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Message: [QUOTE="BroadwayVa, post: 2429167, member: 6118"] Today parents may be arrested for the kind of abuse very young paper boys went through--some arose about 4 am to pick up the papers--and as you pointed out getting SOME customers to pay, and some to pay regularly, to a 9 year old and up, was terrible. All this before going to school day in /day out weather be damned you were expected to deliver, no excuse--bad cold/flu--I want my paper. And Sunday papers --if you didn't have a mule or a big sister to help--it was murder. Sunday papers were huge, huge, huge. Collecting was the tough part.. Mom paid the 25 cents per week , which was hard to dredge up, and opted for the extra 5 cents for life insurance on Dad. Some kids got a tip, maybe , for Xmas, some may get a gift-MAYBE--not like today where it's expected. [/QUOTE]