On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 17:17:28 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-09-01 5:11 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>> I never said I made $60,000 delivering papers. I had three adjacent
>>> routes, about 150 customers. We didn't walk, we knew how to ride a
>>> bicycle. With 3 routes I made about $30 each per week, plus tips, and
>>> very good tips at XMas. I never had a problem getting paid. Most
>>> long time customers paid monthly so I didn't need to bother them every
>>> week.
>>
>> The average income for men in 1950 was 90$ a week.
>> https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/p...ages/1950-1959
>>
>> The average cost of newspapers was 5 cents. Subscription was less. THat
>> at most generous is .28 per week thenper customer. Thats a total BILL
>> at most of 42 dollars a week for 150 people. No way they tipped you in
>> addition a little over the cost of the paper per person.
>>
>> What you may have made was at top end, 10$ a week. That is very top end
>> though and would involve 1cent per paper with 7 day a week delivery in
>> tips.
>>
>> Reality? 3-5$ tops a week.
>
>Newspapers were a dime and the weekly subscription was 50 cents. My 40
>customer route only grossed $20, and then I had to pay for the papers.
>I would be lucky to get $2 per week. Tips, if I got them were like 5 or
>10 cents.
>
You're so full of canuck shit there are brown stains on your pillow
from your ears. I started delivering papers in 1955, no 12 year old
would deliver 30 papers seven days a week for $2... wouldn't cover
bicycle maintenence. And I don't believe you ever delivered papers,
no kid delivered papers by walking, not even in NYC where population
density is as dense as dense gets.