Anyone had a “paper route” or know someone who had one, or was this just a tv and movie thing?

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Was this just a movie and tv thing? My mom delivered the press before she met my stepdad, and my grandma worked at the press at night, and met her second husband. Those were part time jobs.

But I’ve never known anyone who rode a bike, delivered papers like this in the mornings. Were they really paying kids to deliver papers past 1995?

 

[Problematic Pat]

Yeah I had one. Also worked for someone who had a delivery truck and before school we would make deliveries with my brothers.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

My boy in queens entire family had one. Their house used to get filled with papers on Sunday. He delivered on his bike his mom and sibling used a big van.

 

[P90]

My neighbor did yeah, he used to get the papers from a random dude that would buy in bulk and that was his job. Only lasted 6 months then a dude in a car did it.

 

[Elim Garak]

I knew people who had them growing up.

 

[maxamusa]

my kid had one In like 2015....its facts.......
we just watched the black phone 1 tho and thank god nothing happened

 

[King Harlem]

I had one in high school; there was no way I would've been able to do it without a car though. It covered too much area.

 

[ThisIsLife]

My friend from school had one from about 9 to his high school years (early-mid 2000s). I would see him some mornings dropping newspapers off from his Dad's car like 5-6am, before school.

 

[big bun]

My older brother had one. I had a couple homies that had one, too.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

easy money work back in the day. they would drop a stack in my building and i would take a cart and drop em off around the block. did it for papers and flyers.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I knew people who had them growing up.

Welcome back?


On topic I knew a breh who did this during the school year (back in high school).

He did it out of his car instead of his bike though

 

[L0Qutus]

I had one back in the day I used to deliver the "Progress Bulletin" when I was in Jr. High . One thing you learned delivering the paper was that the Sunday advertising and comics would be dropped off to the paperboys on Thursdays. I got to read the comics and know what was going to be on sale before everyone else (we were too broke to buy anything though ). I remember folding my papers up and watching Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Muppet Babies.

My quads were were rock hard when I was riding around my neighborhood

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

My next door neighbor did for a while as a kid.

 

[CHICAGO]

WE USED TO VISIT OUR
SIBLINGS IN ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN
AS KIDS AND THEY KNEW
A WHITE KID WHO HAD A PAPER ROUTE.

HE LET ME DELIVER FOR HIM
SOME DAYS AND GAVE ME THE PAY
FOR THAT DAY


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[Mandarin Duck]

By the time I was a kid Mexicans with a Dodge Van waking up at 3:00am already had this job on lock.