why don't kids deliver newspapers anymore? [freakonomics]
august 09, 2006 @
09:06
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i had an afternoon paper route when i was a kid, but up here in the cities our paper boy is always some dude in a van or something. i can't imagine some kid on a skateboard delivering papers at 5am. did that really used to happen? i'm pretty sure our little neighborhood paper is delivered by kids, so that's something.
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/07/31/why-is-it-that-adults-now-deliver-newspapers/
Libby thought:
Nope - even our neighborhood paper is delivered by adults. They both take a side of the street and when they're done they meet at the corner and move on to the next street. Sometimes they have smoke while they're waiting, so I know they (should) be older than 18.