I was a paperboy AMA

This is the reason I never stuck with it.

I didn't have any issue delivering the damn things. Collecting money......no fun and took a while.

This newspaper was delivered for free which is weird now that I think about it. I can't think of how it would be funded. Just by advertisements? Donations? Tax subsidies? It was just a local one for the area but still. They just give you addresses to deliver to and a highlighted map of the area with your bundle. I've never thought about how it's actually sustained

What is the weirdest thing you saw during your deliveries?

This isn't totally obscene but the weirdest thing I saw is the attitudes of the old people. They expect their free paper to go into their mailbox a certain way. If you don't listen they will wait outside their mailbox until you come by to give you a telling off.

IIRC some old lady had an average mailbox like this. She didn't want the paper folded in half to go into the bottom half. She wanted it as a perfect circle in the half round bit. She ended up blocking off the bottom slot with rocks just so you could only put it into the top. That's easily one of the funniest/weirdest stories I have doing it.

Also did you have to get up real early?

Personally no. My parents did sometimes just to tackle the rural areas because you can get away with driving wildly when nobody is around. It makes it easy for swinging around and doing uey's without having to deal with traffic. We were basically covering most of the town + a bit out of it from Friday afternoon to Monday morning. It's not a lot of money but you do meet some good people and it's better than being a shut-in over the weekends.

I did but I still had to wear a rainjacket and do it anyway

I didn't have a dog. You could say it was dog gone.