This is a great thread! Thanks to everyone for sharing their stories, I've enjoyed reading.
I myself was born after everyone here retired from their routes. I've never seen a kid deliver a paper in my life, always adults in cars. On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 5:17:26 PM UTC-4 Joe Bernard wrote: > I worked in the mailroom at a newspaper stuffing ad sheets. One day the > publisher gave us a tour of the building and asked what a paper was in > business to do. Everyone else offered stuff about journalism and I said "To > sell advertising." > > "Joe gets it." > > Joe Bernard > > On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 2:01:33 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> I'm surprised at the number of ex-paperboys and enjoyed the stories. I do >> remember the Sunday Washington Post from the 1980s; about 8 lb of >> needlessly pulped wood, about 1/2 of it advertising supplements. The >> present Albuquerque Journal Sunday edition is about as thick as a low-news >> weekday edition from 30 years ago. >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7074332c-3b6e-407d-aac8-ca9581fd9654n%40googlegroups.com.
