Paper delivery boys & girls have always been exploited by offering this level of pay. Out in all weathers and the dark they deserve more, especially on a Sunday. With all the health & safety laws I am surprised they let kids do this work.
We're all doomed! Head for the hills before they start heading for you!
I don't know Daveb ... with third world child labour it is often the child's labour that keeps the family from starving. Delivering papers is not quite on a par with that I would have thought.
Then again, in principle the same holds I daresay ... We will buy jeans for £3.00 or 3 T-shirts for £7.50 (thereby effectively encouraging cheapest possible production costs) and by the same token, how much are we willing to pay to have our papers delivered?
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
If they deliver 350 copies an hour, that's £7 at 2p a copy. And many houses are probably flats - two or three copies at a time. And it must keep them in better shape than many teenagers.
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Posted - 07/01/2008 : 18:31:46
