Fort Worth Newspaper delivery Monday nights. You have a 24 hour window to finish the route. This is an 8 hour route.
Deadline for the deliveries 9 am on Tuesdays. If you take a second route, the deadline for the second route is 9 am on Wednesdays.
This is folding and delivering newspapers from your car window onto the yards of houses subscribers and also samples.
The route is the same each week. Sometimes we get a new subscriber, or someone goes on vacation and we must stop throwing their paper. Once you learn the route, it gets faster, about 8 hours total.
We need you to have excellent texting habits (replies within 20 minutes or so while on the route) and a working, charged, reliable cell phone.
Two hours before, during, and two hours after your deliveries, we need you to check and reply at least once and reply to any texts as we may have a question about a particular delivery. Rare, but it happens.
GPS tracking is used to confirm deliveries. Payment is each Friday by check. First check is delayed one week.
The routes are faster after the first solo delivery.
This will yield about $22 an hour on the route, plus another $40 for gas for each day. Normal driving speed on the route is 10 miles per hour. The pay is a flat rate per route, but it comes to $22 per hour.
You will be folding newspapers into baggies and throwing the papers out of your car window onto lawns. We provide a turn by turn list with addresses.
It can be fun, once you learn the route. You can listen to your music, audio lectures, comedy, perhaps learn another language or listen to audio books through your speakers.
You are an independent contractor, no taxes are deducted from your check. The work week ends on Thursday.
Each day it gets easier. One delivery day per week, but some carriers get a second and third route.
Compensation for this route is a flat rate of $140 plus $40 for gas. This is about $20 to 22 per hour + $40 for gas
The first day will take you five times longer than the fourth day, so we might not give you the entire route the first time you deliver.
As you learn the route and know which way to turn it will be easier and faster. Driving in the routes is about 10 mph through the neighborhoods of houses.
If you make a right turn instead of a left turn, that's going to take you 3 to 5 minutes longer each time to get back on track. But after two or three days delivering the same route by yourself, you will learn which way to turn and make no turn errors because it's the same path each time, and thus it will be faster.
If you are looking for a long term, simple, repeating income where you are out driving and enjoying the scenery, if you would rather sit in your car and drive (and fold newspapers and throw them) instead of sitting at a desk, then this might be a perfect match. This is not a full time job and can not be your only source of income. It's great for moms or anyone who can text and be independent. More than half of my carriers are moms who just need some extra money.
Please copy and paste and reply to these questions:
1. What kind of vehicle do you have and the year? (Example, "4 door Impala, 2019". A large 350 Ford is a bit big, and a motorcycle isn't big enough).
2. What kind of vehicle is your back-up vehicle? (You must have a back up vehicle. Things happen. You might have a flat tire or an older car might develop car trouble. )
3. Do you own both vehicles? (Some have a relative's vehicle on call if needed. But a friend's car in New York isn't going to help you.)
4. In what city do you live?
5. To help me match the best delivery area for you, what is a major intersection near your home? (two major streets that intersect near your home and the name of the city.)
6. Do you have a reliable cell phone with a good plan that can make and receive e-mails, texts and send photos?
7. Are you good at keeping your cell phone charged and replying to work related texts?
8. Will you check your phone for texts just before and for two hours after your deliveries?
9. Do you have any experience in newspaper delivery (which company?)
Note: Experience is not required.
10. How long would you like to keep the route if you like it? (until the end of the semester or indefinitely?)
11. Do you have proof of insurance in your name?
12. Have you ever won a game of tennis or ping pong? Can you bounce a basketball or catch and throw a tennis ball?
13. Do you have another job or school or any other obligation in the afternoon after you finish your route?
If yes, what time do you need to be finished with your route so that you can attend to your other responsibilities?
14. Can you pass a drug screen?
15. Jimmy is hired to drive a van load of ice cream from Florida to California. 90% of the way there, in the Nevada desert, Jimmy has a personal emergency, perhaps his best friend was in a car crash and now in the hospital, or Jimmy needs some personal time to meditate, so he abandons the van and the company has to hire someone else to fly to Nevada, clean out the melted ice cream and drive the van back. Question: Given that Jimmy drove the van 90% of the way to California, what percentage of the job should Jimmy be paid?
16. What other obligations do you have? Do you have a job, school, gym you must go to at a certain time?
If you do, what days and times must you take off and go do the other obligations?
17. Do you have another job? If yes, is it full or part time?
18. Do you understand the first time you deliver a route will take about five times longer than the fourth time?
Note: We do not pay for partially thrown routes.
First week:
Before you are given a route, we have training. You will be invited to ride on the route and see the route. You will be asked to fold papers in the back seat of the car and throw papers out the window to the houses and get an idea of the route are and how to deliver a route. If you finish riding the route during training three times, you will be paid $10 per hour for the folding for the three training days. This will be the same route that you will get to fold and deliver on your own.
If all goes well, then the fourth Monday you will be given that route.
Delivering newspapers requires independent responsibility. If you will not deliver your route, we require that you give 72 hours ‘notice, or you will not get any outstanding compensation, which will be used to hire an emergency carrier to throw your routes. This is because we need time to line up someone else to throw your route.
I have carriers who have been working for me for over ten years, they love it. Sometimes I don’t even see them for months. They get their papers, read and reply to texts, throw their routes, done. Some take multiple routes, this is all they want to do. It's independent, straight forward, pretty much the same thing every week. You can listen to your music, mp3 files, or just chill while getting some mild exercise making about $22 an hour to sit in your car, fold papers and throw them like Frisbee’s out of your car windows to the same houses every week. I have been doing this for 51 years, no kidding.
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