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Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink
Morning paper route at age 13, got up and folded papers at 3:30 am and 1-1/2 hours delivering on my bicycle before school and then "collecting" on Sundays. People ducking me pretending they weren't home or telling me they "don't have change right now" while I was trying to collect my lousy 50 cents (25 cents if you didn' get the Sunday paper).
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That's bullshit expecting a little kid to collect money from deadbeat subscribers.
By the time I got into the biz the billing and collections were handled by the News Agency; all I had to do was deliver the papers. If a customer didn't pay I'd get a "Stop" slip along with the papers and I'd know to delete that household from my delivery route.
Those machines that would automatically tie a string around a rolled-up newspaper were pretty impressive to a middle school kid.
