Deliver Newspapers Monday nights 8 hours from 9 pm to 6 am (if you take a one hour break).
Fort Worth area: Monday nights
This is folding and delivering newspapers from your car window onto the yards of houses subscribers and also samples.
The route is the same each week. Sometimes we get a new subscriber, or someone goes on vacation and we must stop throwing their paper. Once you learn the route, it gets faster.
Communication is by texts.
We need you to have excellent texting habits and a working, charged, reliable cell phone.
GPS tracking is used to confirm deliveries. 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. Each work week ends Fridays at 5 pm. Checks are issued 7 days later, every week, every Friday afternoon at 5 pm or by Zelle or bank transfer.
Driving in the routes is about 13 mph through the neighborhoods of houses, so for 8 hours, the route is about 95 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. More than half of my carriers have been moms who just need some extra money.
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". A large 350 Ford is a bit big, and a motorcycle isn't big enough).
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? (Some have a relative's vehicle on call if needed. But a friend's car in New York isn't going to help you. If you get a route, you will be asked to pick up your papers on the second day to prove you actually have a back up vehicle. You can drive straight to your primary vehicle and transfer the papers to it immediately if you want, but there needs to be a back up vehicle in case you get a flat - or any other reason - with your main vehicle.)
4. In what city do you live?
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?
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 any other obligation in the afternoon after you finish your route?
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, perhaps his best friend was in a car crash and now in the hospital, or Jimmy needs some personal time to meditate, so he abandons the van. The company has to hire someone else to fly to Nevada, clean out the melted ice cream and drive the van back. Question: Given that Jimmy drove the van 90% of the way to California, what percentage of the job should Jimmy be paid?
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 two times longer than three 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. Do not start a route unless you intend to finish the route. 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 work history for the last five years. (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, we have training. You will be invited to ride on the route with another carrier and see the route for 20 minutes. Then, on another day, for training, you will be asked to fold papers in the back seat of the car and throw papers out of the back right window to the houses for your entire route. If you finish riding the route with the carrier for two full route deliveries, you will be paid $20 per hour retroactively. This will be the same route that you will get to fold and deliver on your own.
If all goes well, then the third day of delivery you will be given that route and your compensation will be for the route based on how long it took to deliver the route by previous carriers the route will pay a flat rate.
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.
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 texts, throw their routes, and then get paid the following Friday eleven days later. Some carriers have multiple routes. For some, this is all they want to do. It's independent, straight forward, pretty much the same thing every week. You can listen to your music, mp3 files, or just chill while getting some mild exercise making about $25 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 a week.
Candidates providing a phone number are considered first.
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