wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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.

Try again Sheldon. 2$ a week was god money for a kid then and bike
maintenance was at most 1.50 a year back then (likely 1/2 that but
giving you the benefit of the doubt)


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