I was just googling around as I occasionally do for anecdotes about the ins and outs of being a paper boy, and what did I find but this current article about a pair of younger-than-most-of-the-ones-around-here paper boys:
http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/99999999/NEWS/906150326/Newspaper-carriers-deliver-more-than-the-news
The major reminding-of-me thing about them (besides the fact that one of them does his route on rollerblades, which is another thing that I occasionally pipe dream of, but that's a whole 'nuther story), is that for one month of each year they donate 100% of their earnings during that month to charity.
Hmmm; that's like about 8% of their total earnings for the year. It might even be even more than the I'm-still-trying-to-figure-out-what-the-percentage-is of 2009 tips that my route (in a whimsical, joint action between me and my Route Associate) gave to the St. Judes Children's Hospital.
So: I'm happy to learn that it's not completely unheard of for paper routes to be able to afford to give money to charity. I know it's rare, but, one of the reasons that I think I'm going to keep on doing it while I'm at it is that it might make good propaganda fodder for producing a chain reaction of more tips! Explosion In 2010!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Response to "Time to Lose Time" leaflet
This weekend the Times unleashed, to its carriers, a leaflet entitled "Time to Lose Time". Well thanks for the info, several days before we were no doubt going to figure it out ourselves in a timely manner as we've successfully done every year, about how next Sunday, March 14, will be the date to set our clocks forward in preparation for.
Kind of ironic for the Times to be reminding its carriers instead of the other way around. It was us carriers who were all standing around at the distribution center waiting for the Times to wake up bring the bundles of papers, on all three (2007, 2008 and, to a marginally-lesser extent as I vaguely recall, 2009) "spring forward" Sundays that I've been a carrier.
Kind of ironic for the Times to be reminding its carriers instead of the other way around. It was us carriers who were all standing around at the distribution center waiting for the Times to wake up bring the bundles of papers, on all three (2007, 2008 and, to a marginally-lesser extent as I vaguely recall, 2009) "spring forward" Sundays that I've been a carrier.
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