Is the newspaper delivered/packaged in a plastic bag, or just the paper as is with a delivery label on it?

How many days on average do you receive the paper after it is published/mailed to you in Canada (Montreal specifically)

A few years ago, I delivered newspapers everyday for over 18 months straight in all-weather conditions with no days off during that time. Carriers not only carry their respective large local metropolitan newspapers but also the national ones as well, such as NY Times and Wall Street Journal on their route. I often had the lowest(and sometimes zero) number of monthly complaints in the warehouse. Picky complainers were one of the top reasons I finally quit. Other reasons being no vacation time for carriers and not enough pay for gas and wear and tear — the carrier uses their own vehicle and isn’t paid extra for those expenses.

Often times the large truck from the main newspaper printing building that carries pallets of newspapers, doesn’t arrive to surrounding distribution warehouses at a set time every day. Some days may be several minutes or even hour(s) late before it arrives for the carriers to start their work. Also, the carriers for most newspapers, such as at my warehouse have to manually add and fold seperate sections into each bag for the 100’s of newspapers for their route — which slows them down even more. Then, doing their daily mail(a list of starts/stops customer requests) easily slows them down as well.

The usual fat Sunday papers were the worst: more, bigger sections to manually add together, then fold and insert into sometimes required too-tight bags or any-size bags available at the warehouse. On Sundays, I used a full size truck with an 8 foot long bed and could barely carry them all. 400 Sunday papers x 5 pounds(or more) each paper = over 2000 pounds(1 ton) of extra weight to hand load paper by paper into truck bed. We had an option to leave some of the papers in the warehouse and make another trip to load up and drive back to our route–but, that would mean MORE late paper complaints!

As Paul Harvey used to say: ”And now you know… the rest of the story.”