Paper Boys.

[Abdulmajid]

I have just paid my paper bill after about three months and think I have been UNDERCHARGED for the service. I only have a Saturday Delivery.

Without informing you how much a delivery is, how much do you pay?

I have two papers delivered on a Saturday, The Daily Mail and The Guardian, both of which are fairly bulky. Also I am about a mile from the newsagent so the paperboy has a fair walk, I guess.

Do paperboys receive a set wage or a commission on how many they deliver?

I would hate to think he is under paid.

[ChuckFickens]

Normally it's commission,

worked for the local rag and our delivery agents (not allowed to call them paper boys or girls anymore!!) got paid 6.8p per paper. if they had a long round which involved a lot of traveling then we would also put a couple of pounds "cycle allowance" on top of the wage just to boost it up a bit.

[johnny.5]

my daughter gets �10 to deliver 200 free newspapers a week but she has leaflets too she gats 50p for 200 A4 size leaflets and �2 for 200 small booklets ( I normally do half my g/f a quarter and her the other quarter )
however i do object at large company,s such as IKEA expecting 200 of their heavy catalogues to be delivered for a meagre �2 when each catalogue weighss about 3 times as much as the newspaper

[terambulan]

Am not surprised ur undercharged with that choice.......but practice philanthropy for the boy......

somewhere it says: alms are returned 10fold?

[theonlyone]

Our local newsagent pays the girls and boys
�15 per week ..the delivery charge to the
customer is �1.50. a week ..they are all in
small area ..the outskirts of the town are
delivered by car ...Joe.. never thought you
would be a Daily Mail reader !!!