We also had to collect from our customers for various magazine subscriptions and a $1000 life insurance policy that the Phila Evening Bulletin sold through its paperboys. I still remember the people who would stall on making 50¢ payments and make me come back several times before paying up.

BTW does anyone think there is a reasonably priced bicycle sold on the US market today that is suitable for 12-16 year old paperboys to deliver daily newspapers AND be good for all the other things a bicycle did for pre drivers license/non-chauffeured teens of the past?