Does your newspaper guy actually ...

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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put that newspaper near your door?

Nowadays the older adults,who cant throw that far, usually delivers it while still in his vehicle.
Now I gotta go out across the lawn and pick it up near the gutter ,if it rains he double plactic bags the paper.
Problem is when that happens,I gotta walk down the street to where it floated to,usually near the sewer...grrrr
 

We get a free copy of the local paper, from the town next door, which has the newspaper, such as it is, and then a bunch of store ads and flyers, it is in a plastic sleve.

It's delivered by a little girl who pulls her little red wagon around town. And she walks up to the house and carefully puts in on the porch.
 
They throw it onto my driveway, sometimes it's more on the sidewalk than the drive. They use rubber bands in good weather, and plastic bags in bad. Sometimes we get a soggy paper depending on the severity of the rain/snow, and cheapness of their bag. Our dog fetches it for us every morning.
 

When I first moved to Pennsylvania I picked up a newspaper motor route, throwing 400+ papers every day. I would pack the Bronco's front passenger seat area to the ceiling with papers and the overflow would go in the back cargo area. I'd have to stop 3 times during the route to replenish the front seat, and my wife knew not to wear white whenever we went out.

It helped me keep my throwing skills in tune, and I think I had one or two complaints in the several months I did it. A couple of houses were impossible to throw for, as they had a weird layout, so for those I just tossed in their driveways, but everyone else got their paper right on the front porch. Some of them required getting out of the truck, though, and I wouldn't want to have to pay now for the gas I used up every day back then, but at the time it was a needed income boost while I got my school going.
 
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I've never had one come even close to the front porch, most don't even make it on my land. They land in the park next door on one side or the vacant lot on the other. They pack 'em flat in plastic bags and they simply aren't as aerodynamic as the rolled up ones. They hit the air and glide off course like paper planes.
 
We would sit on the steps where the newspaper was printed and roll up the papers much easier to handle. I would stretch the paper bag strap and put it on the handlebars so that the papers were on the front fender and right in front of me. We didn't have plastic bags then and had to make sure the papers were put in a dry spot.

we had to collect all money ourselves and had a little tab we gave customer when they paid.No collect, no money for us.
 
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we had to collect all money ourselves and had a little tab we gave customer when they paid.No collect, no money for us.[/QUOTE]

My local paper charges me $4.00 extra to "deliver" my paper.
 
Our delivery person has a key to the condo building. All I do is open my door and it's there 365 days a year. Where I lived previously it could be anywhere in the yard, rarely the same place twice.

My subscription runs out Dec 31st and I'm not renewing. I have a favorite local channel for halfway listening + weather and usually catch most of Diane Sawyer. I'm a fan of MSN News on-line. I'm cutting back on expenses...probably the ONLY new year's resolution I'll keep.
 
I think the 'Net has killed a LOT of subscriptions - sitting down in your jammies and reading the news and weather online is just SO much easier.

... and more environmentally friendly, to boot! :D
 
SifuPhil said:
They're so heavy when you have to lug them to the curb, and they get wet and moldy, and the cat rips them up, and ...

... guess I should put this in the "Whiners" thread, huh? :eek:
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You may be whining, but it's the truth, and will mean far less PIA trips from my 2nd floor place.
 
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