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Paper delivery is one of the most simple occupations. 

Papers and flyers are delivered to your place of residence and you have to insert the flyers into the Newspapers and than you either leave them as they are, or you can fold the paper and put an elastic band around it or even fold it and insert it into a plastic newspaper sleeve. After that, you load them into a wagon, an Oshawa This Week Newspaper over the shoulder bag, basically anything that will assist you in the delivering the newspaper. 

Every two weeks, I would go out with an envelope and a list of the customers who received the newspaper from me, and collect money for delivering their papers.

The hardest part of the job is the amount of exercise you receive from walking around the neighbourhood(s) you deliver to, and also the hours at which you start delivering, the times the papers arrive at your house and the work of inserting the flyers into the papers and the papers in the sleeves.

The most enjoyable part of the job is collecting after 2 weeks and having money of my own.

I deliver about 37 papers per day. A lot of customer interaction is involved. I've gotten and still get a lot of people skills from this job. Management is basic I can contact the office or my representative. Papers are dropped off at my curb 3 days a week I make the papers and I deliver. There are no co-workers involved. The hardest part is allowing people to refuse to pay you. Not even for good reason. People are allowed to simply refuse to pay their paper boy even if he's providing good service- which I always do. The enjoyable part is the customer interaction, it improves my people skills and gives me something to do with my day/

A normal day at my job was put papers the together and hand them out and interact with  the odd customer.

From this job i learned that it's in portent too communicate with an employer because there may be some thing in the flyer you are missing.

The hardest part of the job was making money because the only money i got was for tips and i had to make at least $20 in tips to pay for a fee any thing else I could keep.

The mos enjoyable part of my job was interacting with the people who i delivered to i heard all kinds of crazy stores and it was also nice getting to know some of them.

so basically i will put the papers together for the people i deliver them to i do this job with my sisters and take our wagons out to put the papers in and go to deliver we will drop them off at the houses and also after 3 weeks we will collect the most people pay is 6 dollars them we will wait to get paid by the company it self. the hardest part of this job is the weather especially winter because people dont shovel there sidewalks and we would have to drag a wagon threw it but the most enjoible is talking to the people and getting to know them.

I enjoy the sunshine, and all the exercise I get when I deliver the papers. I get to see my neighborhood and talk to people. Most of my customers are friendly, and that makes my day. The hardest part of my job is when the weather is bad. When it rains, it REALLY pours! In the winter my hands and toes get pretty cold, to the point where they feel numb. It's difficult pulling my paper cart through the knee high snow. There are some people that don't shovel their part of the sidewalk. But overall, I enjoy my job.

Delivering newspapers for Oshawa This Week was overall pretty great. The bundles would get dropped off in my driveway all the days i would have to deliver, and i would have to put the paper together with the flyers before continuing to drop them off. I didn’t get a guaranteed salary, but through collections some individuals would give more then the regular $6 for paper, meaning there were opportunities to make more money.

A typical day at work would be getting the papers when I came home, putting them together, rolling them and then delivering them. Sometimes the papers would come in late or I wouldn't get everything but I would just call in what was missing and do what I could with what I got. 
I learned to be efficient and do my best to get it done on time. The hardest part of the job would be when it was snowing really badly because then it would be a real hassle to get them delivered.

Three times a week you deliver newspapers, but beforehand you need to bundle them which is possibly one of the worst parts. Every three weeks you must collect payment from customers, though most do not pay but you are still expected to deliver their weekly papers. You get a lot of exercise which is nice, but not really any good payment for the work you're doing.

Twice a week I am responsible for assembling newspapers and delivering them to the houses on my route by 6pm, as well as collecting my payment from the residents once every 3 weeks. It's not a complicated job, but it helped me learn to manage my time better, and it's good pay for the time investment.

You usually get all the flyers ready and hand them out. I learned how to keep track of money. You work by your self or if you have a friend to come along for the walk is always nice. The hardest part of the job is its really lonely but a good experience with money and learning responsibility.

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