about delivering newspapers ?

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  1. chenyuzhou's Avatar
    • New Member
    about delivering newspapers ?
    I am very interested and eager to find a part time jobs as delivering newspapers (to subscribers),or similar jobs

    Anybody can tell me how can I apply for
    these kind of jobs in the local area where I will study ?

    how I can contact local newspapers (perferablly on the web)
    who need person to send newspapers
    or comercials/advertisements to the subscribers ??

    THX a lot!
  2. flipshot's Avatar
    • Vengeful, Imperial Overlord of The Student Room
    • Location: Hertfordshire
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    If you want to deliver daily newspapers like the sun, daily mail etc then this is normally done by the newsagents. So simply just go in and ask them.

    If you want to deliver the free/local weekly papers then phone the number for distribution which you should be able to find in the front of the paper.

    Some free/local newspapers have email addresses but I found they don't check them often so it is much better to phone
  3. Two Tone's Avatar
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    • Location: Cambridge
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    For the local papers they'll put so on a waiting list for your area, and then they'll phone up later and say they've got a round for you
  4. chenyuzhou's Avatar
    • New Member
    THX a lot!

    usually how about the hourly payment rate for delivering
    daily and weekly (free) newspapers ?
  5. blueprints's Avatar
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    Well I used to only get £15 per week for doing it every morning! Though actually I loved it, so long long as you're a "morning person".
  6. flipshot's Avatar
    • Vengeful, Imperial Overlord of The Student Room
    • Location: Hertfordshire
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    I got paid £6.10 for the papers which took about an hour to do plus I got extra for leaflets but not much about 50-60p for each type. Sorting the leaflets ended up taking longer to do that the actual papers some weeks.
  7. emma155's Avatar
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    My sister has been delivering a local newspaper, she got £26.50 for 700 newspapers that has to be delivered within a week, although it's a monthly paper! Personally I think she got ripped off, and she gave it up when they also told her to put 700 leaflets inside the papers, and deliver all of those aswell, when the pay packet came alon she had got paid exactly the same amount, nothing extra for the leaflets!
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