Death to the Paperboy =_=

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I know that the adults that deliver to the store I worked at (I can understand, since they delivered three bundles a day to us, let alone other stores) delivered at 7:30 and we opened at 8. In my old apartment, we got the pay paper subscription from our landlord. They delivered sometime between 10-12, when I was in class, and I think the earliest we ever got it was 9:15-ish when I was getting ready to leave.

That apartment was a block away from the newspaper office, and the guy that delivered lived next door. They told him by 11 am and he was fine.

In our apartment now, they deliver the cheap/free newspaper (I think it’s something our landlord got us, a cheap subscription) and it cmoes at about 10 in the morning. In the summer, it comes a little earlier, around 8:45-9. I notice that the people delivering it don’t even get out of their car, just throw it from the window. I also notice that sometimes it hits my porch steps, sometimes it hits my car, and sometimes it’s against the curb on the edge of the road…

I don’t know about child-labor laws though, so that might be my answer…

Brendon

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Yeah - we have all had threads like that.

Just another thought about why the age of 14 year old paperboys might also have come to an end…the odd people on the route.

I recall on more than one occasion two different men on my route would regularly show up at the door wearing only a towel, or just underwear and seem to want to chat a little longer than most of my customers. At the time it just seemed like I was always catching them going into, or coming out of, the shower - but in retrospect, maybe there was more to it.

Plus, I can imagine if anything funky did happen, I am not sure how liable the newspaper as employer would be. Just a thought - but that might also have something to do with it.

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I know the feeling. From time to time a collection agency will call for my sister who hasn’t lived here in years. One time I told one she no longer lived here and to please stop calling. His response was “call you again tomorrow, CLICK!”