Sept. 4 - Today is "Newspaper Carrier Day"

9-4-09 | kingattax

[kingattax]

Newspaper Carrier Day is celebrated in the United States and honors Barney Flaherty, the first newspaper carrier (or paperboy) hired in 1833, as well as all current newspaper carriers. It is celebrated on September 4, the anniversary of Flaherty's hiring by Benjamin Day, publisher of the New York Sun.

[Doogle]

"I know"

[kingattax]

lol

[TSgt]

I had 3 paper routes when I was in the 3rd grade and made every effort to porch the paper. For some of my elderly customers I would go so far as to lay the paper on a table next to their door or hang it on the door so they didn’t have to bend down to pick it up. My excellent service usually resulted in generous tips.

After a year long battle I finally canceled my local paper, The Cincinnati Enquirer. The paper was always thrown in the front drainage ditch and was soaked. I simply asked for it to be thrown in the yard or driveway but it was too much to ask. They fired the first carrier and hired a new one who did the same. I took pictures, contacted the editor, route managers, etc.. The result was always the same, a wet paper in the ditch.

Today’s carriers stink.

Mike

[trisham]

What is a “newspaper”?

[smokingfrog]

Remember when there used to be a morning edition and evening edition of the newspaper? I used to deliver both of them. Entrepreneur at an early age.

Now it's just a bum selling the paper at the street corner or some dude in a pickup truck throwing your newspaper who knows where.

[Clay Moore]

Everyone please celebrate by canceling the newspaper, if you haven’t already.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboys_Strike_of_1899

The Newsboys Strike of 1899 was a youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer’s and William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers compensated their child labor force. The strike lasted two weeks, causing Pulitzer’s New York World to reduce its circulation from 360,000 to 125,000.[1] The strike was successful in increasing the amount newsboys received by selling papers.[2]