[Silver Girl]

I'm considering taking a job delivering junk mail, to bring in some extra cash.
Am I crazy?
I like walking with DS in the pram so thought I could earn something at the same time. How much would it pay and is it worth the hassle?
Any advice appreciated.

[Tikiboo16]

I did it for a little while many years ago.. it wasn't worth it. You spend hours walking around and get paid very little. Think it worked out to be about $5 an hour.. really pathetic. I think I ended up leaving large piles of pamphlets at unit blocks and didn't bother with many houses. There are better ways of bringing in extra cash.

[foxhill]

It's not worth it. In fact I often feel sorry for the people I see delivering them because I know they are being exploited.

A a kid (so, 20 odd years ago) I used to get paid $11.10 per 1000 pamphlets delivered (this included the time it took to fold them). I can't imagine it's much better today.

[Majeix]

I tried it. It was terrible I would never do it again. My daughter who was used to and loved long walks in the pram ended up screaming for ages... and cried at the sight of the pram for awhile. We only did it for one weekend and I left her home for about half of it...
It really didn't help that the district I did had a large hospital so to deliver to the right number of house meant a lot of walking jsut for one or two...

There was also all the folding that was horrible especially we tried to follow the rule we were given (that everyone else ignores) about how none of them can be folded together but must all be folded and put in separately.

[2plusoops]

I recently did it for a couple of months. Its not only the walking around delivering the catalogues, its also the several hours it takes to bundle them together. You might get 8-10 different catalogues delivered but they are in seperate bundles and you have to collate them before delivering. My biggest issue was not the time facator v. amount of pay (I figured any extra was a good thing) but I was consistently not being paid the correct amount. They missed one week, but never caught it up and then missed another. Whilst the money comes in handy its not enough to have to deal with not getting paid!!

[beccajayne]

I did it a few years ago and while I enjoyed the exercise each week, the pay is not worth it.
I had to deliver twice a week and each time I spent about 3-4hrs folding/sorting the pamphlets, then 4hrs delivering them.
During Christmas it was busy and it took twice as long.
Most weeks I'd get about $20-50
Christmas time was any where around $100-150

I was delivering for 2 different companies in 3 areas.

This post has been edited by beccajayne: 20/03/2012, 02:54 PM

[girltribe4]

I just finished my delivery for this week , 4hrs delivering 22 bits of junk mail to 300 houses for $72 Its sooooo not worth it but it keeps miss 3.5yrs in childcare twice a week and I am loosing weight

I actually love the walking bit , its the putting everything together I hate junk mail gets delivered Sunday , I put all the bits together all day Monday then deliver Tuesday morning. I do have till Wed eve to deliver but its suppose to rain tonight and tomorrow so I wanted to get it over and done with.

$72 is the most ever because it was 22 seperate bits its normally $42 /$54 a week.

Im just doing it as a stop gap as I am waiting on my FDC approval .

[fairylite]

If you go ahead and sign up for this, please please don't dump the catalogues in the bins at the local apartment block as happened to us a few times before I reported them. We need those for our recycling.

[foom]

When I did it we had to pick up the catalogues as well. You can't just stick a few catalogues on the pram - we found them very heavy carrying them in a backpack and had to keep going back to the car to get more, moving the car to the next street so it wasn't too far to go back for more, etc, etc. Not sure if the local paper would be any better than catalogues - lighter for each house so you would cover more distance before you have to go back and get more.

I soon realised why postfolk ride motorbikes.

[Bluenomi]

Don't do it, it is a nightmare. I did it as a kid and I ended up covered in newpaper ink and on a busy week it would take longer to fold everthing that it did to deliver it. Plus you have to do it no matter the weather so it sucked when it rained