece!
I used to deliver the Herald and Post too, horrible round, near enough every house in the village, I got sacked from that one as I used to burn the papers when I couldn't be bothered to do it.
 
Briefly, then a dog attacked me while I was delivering to the house next door to it, I was off ‘work’ for a few days, when I went back the newsagent had given my round to someone else 🙄
 
Yep, had to earn my pocket money from my Mum & Dad somehow. They owned newsagents in Eaglescliffe and Stockton over the years. Morning, Evening and Sunday Rounds from the shop at Eaglescliffe, went out again on the odd occasion when someone failed to turn up. There was always a gathering of the locals for the Pink on a Saturday, those were the days. Moved on to a weekend Milk Round for the neighbours buisiness when I was a bit older. Did a stint for Jacksons Bakery as a van ladin the summer before getting my apprenticeship at British Steel. No regrets at all, mind it put me off cycling for a lot of years later. The customers were always generous at Christmas, I think reflecting how come rain or shine they always got their papers.
 
I had a paper round when they started building the new houses on the Ings estate in Redcar which grew week on week when people starting moving in. I remember having a moan until Xmas came around and I made about £50 in tips, which in circa 87/88 was a **** load of money to a 14 year old.
 
One of my rounds took me to a terraced street that is no longer there. They knocked it down to build the A66 flyover at the Yarm Rd junction, still think about that when I pass the spot.
 
SNICKERED said:
So true bloody Sunday supplements,had to divide round in two,returning to shop for second half as I couldn't carry it all.
Had to make do with amateur photography mag for my jollies.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought they were heavy. Especially with a bag swinging about on a Raleigh Burner BMX👍
 
Yeah Sundays were a killer, especially when your bike was a 3 speed Raleigh Hercules weighed as much as a ship, but built to last!
 
S7DiscoDown said:
I got £3 a week. That was only Monday - Friday. I find it hard to believe I got up at 0600 everyday before school for £3 a week😂

I used to dodge the 'extra £1' I would get for a Sunday due to all the fecking inserted extras. Also used to hate anyone who ordered the Telegraph or other broad sheets as they weighed a ton with all the extra stuff.

It was handy for reading Match or Shoot without paying. Also remember some bloke who used to order Razzle every month. Defo had a butchers at that 😜
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I was never lucky enough to deliver any "gentlemens literature" but can still vividly remember riding my bike straight into the back of a parked car while I had page 3 opened up on my handlebars 🤕
 
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