Of the many duties that newspaper delivery jobs entail, the jobs that seem to carry the most responsibility in newspaper distribution and delivery are found in the newspaper delivery driver jobs. What it really comes down to is that without newspaper delivery driver jobs, there would be no newspaper delivery, there would probably not be any newspapers printed!
There are three key positions that newspaper delivery jobs fill. The first of these is the driver who makes sure that newspaper subscribers receive their papers daily. These drivers are commonly called “district managers” because they are each responsible for the carriers who do the actual delivery to subscribers. The district manager must rise very early to drive over to the printing plant and pick up the newspapers that are going to be delivered each day. Afterwords, the driver goes to the spot where each of his carrier stands are waiting for his or her batch for delivery that morning. While the carrier is making deliveries, the district manager receives complaints on his radios from customers who didn’t receive the papers that morning. After the carrier is done with delivery, the district manager will then drive to each home that didn’t receive a paper that morning.
The second key newspaper delivery job is one with the driver who delivers papers to the newsstands and news boxes. Like the district manager, this driver also has a designated region to cover. This driver also drives to the printing plant for the newspaper stands and boxes that need to be filled in the morning. When stocking the boxes, the driver is also collecting coins from purchases made the previous day. This driver then delivers the deposits, plus any remaining papers from the day before to the Street Sales office where the number of papers returned and the amount of money collected is accounted for.
The third position is, of all the newspaper delivery driver jobs, is the job that requires driving the longest distances. This driver is responsible as the one that delivers papers to communities that read the city newspaper many miles away. For example, if the driver is employed by the San Francisco Chronicle, he or she must drive far from the region to deliver papers to the service contractors that deliver and sell the Chronicle in those faraway communities. Because the goal is to deliver and sell the paper early in the morning, this driver starts their newspaper delivery route by starting work shortly after midnight to deliver an earlier edition of the paper so that it arrives on time. The job of this driver is to drive the distance, drop off the papers, and drive back home. That is pretty much the work day for that driver.