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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Fri 6 Mar 15:42
My parents worked on a farm with long hours and low pay, so regular pocket money wasn`t something I ever got or asked for. When I was 13, I got a morning paper round. I had around 60 customers and was paid 10 shillings (50p) for Mon - Sat and 4 shillings (20p) for the Sunday. Many customers bought 2 or even 3 Sunday papers and the bag weighed a ton. 😰
That might not seem like a lot, but it was just 2 bob (10p) for kids to watch the Pars back then. My son did a paper round for a year in the mid 90s and earned considerably more than I did, but newspapers had increased dramatically in the intervening years. Do we still have paper boys/girls nowadays, and if so, how much can they earn per week?
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Fri 6 Mar 15:44
I`m amazed when I see physical papers nowadays. I suspect it`s mainly older people buying them. The Press is much thinner than it used to be and is mainly adverts.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Fri 6 Mar 16:25
The press hasn`t been the same since they downsized it in my opinion.
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Topic Originator: DJAS
Date: Fri 6 Mar 16:50
I was £7 for Mon-Sat. They don’t have any round our way nowadays there isn’t enough to demand to a newspaper
Predictor league winner 2012/2013
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Topic Originator: parsfan
Date: Fri 6 Mar 16:55
Fridays...Press day in the late 70s. The bag was more than twice as heavy as any other day and the ink just oozed off of them so you came home looking like you`d done a shift down the mine.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Fri 6 Mar 17:00
Aye GG there are still paper boys and girls around my town most on bikes .. but some getting driven around by their Mam or Dad at breakneck speeds :-o))
Was never a paper boy masel .. but got a Saturday job delivering the butcher meat .. no cold storage on the bike .. 9 bob for the Saturday .. but had to clean all the machines .. ham .. mince .. dripping .. et al
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Fri 6 Mar 17:49
Did a morning and an evening paper round, the latter was the sports papers.
Best time was Christmas for the tips, the guy in Queensferry Road must have been a millionaire, very generous!💰💰💰
Thought I was doing alright with wages from Elders till I covered a round down the Married Quarters, some negotiations were required.
And no OMO jokes!🤔🙈
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Topic Originator: twin par
Date: Fri 6 Mar 22:23
Remember the press being so large,that you had to put on the floor to read it!😆Your arms just about fell off,trying to hold it up!
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Fri 6 Mar 23:15
Did the Camdean round for a few years for £4 a week.
Loved it apart from the Sunday, heavy bag day.
RS McColls binned me as I wouldn’t deliver to a house with a mad dog in the garden 3 weeks running.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Sat 7 Mar 08:44
Used to do McColls in Dalgety Bay, think there was about 10-15 of us and we got about £12-15 a week in early noughties. Was 7 days a week though!
Will concur about the Sundays - brutal - 2 bags jam packed and unable to get half the papers through the doors!
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Topic Originator: JTH123
Date: Sat 7 Mar 10:22
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Fri 6 Mar 17:49
Did a morning and an evening paper round, the latter was the sports papers.
Best time was Christmas for the tips, the guy in Queensferry Road must have been a millionaire, very generous!💰💰💰
Thought I was doing alright with wages from Elders till I covered a round down the Married Quarters, some negotiations were required.
And no OMO jokes!🤔🙈
Can mind of Elders but not where it was. Was it at the Parkgate shops?
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sat 7 Mar 10:40
Presumably at some point the old saying `he looks like he`s had a hard paper round` will become obsolete!
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sat 7 Mar 15:33
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JTH123, Sat 7 Mar 10:22
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Fri 6 Mar 17:49
Did a morning and an evening paper round, the latter was the sports papers.
Best time was Christmas for the tips, the guy in Queensferry Road must have been a millionaire, very generous!💰💰💰
Thought I was doing alright with wages from Elders till I covered a round down the Married Quarters, some negotiations were required.
And no OMO jokes!🤔🙈
Can mind of Elders but not where it was. Was it at the Parkgate shops?
Elders at Parkgate just up from Clydesdale Bank, next to fish shop.
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Topic Originator: KAPP-Par
Date: Sun 8 Mar 20:39
Used to sell/ deliver the sporting post on a Saturday night back in the day. It was brilliant we’d get dropped off around all the pubs. even the bingo hall in Cowdenbeath/ lochgelly having to wait between games to sell the papers, then into the racewall where we’d get to see the banger racing. It was amazing paper round that’s for sure
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sun 8 Mar 23:49
Quote:
KAPP-Par, Sun 8 Mar 20:39
Used to sell/ deliver the sporting post on a Saturday night back in the day. It was brilliant we’d get dropped off around all the pubs. even the bingo hall in Cowdenbeath/ lochgelly having to wait between games to sell the papers, then into the racewall where we’d get to see the banger racing. It was amazing paper round that’s for sure
I did both the Sporting post and The Edinburgh Pink Paper.
Had a van though that my driver Ramsay Kessler drove me around the pubs mostly Steeelend, Saline, Oakley and these places.
If Rangers lost, I knew it’d be a bad night lol
Bobby Robertson former Pars player would always buy one in Limekilns though as I was never without my Pars scarf.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
Post Edited (Sun 08 Mar 23:50)
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Mon 9 Mar 13:37
had couple of different ones. Helped my cousin with his occationally when was a shop on corner of Townhill road/Lennie street (cant remember name of it). Had a weekend round from Headwell shop when Kevin Barnes owned it, horror round of headwell road/royal scott way/Broomhead park/broomhead flats. Moved to deliver from shop in town covered down brucefield, around town and up to Barbour grove. Was very well looked after.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Mon 9 Mar 17:44
I remember your dad and his sidekick. I lived on Urqahurt Farm for a couple of months and they let me help milking the cows.
I had a paper round for short spells in the early 70s in Baldridgeburn. I did that for a break from the earlier rises to deliver milk.
We were up at 4am and running non stop til 8.30, getting changed in the van and dropped of at school. Did that every morning through 2nd year to 5th year.
We effectively ran at least a half marathon every morning, carrying crates and baskets.
We were fit as f...
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Fri 13 Mar 07:05
Ramsay Kessler and Kevin Barnes, now there are a couple of blasts from the past. Ramsay was of Swiss extraction, I believe. He ran the West End Sunday League team for many years. He also kept selecting himself when he was in his 60s, allegedly, much to the consternation of his teammates. 😀
Kevin Barnes is much younger than me. He once approached me for a game of badminton at Carnegie Leisure Centre, just as I was coming off the court after a game of doubles. He explained that his opponent hadn`t turned up and he`d noticed I was a left hander and he didn`t get enough practice against such players. I agreed to stay behind and we played 2 competitive sets. I lost both 15-6 and must have left about 2 litres of sweat on my side of the court. I complimented Kevin in a backhanded way by telling him he`d obviously played the game before. "I`m the Fife U-21 singles champion", he replied. 😀
Anyway, back on topic. Does anyone know any kid (or adult) who currently has a paper round in their neighbourhood and how much he/she earns. I`m just curious to know if their earnings have the same buying power as my 14/- (70p) per week had in the late 60s.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: Johan_Cruyff
Date: Tue 17 Mar 16:41
Loved my paper round in North Queensferry - Lied about my age to get started and never looked back. (Started when I was 11)
I soon figured out if I started 15 mins earlier than suggested I could catch the milk float doing the rounds in the village and hop and off as needed. Was a great laugh
Sundays were awful going to Gordon Browns house where he got every broadsheet - I needed a bag just for him. Great tipper at Xmas tho !!
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