01-17-2018, 08:44 PM
(01-15-2018, 12:44 PM)grampahol Wrote: I remember my very first Journal Herald route.. The first week after getting up around 4am and delivering all those papers then going door to door Saturday afternoon to collect payments..at the end of the week I'd earned a whole whopping 10¢ .. I was pissed to say the least..lol About 8 houses on my route didn't get newspapers again until they paid me in full and even after then I didn't make much..
I always got paid for the Shopping news route because my dad was the managing editor..
When I started my route, unbeknownst to me, I was delivering to a house that wasn't actually subscribing to the paper. I collected every other week, so after two weeks of getting the paper, even greeting me at the door once or twice as I delivered it, the smiling elderly lady informed me on day 15 that, nope, she wasn't a subscriber. So I had to pay for her two weeks' worth of reading. Old bag
Didn't help sell me on the newspaper business.
