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I delivered WaPo as a teenager and never had too many problems with collections. Tough job if you can’t get your collections done though, and Sunday papers were the worst.

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Yeah, nobody ever tells you how bad Sunday is going to be.

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You were an industrious young kid!

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I have actually worked for 2 newspapers - remember when we lived in Garland? I actually worked for the Dallas Herald selling subscriptions. Then when I lived in Ann Arbor I worked on the line inserting those coupons and funnies into the Sunday paper there. You are right, it does suck.

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A great learning tool and learned how quickly you could be taken advantage of!

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