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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
A few years ago my late husband and I did it. It took a lot longer than a couple of nights.
We were told to make return visits to people who were not home and had to get signatures from people every so often to prove we had been on their road.
Add the cost of petrol to that plus the hassle from people who wanted to know why the street next to theirs had their delivery the day before (or even earlier that evening), mad dogs which try to bite your hand off when you attempt to put a note through the door, having to go during the day to offices and factories, and finding a lot of demolished property (hadn't existed for years but no previous deliverer had reported the fact) and newly built property where they hadn't been allocated a copy................you could say it was a bit of a challenge. Oh, and shoe leather too. lol
We had terraced streets but they were garden fronted with steps up (anything between half a dozen and a dozen or more) so we had to come down one lot and then up the next one etc. That's probably why it took much longer.
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Signatures are not required now. Books can be left at the property, many people leave them on the doorstep, (although they aren't supposed to) and you wouldn't be expected to make return visits now.