The Teesside Times

Yarmblue said:
I'm time served TT. Used to deliver about 180 around Yarm. On a good day would take about 1 and half hours.
Had to go home half way through to refill bag. When first full the strap felt like it was cutting into my shoulder.
I used to love the leaflets. Meant more money. Used to be an extra 60p per bundle of leaflets.
A lady would drop them off at my house on a Wednesday night along with my envelope of cash from the week before.
Would try and get them done before School. Hands were absolutely filthy afterwards.
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Yes. Remember coming back home with black hands from all the ink on the papers. You definitely needed a good bag with a decent strap to try and avoid the shoulder pain!
 
Wow....this is a memory jerker...me and my mate used to deliver these round a tough estate...
On a Wed morning a car used to turn up at our mams House and dump close to 3 million papers with about 4.6 million inserts
We had bags that were so tightly packed we had to lean over almost horizontally to stay stood up.
Slave labour..it really was...!! 2 quid and an extra quid if you went round with inserts...
Savaged by nasty dogs regularly
It made me the man I am however....
I'm also afraid to say it got so bad we used to occasionally dump.a full bag.
Happy days

Maybe....
 
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