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This is folding and throwing newspapers out of your car window onto the yards of houses, like throwing Frisbee's.
The deliveries remain 99% the same each week, so once you learn the route, it gets faster.
You must have excellent email and texting through a working, charged, reliable cell phone.
GPS is used to confirm deliveries.
If you have experience delivering to homes, this is easier because you don't have to get out of your car, you just throw the paper on the yards. And the routes are the exact same every week, so it's much easier and faster after two or three times.
It takes about 6 hours once you know the route. The route stays the same, it gets easier. This will yield about $20 an hour, plus about $5 an hour for gas = 25 per hour. (Normal driving speed is 15 miles per hour).
The route list has directions which way to turn on your delivery route.
If you like throwing Frisbee's out of your car window, it can be fun, listen to your music, audio lectures, comedy, perhaps learn another language or listen to books through your speakers. I don't recommend watching a movie as you need to watch for traffic! But you can listen to whatever will not distract you from your driving.
You are an independent contractor, no taxes are deducted from your compensation. Payment is by Cashapp, Zelle or check.
Each day it gets easier. One delivery day per week. If you do great, then Tuesdays is an option for more routes.
Compensation for routes is about $22.50 per hour. Driving in the routes is 19 mph or slower. Some routes are smaller, some larger, so the pay is adjusted for route sizes. Some carriers get two routes after they master one, some get three or four and make $600 per week for the two days, depending on their route sizes. The first day takes longer due to wrong turns. If you make a right turn instead of a left turn, that's going to throw your time off. But two or three times delivering the same route path, you learn which way to turn without looking at the directions because it's the same path each time. The first day takes about two to three times longer than the fifth day (and on). 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!
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? (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.)
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? (Do not give an exact address, just give two major streets that intersect nearby and the name of the city.)
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. Do you have any experience in newspaper delivery (which company?)
Note: Experience is *not* required.
9. How long would you like to keep the route if you like it? (until the end of the semester or indefinitely?)
10. Do you have proof of insurance in your name?
11. Have you ever won a game of tennis or ping pong? Can you bounce a basketball or catch and throw a tennis ball?
12. 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?
13. Can you pass a drug screen?
14. 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 and 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?
Note: We do not pay for partially thrown routes.
First week:
Sunday: before you are given a route, on a Sunday, you will be asked to fold papers into baggies and then put those folded papers into clear trash bags (provided). This will take 3 hours.
The second day, a Monday, you will ride with a manager for one hour to learn how to read the route list.
The third day, a Tuesday, you will be given a one hour route to deliver on your own. A manager drive the same route afterwards to see how you did.
Same thing on Wednesday, but it will be a three hour route.
If all goes well, then the following Monday you will be given a full route.
Yes, this is a Monday route, except for the first week, which is training, which occurs on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
If you keep and deliver your route for the next six deliveries, then you will be retroactively paid a bonus to cover your training time at the beginning to the tune of $22.50 an hour.
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