Coincidentally, I was just thinking about my old paper route last night!
I delivered “The Bulletin” (which eventually folded). I made 2 cents per daily paper and 6 cents per the Sunday paper. I had 44 customers and they were the toughest people on the planet to collect their weekly bill from. I typically had at least 8 to 10 customers that were behind by anywhere from 2 to 5 weeks, so I had to pay their bill every Saturday morning out of my own pocket until I could eventually extract their long overdue payments from them. I only made $3 at Christmas time from those 44 tightwads! Needless to say, I was so glad to finally quite that paper route (though I missed seeing Debbie and Virginia on that route).