Deliver Newspapers Monday nights 8 hours from 10 pm to 6 am Tuesday mornings. You can start and finish earlier, but deadline is 6 am Tuesday. It is easier to deliver the papers at night due to less traffic.
Fort Worth area: Monday nights
This is folding and delivering newspapers from your car. Throwing papers from your car onto the yards of houses. This includes subscribers and also samples to the driveways of houses. If they tell us to stop sampling them, then we will not give them a free sample anymore.
The routes are the same each week. Sometimes we get a new subscriber. Sometimes someone goes on vacation or calls in for us to stop sampling them. Ok, no problem. We stop giving them a paper. Very simple. Once you learn the route, it gets much faster because you know the driving directions from memory after about three to five weeks.
Communication is by texts, so texting is very important. It's much nicer to send and receive texts than to have to go in for some meeting. I don't know why some businesses have those long meetings. Like an hour to give over information that could be sent in a short text.
We need you to have excellent texting habits and a working, charged, reliable cell phone. Not that many texts, but some to find out if you have started your routes, confirming new subscribers (if any) or "Do Not Throw" requests (if any) and letting me know when you have finished.
GPS tracking is used to confirm streets being sampled. Also auditors will go out and check every route ten streets every time you deliver. Payment is each Friday by check. First check is delayed one week, then you get a check every Friday.
You will be folding newspapers into baggies and throwing the papers out of your car window onto house lawns.
We provide a turn by turn list with addresses. Baggies are provided free of charge.
It can be fun, once you learn the route. You can listen to your music, audio lectures, comedy, perhaps learn another language or listen to audio books through your speakers.
You are an independent contractor, no taxes are deducted from your check. Work week cycles on Thursday nights. Checks are issued 7 days later, every week, every Friday afternoons at 5 pm or by Zelle or bank transfer, whatever works for you.
Driving in the routes is about 7 to 9 miles per hour through the neighborhoods of houses, so for a 7 hour route, the route is about 63 miles long.
If you are looking for a long term, simple, repeating income where you are out driving and enjoying the scenery, if you would rather sit in your car and drive (and fold newspapers and throw them) instead of sitting at a desk, then this might be a perfect match. It burns slightly more calories than walking, but not as many as jogging. It's great for moms or anyone wants extra income.Many of my carriers have been moms who just need some extra money.This is an activity which involves some energy. It is not a desk job. You will burn some fun calories -I say "fun" because your mind is free - at your own pace - while sitting in your car folding papers, throwing them out of your car window like Frisbee's and listening to your music. Half of my carriers are women. Some of them moms with kids. Some of them independent workers who like to work alone and make $25 per hour. Some are men who like to do the same thing every week, low stress, predictable work.
Most other jobs steal your mind. You can't think about anything else. You have to pay attention to the customers, or the book-keeping. You can't think about anything but the details of what you are doing while doing the task. Even teachers have to focus on specific material and their students. Those teachers are not free to think about other things which may be more important to them at the moment. Imagine the poor Calculus teacher. They mastered Calculus a long time ago. Now they are stuck having to teach Calculus to kids who would rather be anywhere else. Ok, this job is like that for the first day, maybe the first three weeks.
But after two, three, or four weeks (one day a week), your mind is free to think about other creative things, or whatever you want to think about. Listen to lectures of history, or politics, or your favorite podcast, or hundreds of audio books. It's a huge difference in quality of life. It's freedom. But you gotta get to about the third or fifth week of doing this to get there, because the first two or three or four deliveries (four days) you are learning the traffic directions. Then it's freedom, year after year. If you want to be smarter by having free time to think, or listen to lectures, this is the job for you. If you want to hear comedy, or listen to hours and hours of your favorite music, this is the job for you. The physical activity of the folding and throwing of the papers actually helps you think clearly while you drive. I've heard yoga is something like that, except you don't have to wear skin tight ballet suits while bending over in a crowd. Nothing against yoga, I don't know much about it. Good luck getting paid to do yoga. And if you get paid to do yoga, it's to put up with a bunch of people who don't know how to do the yoga, so, if you love yoga, maybe don't be an yoga instructor.
Please copy and paste and reply to these questions:
1. What kind of vehicle do you have and the year? (Example, "4 door Impala, 2019".
2. What kind of vehicle is your back-up vehicle? (You must have a back up vehicle. Things happen. You might have a flat tire or an older car might develop car trouble.)
3. Do you own both vehicles? Do you have another you can use to finish your route? There needs to be a back up vehicle in case you have a problem with your car. You will need to finish your route and tend to your vehicle after your route. So this isn't a good match for someone who has a car that breaks down frequently, or if you can't change a tire.
4. In what city do you live? (Believe it or not, I get applications from candidates more than one hour away.)
5. To help me match the best delivery area for you, what is a major intersection near your home? (two major streets that intersect near your home.)
6. Do you have a reliable cell phone with a good plan that can make and receive e-mails, texts and send photos?
7. Are you good at keeping your cell phone charged and replying to work related texts?
8. Will you check your phone for texts just before, during, and for two hours after your deliveries? (Once or twice a year I need to confirm a particular delivery.)
9. Do you have any experience in newspaper delivery (which company?)
Note: Experience is not required.
10. How long would you like to keep the route if you like it? (until the end of the semester or indefinitely?)
11. Do you have proof of insurance in your name?
12. Can you bounce a basketball?
13. Do you have another job or school or daycare or any other obligation that may take priority over your deliveries?
If yes, what time do you need to be finished with your route so that you can attend to your other responsibilities?
14. Can you pass a drug screen?
15. Jimmy is hired to drive a van load of ice cream from Florida to California. 90% of the way there, in the Nevada desert, Jimmy has a personal emergency, Jimmy needs some personal time to meditate or he has a "friend" who had an accident and went into a comma and called Jimmy to come stay in the waiting room during a critical surgical procedure. (This happens a lot to new carriers on their first day, and they can't text us until 36 hours later! We've had about 35 such cases. Not kidding.) So he abandons the van. The company has to hire someone else at triple expense to fly to Nevada, clean out the melted ice cream and drive the van back to Florida. Question: Given that Jimmy drove the van 90% of the way to California, what percentage of the job should Jimmy be paid? (Hint: Most people answer 90%!)
16. What other obligations do you have? Do you have a job, school, gym you must go to at a certain time?
If you do, what days and times must you take off and go do the other obligations?
17. Do you have another job? If yes, is it full or part time?
18. Do you understand the first time you deliver a route will take about four times longer than five weeks later?
19. Important: If you take the papers, we are counting on you to finish your deliveries in a timely manner. Imagine taking a pizza to deliver, but instead of delivering it, you drive away with it, or leave it under the stop sign at the corner near the house who ordered the pizza. Do not start a route unless you intend to finish the route. >b>Do you understand that if you take the papers and start the route, but do not finish the route before leaving the route, you will not be paid anything?
20. Will this be your first job? If not, please give a very very very brief work history for the last five years. Like less than 10 words. It's really none of my business, I'm just trying to distinguish between young men who have been "couch retired" versus someone who just simply needs something more independent from Billy the young manager who manages with a taser. (It's ok if you have been raising kids or something like that, that is also good.)
21. When you buy gas for your car, do you pay at the pump or go inside? (some people do not know how to buy gas).
First week:
Before you are given a route, you will be invited to tour the route with another carrier and see the route for 10 to 15 minutes.
If you want to bring your husband or perhaps a friend you don't like on the tour, great! Maybe they will want the route instead of you, all good, I don't care, I just need the route thrown by someone who I can count on.
Delivering newspapers requires independent responsibility. If you will not deliver your route, we require that you give 48 hours ‘notice', or you will not get any outstanding compensation, which will be used to hire an emergency carrier to throw your routes. This is because we need time to line up someone else to throw your route. If you like to change jobs on a whim, or if you like take vacations without letting me know, this is not a good match.
I have carriers who have been working for me for over ten years, they love it. Sometimes I don’t even see them for months. They get their papers on their own, read and reply to the company related texts. For example, "Did you finish your route?" or, "When do you plan to throw your route." or "It's 8 hours past the deadline, are you going to start today?" My long time carriers just throw their routes, text me how much I owe them for the week on Thursdays and then they get paid the following Fridays eight days later, every week. Some carriers have multiple routes as this is all they want to do. It's independent, low stress, straight forward, pretty much the same thing every week. You can listen to your music, mp3 files, or just chill while getting some exercise making about $25 to fold papers and throw them like Frisbee’s out of your car windows to the same houses every week. Note: This is not a full time job. This is one, maybe two, maybe three days or four days a week. At first, it will only be one day a week. If you like the work, more can be added once you know how to fold the papers and throw them out of the window.
Candidates providing a phone number are considered first.
I need a phone number to text you.
Please reply to:
Please write, "I would be happy with $25 an hour driving my car about 8 miles an hour, folding and throwing newspapers." (Over half of the candidates who actually get to their third week want more than $25 an hour to fold and deliver newspapers from their car going about 8 miles per hour. For them, this is not a good match.)
Some routes are 7 hours long. Some routes are smaller and some are bigger. The compensation is based on how many hours the route takes. If it takes 5 hours, that's $125. If it takes 10, that's $250. If it takes 15, that's $375. If you have routes that take 30 hours, that's $750 and you will be allowed more time to finish.