Tashyboy
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Me mum and dad have. He turned up yesterday in a VW Passat at 10.35 and delivered it. Good pay nowadays it seems.
Paper boys, anyone still got one.
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Bunkermagnet
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My paper shop has given up with paper boys and girls. The owner now does all the deliveries himself every day, knowing that the people will get their papers on time every day.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
There's still a lot around here .
Not that we use one, I can probably count the number of daily papers I've ever bought on the thumb of one hand....
Not that we use one, I can probably count the number of daily papers I've ever bought on the thumb of one hand....
a B&B up the road does, they get delivered in a car. i think the kids mum runs him round
Wilson
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Plenty round my way, I had one for the days I worked from home, had planned to read the paper whilst having my breakfast - reality was they sat unread as I was too busy looking after a toddler or working during breakfast, so I cancelled it.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Don't have one (I'm about 2minutes walk from the shop) and not aware of any around us.
Khamelion
Tour Winner
The newsagent where I was a paper lad got sold and turned into a hair salon, there's not a newsagent on the estate now, but the little general store sells magazines and papers.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Wonder if a boy or girl would do what I did back in the day - £2 a week for a 7 day week and up at 5:45am so I could get home for my dad finishing breakfast and heading out to work - most houses took two weekday papers (usually Glasgow Herald and Scottish Daily Express) and Sunday weighed a ton...
Mind you - it was fun when I could use my sledge...sat on it whizzing downhill with my paperbag between my knees
Mind you - it was fun when I could use my sledge...sat on it whizzing downhill with my paperbag between my knees
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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Wonder if a boy or girl would do what I did back in the day - £2 a week for a 7 day week and up at 5:45am so I could get home for my dad finishing breakfast and heading out to work - most houses took two weekday papers (usually Glasgow Herald and Scottish Daily Express) and Sunday weighed a ton...
Mind you - it was fun when I could use my sledge...sat on it whizzing downhill with my paperbag between my knees
Sounds idyllic to be honest
£2 For just 7 days work!!
Your dad had something called breakfast!
You had a home!
Your dad had a job!
You lived and worked in Scotland!
You had a sledge!
You had a paperbag!
You kids don’t know you’re born
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Sounds idyllic to be honest
£2 For just 7 days work!!
Your dad had something called breakfast!
You had a home!
Your dad had a job!
You lived and worked in Scotland!
You had a sledge!
You had a paperbag!
You kids don’t know you’re born
That's how it was - and actually the £2 was quite a lot (well it was compared with my pocket money which was maybe 25p a week)
williamalex1
Money List Winner
That's how it was - and actually the £2 was quite a lot (well it was compared with my pocket money which was maybe 25p a week)
25d, old pennies Hugh, my first wage in 1962 as an apprentice was £2, 10 shillings.
We had a paperboy with a VW golf , but he resigned last week age 18, he's taking a year out to travel, his younger sister has taken over his run.
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Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
Slab your post sounds like the start of the four yorkshiremen monty python sketch. 😂
Orikoru
Tour Winner
No idea. We've never bought a newspaper.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Not even the DM? Don't knock it until you've tried it
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
I was a paper boy.
One Saturday summers day I managed to do my 7am start paper round plus three rounds as a caddy. [50 holes to be totally honest.]
In the days of 2.5 hour rounds, 3 bags a day that was not altogether rare for the adult caddies
7/6 pence for my weeks wages from the paper round plus 22/6 for caddy work I was a 12 year old millionaire.
PS Newspaper circulation in Scotland is on a sharp downward spiral, no surprise as some of the rubbish they print is well beyond the pail.
One Saturday summers day I managed to do my 7am start paper round plus three rounds as a caddy. [50 holes to be totally honest.]
In the days of 2.5 hour rounds, 3 bags a day that was not altogether rare for the adult caddies
7/6 pence for my weeks wages from the paper round plus 22/6 for caddy work I was a 12 year old millionaire.
PS Newspaper circulation in Scotland is on a sharp downward spiral, no surprise as some of the rubbish they print is well beyond the pail.
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jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
They still have them where I live.
I remember doing it when I was young and in one road of 50 of so houses every body in that had their's delivered. The occupants of the houses were something to do with upper levels of the military or civil service. All uniforms or pinstripes and bowlers going off to the station after the papers were delivered.
My son did it before going to college and it was about two - three houses in every road.
I remember doing it when I was young and in one road of 50 of so houses every body in that had their's delivered. The occupants of the houses were something to do with upper levels of the military or civil service. All uniforms or pinstripes and bowlers going off to the station after the papers were delivered.
My son did it before going to college and it was about two - three houses in every road.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Need to use something to line the dogs crateIndeed it has it's uses
SwingsitlikeHogan
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LOL - I do recall very clearly my pocket money being increased from 6d a week to 1s. We had just taken in two student lodgers and that would have given my parents a little bit more money. I'm thinking that would have been about 1964. With my 6d I could buy my comic (Sparky - 5d) and some Fruit Salads (4 for a 1d). And that was it for the week. With 1s I could also buy a packet of crisps.
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BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Recall me and my mate pooling together the spares after the round to grab the offers/tokens. A pre screening of Rocky IV was one highlight at that age 😁
