Paper rounds...

shillelagh · 03-06-2008, 17:37

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7431224.stm

Ok im being nosy... but just read this on the bbc website about paper rounds - that newsagents are stopping home deliveries because they cant get the kids to do the paper rounds and they are also losing out to supermarkets etc. So did you do a paper round? How much did you get paid? I used to do one round mon - sat up over sherfin and down to lower stonefold on the other side and back down to rising bridge 6 nights a week for which i got the princely sum of £2. Then i'd do the same round on Sunday but i was my own employer - and get roundabout another £2.50. Some of the wages that they say they get now £20 a week i would have been oh so happy with that. When i started the paper round my dad stopped my spending money - he said i was earning now and that was that. Wasnt fair....

shillelagh · 03-06-2008, 17:40

By the way the poll is a multiple choice one - so you can vote for more than one!!!

emamum · 03-06-2008, 17:42

I cant remember how much i used to get, i know my dad stopped my spending money when i started it tho..

Bonnyboy · 03-06-2008, 17:46

Not a flippin' clue what I used to get paid

garinda · 03-06-2008, 17:51

My paper's delivered by the newsagent himself, probably because no one wants the job.

flashy · 03-06-2008, 17:55

i used to do mornings and nights and Sundays and the free weekly paper (not in the same year though) i used to get £4.50 a week for doing the free paper, there always seemed to be hundreds of them to be delivered, no wonder i have a bad back now...i think i used to get £5 a week for doing the morning/night/sunday papers

steeljack · 03-06-2008, 17:58

1961/62, the going rate in Gt.Harwood was 1/- per round , same for mornings and evenings , ...total 12/- (12 shillings per week) think the Saturday pink was 1/6d not sure about the Sundays didn't do them
Either Wednesday or Thursday mornings were the worst, all the womens mags came out that day, similar with Fridays , the TV and Radio Times .

onlyme · 03-06-2008, 18:00

to be honest, i think a lot of parents have concerns about the childs safety. At the end of the day, especially in the winter, you have children out in the dark, at regular times each day delivering papers. I wouldnt be happy with my son doing this, (when he's older obviously)

flashy · 03-06-2008, 18:04

i know what you mean Nicky, today isnt like when we where kids is it, more stabbings and shootings going on, i wont be letting Reece do a paper round for the simple reason that its too tying, i tend to get up some mornings and just decide to go somewhere there and then, if he had a paper round we wouldnt be able to do that, i will encourage him to get a saturday job when he's old enough though

steeljack · 03-06-2008, 18:05

seem to remember it was mentioned in another thread a few months ago about kids from the local area having to have a medical exam somewhere up near the old Accy baths if they wanted to have a paper route , if memory serves, the minimum age was 13 .

emzy · 03-06-2008, 18:07

I never had a paper round, the local papershop already had a paperboy and that was my brother!

But to be honest, I dont think that I would be too happy at my neice or nephew doing a paper round, just dont think its safe for them to be wandering the streets alone during the winter mornings and evenings

panther · 03-06-2008, 18:11

I used to help my brother when i was younger, but never got one meself.
These days people arnt safe anymore

....ya dont know whos lurking around the corner

pussycat · 03-06-2008, 19:44

i did a paper round ; started work at 6 in the mornin ; i would never let my children do a paper round ; to many stabins these;s day ;

West Ender · 03-06-2008, 20:04

Our newsagent is having a problem on Sundays as his Sunday paper deliverer gave up. He often delivers them himself, by car, but has to wait until he has help in the shop (grocers/off licence) before he can get out. Instead of reading the paper after breakfast it's more often after lunch.

This is a semi-rural area and not really frequented by knife-wielding or gun-toting nomarks. The daily (Monday to Saturday) paper boy delivers on his bike before going to the High School at 8 a.m. and the weekly free paper is delivered by a lad who runs the whole round, after school, in his shorts and singlet. Sunday mornings, though, they obviously all want a lie-in. I suppose I can't blame them.

'erindoors · 03-06-2008, 20:09

Phil and I have two sons who both have paper rounds, they work 7-8am, Mon-Sat and get £15 a week each.

Gail xxxx