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1. Author: GG Riva Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 15:42 My parents worked on a farm with long hours and low pay, so regular pocket money wasn`t something I ever got or asked for. When I was 13, I got a morning paper round. I had around 60 customers and was paid 10 shillings (50p) for Mon - Sat and 4 shillings (20p) for the Sunday. Many customers bought 2 or even 3 Sunday papers and the bag weighed a ton. 😰 That might not seem like a lot, but it was just 2 bob (10p) for kids to watch the Pars back then. My son did a paper round for a year in the mid 90s and earned considerably more than I did, but newspapers had increased dramatically in the intervening years. Do we still have paper boys/girls nowadays, and if so, how much can they earn per week? Not your average Sunday League player. Reply
2. Author: jake89 Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 15:44 I`m amazed when I see physical papers nowadays. I suspect it`s mainly older people buying them. The Press is much thinner than it used to be and is mainly adverts. Reply
3. Author: widtink Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 16:25 The press hasn`t been the same since they downsized it in my opinion. Admin Reply
4. Author: DJAS Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 16:50 I was £7 for Mon-Sat. They don’t have any round our way nowadays there isn’t enough to demand to a newspaper Predictor league winner 2012/2013 Reply
5. Author: parsfan Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 16:55 Fridays...Press day in the late 70s. The bag was more than twice as heavy as any other day and the ink just oozed off of them so you came home looking like you`d done a shift down the mine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The universe is ruled by chance and indifference Reply
6. Author: Buspasspar Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 17:00 Aye GG there are still paper boys and girls around my town most on bikes .. but some getting driven around by their Mam or Dad at breakneck speeds :-o)) Was never a paper boy masel .. but got a Saturday job delivering the butcher meat .. no cold storage on the bike .. 9 bob for the Saturday .. but had to clean all the machines .. ham .. mince .. dripping .. et al We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply
7. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 17:49 Did a morning and an evening paper round, the latter was the sports papers. Best time was Christmas for the tips, the guy in Queensferry Road must have been a millionaire, very generous!💰💰💰 Thought I was doing alright with wages from Elders till I covered a round down the Married Quarters, some negotiations were required. And no OMO jokes!🤔🙈 Reply
8. Author: twin par Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 22:23 Remember the press being so large,that you had to put on the floor to read it!😆Your arms just about fell off,trying to hold it up! Reply
9. Author: AdamAntsParsStripe Date: Fri 6th Mar 2026. 23:15 Did the Camdean round for a few years for £4 a week. Loved it apart from the Sunday, heavy bag day. RS McColls binned me as I wouldn’t deliver to a house with a mad dog in the garden 3 weeks running. Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte Reply
10. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sat 7th Mar 2026. 08:44 Used to do McColls in Dalgety Bay, think there was about 10-15 of us and we got about £12-15 a week in early noughties. Was 7 days a week though! Will concur about the Sundays - brutal - 2 bags jam packed and unable to get half the papers through the doors! Reply
11. Author: JTH123 Date: Sat 7th Mar 2026. 10:22 LochgellyAlbert, Fri 6 Mar 17:49 Did a morning and an evening paper round, the latter was the sports papers. Best time was Christmas for the tips, the guy in Queensferry Road must have been a millionaire, very generous!💰💰💰 Thought I was doing alright with wages from Elders till I covered a round down the Married Quarters, some negotiations were required. And no OMO jokes!🤔🙈 Can mind of Elders but not where it was. Was it at the Parkgate shops? Reply
12. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 7th Mar 2026. 10:40 Presumably at some point the old saying `he looks like he`s had a hard paper round` will become obsolete! Reply
13. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Sat 7th Mar 2026. 15:33 JTH123, Sat 7 Mar 10:22 LochgellyAlbert, Fri 6 Mar 17:49 Did a morning and an evening paper round, the latter was the sports papers. Best time was Christmas for the tips, the guy in Queensferry Road must have been a millionaire, very generous!💰💰💰 Thought I was doing alright with wages from Elders till I covered a round down the Married Quarters, some negotiations were required. And no OMO jokes!🤔🙈 Can mind of Elders but not where it was. Was it at the Parkgate shops? Elders at Parkgate just up from Clydesdale Bank, next to fish shop. Reply
14. Author: KAPP-Par Date: Sun 8th Mar 2026. 20:39 Used to sell/ deliver the sporting post on a Saturday night back in the day. It was brilliant we’d get dropped off around all the pubs. even the bingo hall in Cowdenbeath/ lochgelly having to wait between games to sell the papers, then into the racewall where we’d get to see the banger racing. It was amazing paper round that’s for sure Reply
15. Author: AdamAntsParsStripe Date: Sun 8th Mar 2026. 23:49 KAPP-Par, Sun 8 Mar 20:39 Used to sell/ deliver the sporting post on a Saturday night back in the day. It was brilliant we’d get dropped off around all the pubs. even the bingo hall in Cowdenbeath/ lochgelly having to wait between games to sell the papers, then into the racewall where we’d get to see the banger racing. It was amazing paper round that’s for sure I did both the Sporting post and The Edinburgh Pink Paper. Had a van though that my driver Ramsay Kessler drove me around the pubs mostly Steeelend, Saline, Oakley and these places. If Rangers lost, I knew it’d be a bad night lol Bobby Robertson former Pars player would always buy one in Limekilns though as I was never without my Pars scarf. Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte Post Edited (Sun 08 Mar 23:50) Reply
16. Author: Playup_Pompey Date: Mon 9th Mar 2026. 13:37 had couple of different ones. Helped my cousin with his occationally when was a shop on corner of Townhill road/Lennie street (cant remember name of it). Had a weekend round from Headwell shop when Kevin Barnes owned it, horror round of headwell road/royal scott way/Broomhead park/broomhead flats. Moved to deliver from shop in town covered down brucefield, around town and up to Barbour grove. Was very well looked after. Reply
17. Author: PARrot Date: Mon 9th Mar 2026. 17:44 I remember your dad and his sidekick. I lived on Urqahurt Farm for a couple of months and they let me help milking the cows. I had a paper round for short spells in the early 70s in Baldridgeburn. I did that for a break from the earlier rises to deliver milk. We were up at 4am and running non stop til 8.30, getting changed in the van and dropped of at school. Did that every morning through 2nd year to 5th year. We effectively ran at least a half marathon every morning, carrying crates and baskets. We were fit as f... Reply

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