Early mornings were my downfall as I had a 20 mile trip to school each day and left home too early to do a paper round. However, I got into the school holiday coverage, and although It was quite a large village, it was fairly compact so all the rounds were relatively short except for one. This took in the old village and had lots of LONG drives and large frontage to the houses. Papers in the UK are delivered to the door so this was one round I hated. The lad that did it had rich parents and they always seemed to be on holiday, so 2 weeks at Easter, a month in the summer and 2 weeks at christmas and I was doing a 15 mile paper round for the same money as those doing the mile long Local Housing estate. Only advantage was when you got to the Local "Lord of the manor", an old established family on a 15 acre estate with the Mansion set in the middle- up a 1 mile drive- uphill. Always got there as the Lord was going to his office and he would stop the car- take the one paper he wanted and get me to deliver the others to the Mansion. He would always give me a tip, and told me to go to the kitchen and have a glass of something for my troubles. That glass was normally freshly sqeezed orange juice, or on a hot day- home made ginger beer. By the way- They may have been monied families- but christmas tips were not great. Better pickings were had from the ordinary families.