The general public has no idea just how difficult delivering newspapers can be. Aside from the financial difficulties with subs dying off, and cancelations...the dangers of the job make it a hard sell. I hope you guys are still going strong today! I am a part of Capital City Press in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
I'm a times news Magic valley carrier. I love my paper route. Twin falls is a town of about 45,000 people. I've delivered papers in rain snow and high winds! My cutoff time is m-sat 6:00am. 6:30 am on Sunday. Sunday and holidays are very busy! Yes I've tossed papers on roofs and carports! From being in a hurry! Like you video.
I haven't seen a newspaper delivered in my area in over 15 years. But back in the 90s they used to drive by in a pick-up truck and 2 guys would take turns throwing them out the back as they passed each house without even slowing down. One time a guy came by and asked if I wanted to subscribe to the local paper for free. When I said no, he got all upset and was like "how come you don't want it? It's free!" And I was like, "you're just creating extra work for me to pick up the paper and throw it in the trash. Would you like to me come by your house every day and throw trash on your driveway?" After that, the bastard still delivered the paper to my house every day. I suspect he got paid more from advertisers the more customers he had, or he just couldn't be bothered to remember which houses didn't want it.
These guys are in Sacramento, California, delivering the Sacramento Bee. I've worked with one of them, and this video is hilarious. The pay rate here is only $0.12 daily, $0.20 on Sunday, and $0.08 for other products (Wall Street journal, New York times, San Francisco Cronicle, etc). What completely kills this job...7 days a week, 365 days a year. It costs $3.00 per bag of rubber bands (approx 900), $3.00 for bags (approx 100), and they charge you $4.00 for complaints. Basically if 1 person out of 33 call and complain, you just drove around delivering papers for fun and at your own expense.
We only porch on request, like when a customer is disabled or elderly. Everything else goes on the driveway. I throw about 180+ on a slow day (Monday/Tuesday/Thursday), and have over 350 on Wednesday and Sunday, and also a Sunday B route (ads only) with another 280. I assemble in the car whenever possible, even on a Sunday, because it saves me A TON of time and space. My routes are anywhere from 1.5-3 hours long, depending upon the day, and the amount of alternate publications I'm delivering along with my main paper. Our routes are emailed to us, and most carriers in my DC use a tablet or their smart phone and scroll as they go, myself included.
+Molly Triantis What I've done even if I don't have to... is to do a street or an area very well for a month and see if you generate tips. And rotate to a new street the next month... maximize the tips...Sometimes it's worth it to get out of the car, sometimes it isn't. I had a really good area years ago, but I got hurt and lost it... but I just got another great route within the last year. They're not all equal, so finding out what routes are good is important at every distribution place..... then you can't be shy about getting one when it's opening up.
Why would you ever fold it on the crease your take the crease horizontally then roll it a lot quicker and easier to throw and easier to read for the costumers
this looks like a carrier route if they all have to be porched. a motor route you just throw from the car. I have some special requests for porch only or inside the door but it doesn't happen mainly because most people have special requests and then don't put a light on so I can see walking up their steps, no light no porched paper, and for $30 a week 7 days a week it isn't happening.
These are apparently NOT morning newspapers, ours get picked up whenever available after 1am and have to be delivered by 7am (most times we don't get them till 3am). We have 4 routes and they take approximately 5 to 5.5 hours to deliver (4.5 hours if we really hustle). We average about a minute per paper, driving all over town and 5 miles out to another town to deliver. The majority of our papers are thrown in darkness hours, and people are just to cheap to turn on porch lights, so we have to carry flashlights to see where to toss them, cause if you don't get them right in front of the door or where they request them, the idiots won't find them, and will call us later (when finally resting) asking where their paper is. Well, if we could see where it goes, we might know where it is, doofus. Then you get the morons who have friends who also get the paper across town, and we usually get bitched at by one of them, because one called the other saying they got their paper 2-3 hours before the other. We aren't driving Santa's fucking sleigh, we can't deliver them all at once, morons. Smh. These guys are a joke. They should try 320+ papers every day, with 4 routes, and in darkness rather than daylight hours. Any idiot can find addresses and toss papers in daylight hours. We would create our own video, but it's kinda hard to see in the dark.
I threw papers on a bunch of different routes (around Birmingham, AL) and never did them like this. I guess how you do it depends on where you live. After being out of paper delivery for several years I'm just about to get back into it again, but with a paper I'll only deliver a couple days / month (instead of everyday). I just wish it didn't destroy my car. Every car I've used has been destroyed.
+James Shelnutt It is different depending on the region, country... In Canada it looks like they have to put them all in the mailbox. You're not supposed to do that in the U.S.A., that's government property and for mail only. There are a couple of cheap companies that pay a lot less than the owner of the newspapers would, so the delivery varies in how well you deliver them....
Every customer's different... People don't know but when the customers complain.... On the Carrier we get charge out of our pocket so this video is total bull shit!!!😡
Bruh I want my paper at my porch . I get my paper stolen everyday by people passing on the sidewalk and taking it. Yes it's less liability to the company or person in a world of cancel culture when they throw it on the driveway but still dislike paper being thrown where people can steal it
If a customer has a disability or is elderly then I would throw it porch other than that I would just throw it high up in the driveway.. some customers just call to complaint just to get credit.. really dumb cuz the carrier gets charged for all them complaints
Candee Hart they just leave money in the box that we put it in or they send it to the distribution center where it is put in our mailboxes or added to our pay check
What do you guys get per paper? It should be .50 and $1.00 on Sunday for doing them to the porch like that! The routes around my area, if you can't get near enough to the door with the car, you throw it on the walk, or in the driveway. Some people don't like it, but they pay .15 and .30 on average, so..... no way do people get out of the car for that kind of money.
Turtlehands I charge the people who I need to get put for an extra 25 cents. Unless they have a real reason like being disabled or elderly and hard to walk to the box at the end of their driveway
1982-85 we did our routes on bicycles. My papers were delivered to a school steps and I would sit there and band, insert or bag them. All my friends had routes in the area too. Sometimes when you finished early, you’d go help one of them out, so you could get to the donut store before you had to go to school. The worst part was having to collect your money. Door to door. You had to pay for your papers first and then what ever you collected after that, was your paycheck. Some people you’d have to cancel because they never paid. Sucked because you got hosed there. We were also responsible for growing the route. So, we would knock on doors and try to get new subscribers. Also, back then Sundays were a bitch! At 12-13 years old, you had to put some mustard on it to get it to the porch from the sidewalk. Fun times. Every kid should’ve had that experience.
why dont you put them together when your driving down the road lol like everyone i know does my agency has about 110,000 a week i do 890 sundays and i would not have time to band them at the dc
+Aaron Brown Yeah, you do them as you go, plus you don't get out of the car unless you have to! A good delivery person can do 150+ per hr. but that also depends on how spread out the customers are.
+Turtlehands Oh, and that's delivering most of them to the door.... 150/hr, some people throw them right over the property line and can go much faster.. I go for tips, so 150/hr is fine in my area.
I run a decent size area about 8.5k sundays total cant wait for December this year I'm up to 1100 myself now most of my area home run in the 700k so tips are great lol
you guys could deliver a lot faster if you use a scooter in which you can get close to the doors and deliver the papers without getting off. I am in Denmark and I deliver around 300 papers a night using an electrical scooter. it only takes me around 2 and half hours
I want to know how you get 300 papers (like on a Sunday) onto a scooter? I average 300 a night and on Sundays I have 350 and it takes up half of my SUV
I d never be a paper carrier again. Its not worth it, and we also has to pay all the expenses with the car our of our pocket. No way I d have gone into it if I knew its not worth it.
Whats your take home pay after complaints & supplies are deducted at the end of the month? I have a six routes with a little over 200 papers. routes are small. ready to give them up
Whats most annoying when there is a complaint by a complete idiot how papers were not delivered two nights in a row, yet when I check the address during the paper route the papers I threw on the driveway are not there. hmmm
+Sean Gallagher It can be very profitable if you can go fast and get a good tipping route. I know a husband and wife team that made 20,000 in Christmas tips alone.
+Sean Gallagher You get them 3 ways.... You put Envelopes in the paper once a month with your name and address on them... You get them when they pay for the paper, and include it there. You get your envelope on the door where you can see it.
I don't know what these guys get paid, but I do 300 a night (Sunday a few more) and I get almost $600 a week. Which is great, but then take out for gas every week and then I only get $490 a week
Thanks for tip #1 I will start doing this on all six of my routes. Cause when it's included on customers bill it goes to our DC owner and it's up to him to keep them or pass them on to us. Guess what he does?
The general public has no idea just how difficult delivering newspapers can be. Aside from the financial difficulties with subs dying off, and cancelations...the dangers of the job make it a hard sell. I hope you guys are still going strong today! I am a part of Capital City Press in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
my wife bought an old Camry with 200,000 miles on it. she drove it 100,000 in two years and it still runs great.
amazing that guy Dan who is a passenger only has 1 leg, his right leg is fake and he still gets out of the car and runs
wow. good catch! didn't realize it.
I'm a times news Magic valley carrier. I love my paper route. Twin falls is a town of about 45,000 people. I've delivered papers in rain snow and high winds! My cutoff time is m-sat 6:00am. 6:30 am on Sunday. Sunday and holidays are very busy! Yes I've tossed papers on roofs and carports! From being in a hurry! Like you video.
with newspapers that small we would just take them with us and band them while driving
I haven't seen a newspaper delivered in my area in over 15 years. But back in the 90s they used to drive by in a pick-up truck and 2 guys would take turns throwing them out the back as they passed each house without even slowing down.
One time a guy came by and asked if I wanted to subscribe to the local paper for free. When I said no, he got all upset and was like "how come you don't want it? It's free!"
And I was like, "you're just creating extra work for me to pick up the paper and throw it in the trash. Would you like to me come by your house every day and throw trash on your driveway?"
After that, the bastard still delivered the paper to my house every day. I suspect he got paid more from advertisers the more customers he had, or he just couldn't be bothered to remember which houses didn't want it.
I rather read the news and events on the newspaper instead online.
The internet destroyed literally thousands of job's.
I'd wait out in the morning to throw it back at his ass
@colombianflag717 i know right.
Great video guy's thank you
Thank you 🙏 I’m starting today wish me luck 🍀
These guys are in Sacramento, California, delivering the Sacramento Bee. I've worked with one of them, and this video is hilarious. The pay rate here is only $0.12 daily, $0.20 on Sunday, and $0.08 for other products (Wall Street journal, New York times, San Francisco Cronicle, etc). What completely kills this job...7 days a week, 365 days a year. It costs $3.00 per bag of rubber bands (approx 900), $3.00 for bags (approx 100), and they charge you $4.00 for complaints. Basically if 1 person out of 33 call and complain, you just drove around delivering papers for fun and at your own expense.
We only porch on request, like when a customer is disabled or elderly. Everything else goes on the driveway. I throw about 180+ on a slow day (Monday/Tuesday/Thursday), and have over 350 on Wednesday and Sunday, and also a Sunday B route (ads only) with another 280. I assemble in the car whenever possible, even on a Sunday, because it saves me A TON of time and space. My routes are anywhere from 1.5-3 hours long, depending upon the day, and the amount of alternate publications I'm delivering along with my main paper. Our routes are emailed to us, and most carriers in my DC use a tablet or their smart phone and scroll as they go, myself included.
No, but I do work in a major market.
+Molly Triantis What I've done even if I don't have to... is to do a street or an area very well for a month and see if you generate tips. And rotate to a new street the next month... maximize the tips...Sometimes it's worth it to get out of the car, sometimes it isn't. I had a really good area years ago, but I got hurt and lost it... but I just got another great route within the last year. They're not all equal, so finding out what routes are good is important at every distribution place..... then you can't be shy about getting one when it's opening up.
Why would you ever fold it on the crease your take the crease horizontally then roll it a lot quicker and easier to throw and easier to read for the costumers
Joshua J RIGHT
How do you put your routes in order ?
I know buddy is in great shape this is so alsome and freeing on the nine to five
this looks like a carrier route if they all have to be porched. a motor route you just throw from the car. I have some special requests for porch only or inside the door but it doesn't happen mainly because most people have special requests and then don't put a light on so I can see walking up their steps, no light no porched paper, and for $30 a week 7 days a week it isn't happening.
***** I'm married I already do that
$30 a week? lmao I have a motor route. 4 hours a night. and I am getting almost $600 a week
@@nemopace2254 not florida
Here in Michigan Porch delivery is .27 cents and tube delivery along the road is .19 cents a paper.
wow! we're being cheated. need to move by you! whats your monthly take home after complaints & supplies are deducted?
These are apparently NOT morning newspapers, ours get picked up whenever available after 1am and have to be delivered by 7am (most times we don't get them till 3am). We have 4 routes and they take approximately 5 to 5.5 hours to deliver (4.5 hours if we really hustle). We average about a minute per paper, driving all over town and 5 miles out to another town to deliver. The majority of our papers are thrown in darkness hours, and people are just to cheap to turn on porch lights, so we have to carry flashlights to see where to toss them, cause if you don't get them right in front of the door or where they request them, the idiots won't find them, and will call us later (when finally resting) asking where their paper is. Well, if we could see where it goes, we might know where it is, doofus.
Then you get the morons who have friends who also get the paper across town, and we usually get bitched at by one of them, because one called the other saying they got their paper 2-3 hours before the other. We aren't driving Santa's fucking sleigh, we can't deliver them all at once, morons. Smh.
These guys are a joke. They should try 320+ papers every day, with 4 routes, and in darkness rather than daylight hours. Any idiot can find addresses and toss papers in daylight hours.
We would create our own video, but it's kinda hard to see in the dark.
I threw papers on a bunch of different routes (around Birmingham, AL) and never did them like this. I guess how you do it depends on where you live. After being out of paper delivery for several years I'm just about to get back into it again, but with a paper I'll only deliver a couple days / month (instead of everyday). I just wish it didn't destroy my car. Every car I've used has been destroyed.
+James Shelnutt It is different depending on the region, country... In Canada it looks like they have to put them all in the mailbox. You're not supposed to do that in the U.S.A., that's government property and for mail only.
There are a couple of cheap companies that pay a lot less than the owner of the newspapers would, so the delivery varies in how well you deliver them....
They still print newspapers ?????
great work for couple hours
You guys have to porch all of them? Jeez, they better be paying you guys a fortune
It's possible u could take the newspapers with u rap it at home n start it from home or need to go to Warehouse?
*wrap
I remember you guys. Writing a book now called "Above the Fold"
You southern states got it easy!
I wouldn't porch every paper. .that's too much. .just throw it on the driveway. .
Every customer's different... People don't know but when the customers complain.... On the Carrier we get charge out of our pocket so this video is total bull shit!!!😡
Yeah the thing is that some costumers want their paper's by the porch.
Bruh I want my paper at my porch . I get my paper stolen everyday by people passing on the sidewalk and taking it. Yes it's less liability to the company or person in a world of cancel culture when they throw it on the driveway but still dislike paper being thrown where people can steal it
If a customer has a disability or is elderly then I would throw it porch other than that I would just throw it high up in the driveway.. some customers just call to complaint just to get credit.. really dumb cuz the carrier gets charged for all them complaints
WOW! Can't wait until I make enough to BUY my very own NEWSPAPER!.... Just 27 more days and I can buy one :) ...oh happy day!! lol
I do it every Thursday
Like it and would do it but I’m not allowed to throw them.
how do customers tip their carriers??
Candee Hart they just leave money in the box that we put it in or they send it to the distribution center where it is put in our mailboxes or added to our pay check
Candee Hart We throw envelopes with our address.
Joshua J Alongside our newspaper
All porches. Crazy
What do you guys get per paper? It should be .50 and $1.00 on Sunday for doing them to the porch like that!
The routes around my area, if you can't get near enough to the door with the car, you throw it on the walk, or in the driveway. Some people don't like it, but they pay .15 and .30 on average, so..... no way do people get out of the car for that kind of money.
Turtlehands I charge the people who I need to get put for an extra 25 cents. Unless they have a real reason like being disabled or elderly and hard to walk to the box at the end of their driveway
Wish all carriers are running to the porch's/front door every day. But most customers doesnt want to receive paper that is tied with rubber band.
Damn I do this nowadays and the whole route is on our phone instead of a peice of paper
1982-85 we did our routes on bicycles. My papers were delivered to a school steps and I would sit there and band, insert or bag them. All my friends had routes in the area too.
Sometimes when you finished early, you’d go help one of them out, so you could get to the donut store before you had to go to school.
The worst part was having to collect your money. Door to door. You had to pay for your papers first and then what ever you collected after that, was your paycheck. Some people you’d have to cancel because they never paid. Sucked because you got hosed there. We were also responsible for growing the route. So, we would knock on doors and try to get new subscribers.
Also, back then Sundays were a bitch! At 12-13 years old, you had to put some mustard on it to get it to the porch from the sidewalk.
Fun times. Every kid should’ve had that experience.
I do this its not bad
I deliver 2 times a week for a month and get $100 for that month
What happens if y'all come across dogs on the porch would y'all stay in the car and throw the paper
why dont you put them together when your driving down the road lol like everyone i know does my agency has about 110,000 a week
i do 890 sundays and i would not have time to band them at the dc
+Aaron Brown Yeah, you do them as you go, plus you don't get out of the car unless you have to!
A good delivery person can do 150+ per hr. but that also depends on how spread out the customers are.
+Turtlehands Oh, and that's delivering most of them to the door.... 150/hr, some people throw them right over the property line and can go much faster..
I go for tips, so 150/hr is fine in my area.
I run a decent size area about 8.5k sundays total cant wait for December this year I'm up to 1100 myself now most of my area home run in the 700k so tips are great lol
Pull in the driveway and throw them! Why do you get out, you won't last too long.
Nearly every driveway was full of cars.
Cody Peck Exactly
you guys could deliver a lot faster if you use a scooter in which you can get close to the doors and deliver the papers without getting off. I am in Denmark and I deliver around 300 papers a night using an electrical scooter. it only takes me around 2 and half hours
I want to know how you get 300 papers (like on a Sunday) onto a scooter? I average 300 a night and on Sundays I have 350 and it takes up half of my SUV
@@nemopace2254you fold them to fit in your electric,it's quite space saving that way actually
Hmmm idk how to *throw* a *newspaper*
I'm in Hawaii I got 182 daily and 200 weekends
450$ bi weekly
i sure as hell wouldnt get out of my car
what if you screw up a throw or you can't throw it far/accurate enough to make it to a porch
I was too young. D and Van A were j of me.
I d never be a paper carrier again. Its not worth it, and we also has to pay all the expenses with the car our of our pocket. No way I d have gone into it if I knew its not worth it.
Why,,he has to run,,and how the way they pay to you
I live in Tucson.
Cool
That's a little bit
easy route I got 400 everyday and Sunday I got 500 papers LA TIMES
Whats your take home pay after complaints & supplies are deducted at the end of the month? I have a six routes with a little over 200 papers. routes are small. ready to give them up
Whats most annoying when there is a complaint by a complete idiot how papers were not delivered two nights in a row, yet when I check the address during the paper route the papers I threw on the driveway are not there. hmmm
I WISH DELIVERY PAPERS IS THIS EASY WHICH IS NOT ....."TRUE".....I SHOULD KNOW! WEATHER...BAGGING...SHORT OF TIME!
Running and porching the papers huh? You must stand behind the counter and sell the single copy for the stores too huh. lol, jokers.
this is probably the easiest job ever
😂😢
Wtf I havent seen rubber bands in a long ass time.
Actually I never used them...
U drive slow.....
And is all of them porch?
How is this even profitable?
+Sean Gallagher It can be very profitable if you can go fast and get a good tipping route. I know a husband and wife team that made 20,000 in Christmas tips alone.
+Turtlehands how do you get tipped throwing newspaper out your window and driving off
+Sean Gallagher You get them 3 ways....
You put Envelopes in the paper once a month with your name and address on them...
You get them when they pay for the paper, and include it there.
You get your envelope on the door where you can see it.
I don't know what these guys get paid, but I do 300 a night (Sunday a few more) and I get almost $600 a week. Which is great, but then take out for gas every week and then I only get $490 a week
Thanks for tip #1 I will start doing this on all six of my routes. Cause when it's included on customers bill it goes to our DC owner and it's up to him to keep them or pass them on to us. Guess what he does?
LOL THAT SUCKS